William Hootkins

William Hootkins

Birthday: 1948-07-05

Deathday: 2005-10-23

Place of birth: Dallas, Texas, USA

Also known as: Bill Hootkins, William Michael Hootkins

imdb_id: nm0393853

Biography:

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

Played in movies:

Animated Epics: Moby Dick

Score: 9.0

Star Wars

Score: 8.2

The Lost Boys

Score: 8.0

Mars: Pioneering the Planet

Score: 8.0

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Score: 7.9

Batman

Score: 7.2

A River Runs Through It

Score: 7.0

The Billion Dollar Bubble

Score: 7.0

Come Back, Little Sheba

Score: 7.0

The Cement Garden

Score: 6.8

White Nights

Score: 6.7

Dreamchild

Score: 6.7

Bad Timing

Score: 6.6

Funny Bones

Score: 6.5

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Score: 6.4

Hamilton Mattress

Score: 6.3

Dust Devil

Score: 6.3

Flash Gordon

Score: 6.2

The Lady Vanishes

Score: 6.0

Black Carrion

Score: 6.0

Hear My Song

Score: 6.0

Water

Score: 5.9

Valentino

Score: 5.9

Hardware

Score: 5.9

American Gothic

Score: 5.8

Dear Wendy

Score: 5.8

Age of Treason

Score: 5.8

Death Machine

Score: 5.8

Colour Me Kubrick

Score: 5.7

The Magnificent Ambersons

Score: 5.6

Sphinx

Score: 5.6

Hanover Street

Score: 5.6

Charlie Muffin

Score: 5.5

The Tempest

Score: 5.5

Haunted Honeymoon

Score: 5.4

Zina

Score: 5.4

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

Score: 5.2

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Score: 5.2

The Breed

Score: 5.2

Biggles

Score: 5.2

Trail of the Pink Panther

Score: 5.2

This World, Then the Fireworks

Score: 5.1

Like Father, Like Santa

Score: 5.0

The Pope Must Die

Score: 4.9

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Score: 4.9

Hussy

Score: 4.8

Blessed

Score: 4.7

The Omega Code

Score: 4.6

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Score: 4.6

Curse of the Pink Panther

Score: 4.6

The NeverEnding Story III

Score: 4.5

Town & Country

Score: 4.5

Virgin Mary

Score: 4.1

Big Zapper

Score: 4.0

The Milky Life

Score: 3.0

Something to Believe In

Score: 2.5

A State of Emergency

Score: 1.3

Gummed Labels

Score: 0.0

Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking

Score: 0.0

Rabbit Pie Day

Score: 0.0

Before Water Lilies

Score: 0.0

The Paradise Run

Score: 0.0

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

Score: 0.0

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

Score: 0.0

The Ambassadors

Score: 0.0

U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Bats

Score: 0.0

Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: African Survival

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Hawk

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Snake

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Tiger

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Shark

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Wolf

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula

Score: 0.0

Predators of the Wild: Lion

Score: 0.0

Monkeys

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The West Wing

Score: 8.3

Agatha Christie's Poirot

Score: 8.2

Lillie

Score: 8.2

Justice League

Score: 8.2

Blackadder

Score: 8.0

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

Score: 7.8

The New Statesman

Score: 7.5

Taxi

Score: 7.3

Remington Steele

Score: 7.1

Playhouse

Score: 7.0

Laurence Olivier Presents

Score: 7.0

NOVA

Score: 7.0

Cagney & Lacey

Score: 7.0

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Tales of the Unexpected

Score: 6.7

Bergerac

Score: 6.7

Bergerac

Score: 6.7

Iron Man

Score: 6.6

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

Score: 6.6

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Score: 6.5

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Score: 6.4

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

Score: 6.3

American Playhouse

Score: 6.3

The Lost Boys

Score: 6.0

Van der Valk

Score: 5.8

BBC Play of the Month

Score: 5.0

Clouds of Glory

Score: 5.0

Yanks Go Home

Score: 5.0

American Gangster

Score: 0.0

Extreme Machines

Score: 0.0