William Hootkins
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1948-07-05
- Fallecimiento:
- 2005-10-23
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Dallas, Texas, USA
Biografía
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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Filmografía
Ancestors Of Ancient Rome: The Etruscans
Colour Me Kubrick
Querida Wendy
Hijos de Satán
Mars: Pioneering the Planet
El cuarto mandamiento
Hamilton Mattress
La liga de la justicia
Legado de sangre
Enredos de sociedad
American Gangster
Las Aventuras del Joven Indiana Jones: Escapadas de Espionaje
El hombre que hacía milagros
Моби Дик
Código Omega
El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca
Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking
El robo de la Navidad
Algo en que creer
This World, Then the Fireworks
Extreme Machines
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
La isla del Dr. Moreau
Gospa. El milagro de Medjugorje
Los comediantes
Máquina letal
Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive
Aaahhh!!! Monstruos
La historia interminable III. Las aventuras de Bastian
Iron Man, La serie animada
Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators
Predators of the Wild: African Survival
Age of Treason
La vida láctea
El jardín de cemento
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
El río de la vida
Gummed Labels
El demonio del desierto
Las crónicas del joven 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
Hear My Song
The Pope Must Die
La princesa y los duendes
Predators of the Wild: Bats
Hardware: Programado para matar
Chancer
Batman
Crusoe
Monkeys
Agatha Christie: Poirot
The New Statesman
Escóndete y tiembla
Superman IV. En busca de la paz
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
El regreso de Sherlock Holmes
A State of Emergency
Terrorífica luna de miel
Biggles, el viajero del tiempo
Noches de sol
Zina
Dreamchild
Loca juerga tropical
Lytton's Diary
Black Carrion
Misterio
Matrimonio de Sabuesos de Agatha Christie
La maldición de la pantera rosa
La víbora negra
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Tras la pista de la pantera rosa
Remington Steele
The Tempest
Cagney & Lacey
American Playhouse
Bergerac
En busca del arca perdida
Before Water Lilies
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
La esfinge
Flash Gordon
Rabbit Pie Day
Oppenheimer
Hussy
Contratiempo
Charlie Muffin
La calle del adiós
La dama del expreso
Tales of the Unexpected
The Lost Boys
The Lost Boys
Taxi
Clouds of Glory
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Life at Stake
Come Back, Little Sheba
Premiere
Valentino
La guerra de las galaxias
The Ambassadors
Alerta: Misiles
Laurence Olivier Presents
Yanks Go Home
The Paradise Run
Playhouse
NOVA
Big Zapper
Van der Valk
BBC Play of the Month