Bain Boehlke, a prolific veteran Minneapolis actor who appeared in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning film Fargo, has passed away.
Boehlke, a fixture in the Twin Cities theater scene for decades, died on Sept. 11, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune. The actor was in a Minneapolis hospice for the second time after an aggressive cancer returned, per the outlet.
Boehlke was born in northern Minnesota in 1939. A lover of theater since childhood, Boehlke joined the Children’s Theatre Company in 1965 after attending the University of Minnesota. He spent over a dozen years with the company, rising to associate artistic director…