William Hootkins
Acting
- Nascimento:
- 1948-07-05
- Falecimento:
- 2005-10-23
- Local de nascimento:
- Dallas, Texas, USA
Biografia
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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Filmografia
Ancestors Of Ancient Rome: The Etruscans
Totalmente Kubrick
Querida Wendy
Reencarnação
Mars: Pioneering the Planet
A Queda do Poder
Hamilton Mattress
Liga da Justiça
Cidade Dos Vampiros
Ricos, Bonitos e Infiéis
American Gangster
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
O Senhor dos Milagres
Моби Дик
Omega Code
West Wing: Nos Bastidores do Poder
Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking
Like Father, Like Santa
Something to Believe In
This World, Then the Fireworks
Extreme Machines
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
A Ilha do Dr. Moreau
Gospa
Rir É Viver
A Máquina da Morte
Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive
Aaahh!!! Monstros
A História Sem Fim 3
Homem de Ferro
Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators
Predators of the Wild: African Survival
Age of Treason
La vida láctea
The Cement Garden
Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula
Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear
Predators of the Wild: Wolf
Predators of the Wild: Hawk
Predators of the Wild: Tiger
Predators of the Wild: Snake
Nada É Para Sempre
Gummed Labels
O Colecionador de Almas
O Jovem Indiana Jones
Predators of the Wild: Lion
Predators of the Wild: Shark
Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear
Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard
Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale
Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted
Escute Minha Canção
The Pope Must Die
A Princesa e o Duende
Predators of the Wild: Bats
Hardware - O Destruidor do Futuro
Batman
Crusoé
Monkeys
Agatha Christie's Poirot
The New Statesman
Os Anfitriões
Superman IV: Em Busca da Paz
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
A State of Emergency
Lua-de-Mel Assombrada
Biggles
O Sol da Meia-Noite
Zina
Dreamchild
Ilha dos Malucos
Lytton's Diary
Black Carrion
Brinquedo de Criança
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
A Maldição da Pantera Cor-de-Rosa
Blackadder
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
A Trilha da Pantera Cor-de-Rosa
Jogo Duplo
The Tempest
Cagney & Lacey
American Playhouse
Bergerac
Indiana Jones e os Caçadores da Arca Perdida
Before Water Lilies
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Sphinx
Flash Gordon
Rabbit Pie Day
Oppenheimer
Hussy
Bad Timing: Contratempo
Charlie Muffin
Amor em Chamas
Mistérios na Bavaria
Tales of the Unexpected
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys
Taxi
Clouds of Glory
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Come Back, Little Sheba
Premiere
Rudolph Valentino - O Ídolo, O Homem
Guerra nas Estrelas
The Ambassadors
O Último Brilho do Crepúsculo
Laurence Olivier Presents
Yanks Go Home
The Paradise Run
Playhouse
NOVA
Big Zapper
Van der Valk
BBC Play of the Month