William Hootkins
Age: 57 | From: Dallas, Texas, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1948-07-05 20:52:43
Death: 2005-10-23 20:52:43
Aliases: Bill Hootkins , William Michael Hootkins
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
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Movie Involvements: 62
TV Involvements: 16
Most Famous Work
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
Most Famous Work
Van der Valk
(1972) Frank Garvin
NOVA
(1974) Voice of Methuselah
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(1989) FBI Agent Burt
The West Wing
(1999) U.S. Translator
Tales of the Unexpected
(1979) Harry Chester
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
(1992) Diaghilev
Iron Man
(1994) Crimson Dynamo (voice)
Star Wars
(1977) Red Six (Porkins)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Frank Rich | |
| Marshall Walker | ||
| 2004 | Detective Lauderdale | |
| 2003 | N/A | |
| 2002 | Uncle George | |
| Senor Balustrade (voice) | ||
| 2001 | Commander (voice) | |
| Fusco | ||
| Barney | ||
| 2000 | Narrator | |
| Starbucks (voice) | ||
| 1999 | Sir Percival Lloyd | |
| U.S. Translator | ||
| Sergei Diaghilev | ||
| 1998 | Santa Claus | |
| Car Dealer | ||
| 1997 | Jake Krutz | |
| The Man | ||
| 1996 | Kiril | |
| 1995 | judge Marulic | |
| Al | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1994 | John Carpenter | |
| Loch Ness Monster (voice) | ||
| Bark Troll / Falkor (voice) | ||
| Crimson Dynamo (voice) | ||
| Narrator | ||
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| 1993 | Senator Garrus | |
| Julian Reilly | ||
| Commander Hunt (voice) | ||
| Narrator | ||
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| 1992 | Murphy | |
| Capt. Cornelius Beyman | ||
| Diaghilev | ||
| Narrator | ||
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| 1991 | Mr. X | |
| Cardinal Verucci | ||
| Narrator | ||
| 1990 | Lincoln Wineberg Jr. | |
| 1989 | Eckhardt | |
| James Hoffman | ||
| FBI Agent Burt | ||
| 1987 | Willoughby Guzzler | |
| Teddy | ||
| Harry Howler | ||
| August T. Mirch | ||
| Myron Spellman | ||
| 1986 | Earl Linton | |
| Reporter | ||
| Chuck | ||
| 1985 | Chuck Malarek | |
| Walter Adams | ||
| 1st Radio Actor | ||
| Ben | ||
| 1984 | N/A | |
| 1983 | Hamilton Betts | |
| Taxi Driver | ||
| Monk | ||
| Frank Dorr | ||
| 1982 | Taxi Driver | |
| Chester Harcourt | ||
| Caliban | ||
| N/A | ||
| Phil Cooper | ||
| 1981 | Eugene Field | |
| Karl Goldman | ||
| Major Eaton | ||
| Mel | ||
| Winston Churchill | ||
| Don, Tour Guide | ||
| 1980 | Munson | |
| 1st. Punter | ||
| Col. Taylor | ||
| 1979 | U.S. Embassy Photographer | |
| Beef | ||
| Party Guest | ||
| Peter Bligh | ||
| Harry Chester | ||
| 1978 | Charles Frohman | |
| Charles Frohman | ||
| N/A | ||
| Liquor Authority Agent | ||
| Reverend Dewey | ||
| Lloyd Edens | ||
| 1977 | Postman | |
| Fatty | ||
| Red Six (Porkins) | ||
| Sgt. Fitzpatrick | ||
| 1976 | Postman | |
| N/A | ||
| Party Guest | ||
| 1974 | Voice of Methuselah | |
| 1973 | Kono's Henchman | |
| 1972 | Frank Garvin | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
