William Hootkins
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1948-07-05
- Décès:
- 2005-10-23
- Lieu de naissance:
- Dallas, Texas, USA
Biographie
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 Topol's bumbling oaf assistant in "Flash Gordon", Major Eaton, sent by the US government in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", one of Rod Steiger's 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: he's 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 Johnson's 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
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Filmographie
Ancestors Of Ancient Rome: The Etruscans
Appelez-moi Kubrick
Dear Wendy
Samantha's child
Mars: Pioneering the Planet
The Magnificent Ambersons
Hamilton Mattress
La Ligue des justiciers
La Loi des vampires
Potins mondains et amnésies partielles
American Gangster
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Il était une fois Jésus
Моби Дик
La Prophétie des ténèbres
À la Maison Blanche
Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking
Like Father, Like Santa
Something to Believe In
Liens secrets
Extreme Machines
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
L'Île du Dr. Moreau
Gospa
Les drôles de Blackpool
Death Machine
Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive
Drôles de monstres
L'Histoire sans fin 3 : Retour à Fantasia
Iron Man
Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators
Predators of the Wild: African Survival
Age of Treason
La vida láctea
Cement Garden
Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula
Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear
Predators of the Wild: Wolf
Predators of the Wild: Tiger
Predators of the Wild: Snake
Predators of the Wild: Hawk
Et au milieu coule une rivière
Gummed Labels
Le Souffle du démon
Les Aventures du jeune Indiana Jones
Predators of the Wild: Lion
Predators of the Wild: Shark
Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard
Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear
Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted
Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale
Hear My Song
The Pope Must Die
La Princesse et la forêt magique
Predators of the Wild: Bats
Hardware
Batman
Crusoe
Monkeys
Hercule Poirot
The New Statesman
American Gothic
Superman IV : Le Face‐à‐face
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
Le retour de Sherlock Holmes
Un etat d'urgence
Nuit de noces chez les fantômes
Biggles
Soleil de nuit
Zina
Dreamchild : De l'autre côté du miroir
Ouragan sur l'eau plate
Lytton's Diary
Black Carrion
Histoires Singulières
Tommy Et Tuppence, le crime est notre affaire
L'Héritier de la Panthère rose
La Vipère noire
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
À la recherche de la Panthère rose
Les Enquêtes de Remington Steele
The Tempest
Cagney et Lacey
American Playhouse
Jim Bergerac, le flic de Jersey
Les Aventuriers de l'arche perdue
Before Water Lilies
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Sphinx
Flash Gordon
Rabbit Pie Day
Oppenheimer
Hussy
Enquête sur une passion
Charlie Muffin
Guerre et passion
Une femme disparaît
Bizarre, bizarre
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys
Taxi
Clouds of Glory
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Come Back, Little Sheba
Premiere
Valentino
La Guerre des étoiles
The Ambassadors
L'ultimatum des 3 mercenaires
Laurence Olivier Presents
Yanks Go Home
The Paradise Run
Playhouse
NOVA
On m'appelle Zapper
Van der Valk
BBC Play of the Month