Bo Hopkins
Acting
- Born:
- 1938-02-02
- Died:
- 2022-05-28
- Place of birth:
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Biography
Bo Hopkins (February 2, 1938 – May 28, 2022) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the The Wild Bunch (1969), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Getaway (1972), American Graffiti (1973), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Killer Elite (1975), Posse (1975), A Small Town in Texas (1976), Midnight Express (1978), and More American Graffiti (1979). After Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). He starred or co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies of the mid-1970s, including Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975), The Runaway Barge (1975), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), The Invasion of Johnson County (1976), Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), Woman on the Run (1977), Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978), Crisis in Sun Valley (1978) and The Busters (1978). When Gretchen Corbett left the television series The Rockford Files in 1978, Hopkins replaced her character as Rockford's attorney John Cooper, ultimately appearing in 3 episodes. In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel. His many other appearances on television included in miniseries Aspen (1977) and Beggarman, Thief (1979), and in episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox, Murder, She Wrote and Doc Elliot. Hopkins has a role in the video game Nuclear Strike. He plays Colonel LeMonde, a mercenary who steals a nuclear weapon. The 'Strike' team tracks him through Southeast Asia.Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas
Hillbilly Elegy
A Little Christmas Business
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
Shade
City of Ghosts
Cowboy Up
A Crack in the Floor
Choosing Matthias
Vice
Big Brother Trouble
The Thundering 8th
Time Served
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Getting to Know You
Lunker Lake
The Newton Boys
Phantoms
Fever Lake
U Turn
Painted Hero
The Angry Beavers
Uncle Sam
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
R.I.O.T.: The Movie
Riders in the Storm
OP Center
OP Center
The Feminine Touch
Texas Payback
Radioland Murders
Cheyenne Warrior
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
The Ballad of Little Jo
Inside Monkey Zetterland
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
Center of the Web
Blood Ties
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!
The Final Alliance
Big Bad John
The Bounty Hunter
President's Target
Trapper County War
Nightmare at Noon
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Houston: The Legend of Texas
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Matlock
What Comes Around
Dark Horse
Crazy like a Fox
Murder, She Wrote
Finder of Lost Loves
Night Shadows
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
The Hitchhiker
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Ghost Dancing
The A-Team
Sweet Sixteen
Matt Houston
Hotel
Dynasty
Rodeo Girl
Casino
The Plutonium Incident
Beggarman, Thief
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
More American Graffiti
Supertrain
The Fifth Floor
Midnight Express
Crisis in Sun Valley
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
Aspen
Tentacles
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
Charlie's Angels
The Invasion of Johnson County
A Small Town in Texas
Charlie's Angels
The Killer Elite
The Kansas City Massacre
Posse
The Day of the Locust
The Runaway Barge
The Nickel Ride
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
The Rockford Files
The Manhunter
Doc Elliot
American Graffiti
White Lightning
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
The Getaway
The Rookies
The Only Way Home
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Nichols
Cat Ballou
Macho Callahan
Monte Walsh
The Moonshine War
The Thousand Plane Raid
The Bridge at Remagen
The Wild Bunch
Hawaii Five-O
Dayton's Devils
The Mod Squad
The Guns of Will Sonnett
Ironside
The Rat Patrol
The Wild Wild West
The Virginian
The Mike Douglas Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Bonanza
Gunsmoke