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

Kino niedostępny od William Hootkins

Monkeys

James Hoffman

Film 1989

The Lady Vanishes

Party Guest

Film 1979

Dust Devil

Capt. Cornelius Beyman

Film 1992

The Cement Garden

Commander Hunt (voice)

Film 1993

Animated Epics: Moby Dick

Starbucks (voice)

Film 2000

American Gothic

Teddy

Film 1987

Predators of the Wild: Lion

Narrator

Film 1992

Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula

Narrator

Film 1993

Predators of the Wild: Shark

Narrator

Film 1992

Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear

Narrator

Film 1993

Predators of the Wild: Wolf

Narrator

Film 1993

Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators

Narrator

Film 1994

Predators of the Wild: Hawk

Narrator

Film 1993

Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear

Narrator

Film 1992

Predators of the Wild: Tiger

Narrator

Film 1993

Predators of the Wild: Snake

Narrator

Film 1993

Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard

Narrator

Film 1992

Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale

Narrator

Film 1992

Predators of the Wild: African Survival

Narrator

Film 1994

Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive

Narrator

Film 1995

Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted

Narrator

Film 1992

Predators of the Wild: Bats

Narrator

Film 1991

A State of Emergency

Earl Linton

Film 1986

Come Back, Little Sheba

Postman

Film 1977

U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart

August T. Mirch

Film 1987

Like Father, Like Santa

Santa Claus

Film 1998

The Ambassadors

Little Bilham

Film 1977

Zina

Walter Adams

Film 1985

Hussy

1st. Punter

Film 1980

Mars: Pioneering the Planet

Film 2003

Hamilton Mattress

Senor Balustrade (voice)

Film 2002

The Milky Life

Julian Reilly

Film 1993

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

Winston Churchill

Film 1981

Funny Bones

Al

Film 1995

The Lost Boys

Charles Frohman

Film 1978

Big Zapper

Kono's Henchman

Film 1973

The Tempest

Caliban

Film 1982

The Pope Must Diet

Cardinal Verucci

Film 1991

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

The Man

Film 1997

Charlie Muffin

U.S. Embassy Photographer

Film 1979

The Billion Dollar Bubble

Lloyd Edens

Film 1978

The Paradise Run

Party Guest

Film 1976

Before Water Lilies

Mel

Film 1981

The Magnificent Ambersons

Uncle George

Film 2002

Black Carrion

Lou Delmart

Film 1984

Rabbit Pie Day

Kolossov

Film 1980

Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking

Narrator (voice)

Film 1999

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od William Hootkins

Remington Steele

Chester Harcourt

Tv 1982

Bergerac

Eugene Field

Tv 1981

Tales of the Unexpected

Peter Bligh

Tv 1979

Cagney & Lacey

Tv 1982

Lillie

Tv 1978

Van der Valk

Frank Garvin

Tv 1972

Yanks Go Home

Tv 1976

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Lou Delmart

Tv 1984

Agatha Christie's Poirot

FBI Agent Burt

Tv 1989

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

Frank Dorr

Tv 1983

Justice League

Commander (voice)

Tv 2001

Clouds of Glory

Reverend Dewey

Tv 1978

NOVA

Voice of Methuselah

Tv 1974

The West Wing

U.S. Translator

Tv 1999

Taxi

Liquor Authority Agent

Tv 1978

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

Loch Ness Monster (voice)

Tv 1994

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Hamilton Betts

Tv 1983

Bergerac

Karl Goldman

Tv 1981

Iron Man

Crimson Dynamo (voice)

Tv 1994

Extreme Machines

Narrator

Tv 1997

The New Statesman

Willoughby Guzzler

Tv 1987

American Gangster

Narrator

Tv 2000

Tales of the Unexpected

Harry Chester

Tv 1979

Playhouse

Mr. Bowles

Tv 1974