William Hootkins

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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William Hootkins

Filmografia

Guerre stellari

I predatori dell'arca perduta

Batman

In mezzo scorre il fiume

Death Machine

Flash Gordon

Monkeys

Il mistero della signora scomparsa

Demoniaca

Blessed - Il seme del male

Avventura nel tempo

Hardware - Metallo letale

Il lenzuolo viola

L'isola perduta

Una strada, un amore

Sulle orme della Pantera Rosa

Valentino

Il giardino di cemento

Il sole a mezzanotte

Sfinge

Моби Дик

La stirpe

La casa degli orrori - American gothic

Il mistero di Jo Locke, il sosia e miss Britannia '58

Ultimi bagliori di un crepuscolo

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Predators of the Wild: Lion

Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula

Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear

Predators of the Wild: Wolf

Predators of the Wild: Shark

Predators of the Wild: Tiger

Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear

Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators

Predators of the Wild: Snake

Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard

Predators of the Wild: Hawk

Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale

Predators of the Wild: Bats

Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted

Predators of the Wild: African Survival

Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive

This World, Then the Fireworks

A State of Emergency

Come Back, Little Sheba

U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart

Pantera Rosa - Il mistero Clouseau

Like Father, Like Santa

Superman IV

The Ambassadors

Hussy

Zina

Dreamchild

Mars: Pioneering the Planet

Hamilton Mattress

Acqua in bocca

La vida láctea

Luna di miele stregata

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

Il commediante

Colour Me Kubrick

The Lost Boys

Gospa

Big Zapper

Qualcosa in cui credere

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

The Tempest

The Pope Must Die

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

L'abbraccio dell'orso

The Billion Dollar Bubble

The Paradise Run

La storia infinita 3

Age of Treason

Before Water Lilies