William Hootkins
1948-07-05 ( 76 years old ) in Dallas, Texas, USA

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

Movies

Colour Me Kubrick 2005-10-06
Dear Wendy 2005-02-04
Blessed 2004-05-16
Mars: Pioneering the Planet 2003-08-10
The Magnificent Ambersons 2002-01-12
Hamilton Mattress 2002-01-01
The Breed 2001-07-19
Town & Country 2001-04-27
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades 2000-07-13
Animated Epics: Moby Dick 2000-01-01
The Omega Code 1999-10-15
Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking 1999-08-12
Like Father, Like Santa 1998-12-01
Something to Believe In 1998-05-08
This World, Then the Fireworks 1997-07-11
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest 1997-01-19
The Island of Dr. Moreau 1996-08-23
Virgin Mary 1995-10-12
Funny Bones 1995-09-20
Death Machine 1995-05-02
Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive 1995-01-01
The NeverEnding Story III 1994-10-26
Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators 1994-01-01
Predators of the Wild: African Survival 1994-01-01
Age of Treason 1993-06-20
The Milky Life 1993-02-23
The Cement Garden 1993-02-20
Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula 1993-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear 1993-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Wolf 1993-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Tiger 1993-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Snake 1993-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Hawk 1993-01-01
A River Runs Through It 1992-10-09
Dust Devil 1992-07-11
Predators of the Wild: Lion 1992-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Shark 1992-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear 1992-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard 1992-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale 1992-01-01
Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted 1992-01-01
Hear My Song 1991-12-27
The Pope Must Die 1991-06-21
Predators of the Wild: Bats 1991-01-01
Hardware 1990-09-14
Batman 1989-06-21
Monkeys 1989-02-08
American Gothic 1987-08-17
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 1987-07-24
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart 1987-03-27
The Return of Sherlock Holmes 1987-01-10
A State of Emergency 1986-11-01
Haunted Honeymoon 1986-07-25
Biggles 1986-05-30
White Nights 1985-11-22
Zina 1985-11-01
Dreamchild 1985-10-04
Water 1985-01-11
Black Carrion 1984-11-12
Curse of the Pink Panther 1983-08-12
Trail of the Pink Panther 1982-12-03
The Tempest 1982-09-24
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981-06-12
Before Water Lilies 1981-03-24
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George 1981-03-04
Sphinx 1981-02-11
Rabbit Pie Day 1980-11-10
Flash Gordon 1980-09-01
Hussy 1980-05-01
Bad Timing 1980-03-02
Charlie Muffin 1979-12-11
Hanover Street 1979-05-18
The Lady Vanishes 1979-04-30
The Lost Boys 1978-10-11
The Billion Dollar Bubble 1978-06-08
Come Back, Little Sheba 1977-12-31
Valentino 1977-09-07
Star Wars 1977-05-25
The Ambassadors 1977-03-13
Twilight's Last Gleaming 1977-02-09
The Paradise Run 1976-04-05
Big Zapper 1973-07-05

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