William Hootkins actor
- All known tv series 29
- Total known movies 82
William Michael Hootkins was born on July 5, 1948, in Dallas, Texas. He moved to London, England in the early 70s and lived there up until 2002. Hootkins was an actor at Theatre Intime while attending Princeton University where he learned how to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. He also trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and attended St. Marks, where he was in the same theater group as Tommy Lee Jones. The imposingly bulky and heavyset Hootkins first began acting in films and TV shows alike in the mid 70s. His more noteworthy parts include the first of the Rebel fighter pilots to get killed while attacking the Death Star in Star Wars, scientist Topols bumbling oaf assistant in Flash Gordon, Major Eaton, sent by the US government in Raiders of the Lost Ark, one of Rod Steigers demented sons in American Gothic, a corrupt police lieutenant in Batman, a disgusting sleazy voyeur in Hardware, a coarse South African police chief in Dust Devil, the mysterious and duplicitous Mr. X in Hear My Song, a haughty corporate executive in Death Machine, Santa Claus in Like Father, Like Santa, and an opera-singing vampire in The Breed. Moreover, Hootkins had small parts in two Pink Panther pictures hes a taxi driver in both The Trail of the Pink Panther and Curse of the Pink Panther.Among the TV shows he did guest spots on are Yanks Go Home, Agony, Play for Today, Tales of the Unexpected, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, Brett Maverick, Cagney and Lacey, Taxi, Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, Poirot, Chancer, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The Tomorrow People, The West Wing, and Absolute Power. Hootkins received many accolades for his outstanding performance as Sir Alfred Hitchcock in Terry Johnsons hit play Hitchcock Blonde. In addition to his substantial film and TV credits, Hootkins was also a popular and prolific voice artist who recorded dozens of plays for BBC Radio Drama; he supplied the voices for such iconic individuals as Orson Welles, J. Edgar Hoover, and Winston Churchill. William Hootkins died of pancreatic cancer on October 23, 2005. IMDb Mini Biography
James Hoffman
Movie 1989
Party Guest
Movie 1979
Capt. Cornelius Beyman
Movie 1992
Commander Hunt (voice)
Movie 1993
Starbucks (voice)
Movie 2000
Teddy
Movie 1987
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Movie 1992
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Movie 1995
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Movie 1992
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Movie 1991
Earl Linton
Movie 1986
Postman
Movie 1977
August T. Mirch
Movie 1987
Santa Claus
Movie 1998
Little Bilham
Movie 1977
Walter Adams
Movie 1985
1st. Punter
Movie 1980
Movie 2003
Senor Balustrade (voice)
Movie 2002
Julian Reilly
Movie 1993
Winston Churchill
Movie 1981
Al
Movie 1995
Charles Frohman
Movie 1978
Kono's Henchman
Movie 1973
Caliban
Movie 1982
Cardinal Verucci
Movie 1991
The Man
Movie 1997
U.S. Embassy Photographer
Movie 1979
Lloyd Edens
Movie 1978
Party Guest
Movie 1976
Mel
Movie 1981
Uncle George
Movie 2002
Lou Delmart
Movie 1984
Kolossov
Movie 1980
Narrator (voice)
Movie 1999
Chester Harcourt
Tv 1982
Eugene Field
Tv 1981
Peter Bligh
Tv 1979
Tv 1982
Tv 1978
Frank Garvin
Tv 1972
Tv 1976
Lou Delmart
Tv 1984
FBI Agent Burt
Tv 1989
Frank Dorr
Tv 1983
Commander (voice)
Tv 2001
Reverend Dewey
Tv 1978
Voice of Methuselah
Tv 1974
U.S. Translator
Tv 1999
Liquor Authority Agent
Tv 1978
Loch Ness Monster (voice)
Tv 1994
Hamilton Betts
Tv 1983
Karl Goldman
Tv 1981
Crimson Dynamo (voice)
Tv 1994
Narrator
Tv 1997
Willoughby Guzzler
Tv 1987
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Tv 2000
Harry Chester
Tv 1979
Mr. Bowles
Tv 1974
