William Hootkins

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Age

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Born: July 5, 1948 – October 23, 2005
From: Dallas, Texas, USA

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

Works

86 films

Star Wars

19778.2

Raiders of the Lost Ark

19817.9

Batman

19897.2

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

19874.6

A River Runs Through It

19927.0

Flash Gordon

19806.3

Hardware

19905.9

The Island of Dr. Moreau

19964.9

Curse of the Pink Panther

19834.6

Trail of the Pink Panther

19825.2

The NeverEnding Story III

19944.5

White Nights

19856.7

Funny Bones

19956.6

Twilight's Last Gleaming

19776.5

The Milky Life

19933.6

The Miracle Maker

20006.1

Valentino

19775.8

Hanover Street

19795.6

The Cement Garden

19936.8

Blessed

20044.8

Dreamchild

19856.6

Haunted Honeymoon

19865.4

Sphinx

19815.7

Death Machine

19955.9

The Lady Vanishes

19796.0

Virgin Mary

19954.4

Bad Timing

19806.5

Biggles

19865.2

The Magnificent Ambersons

20025.9

Dust Devil

19926.2

Town & Country

20014.5

The Breed

20015.2

The Princess and the Goblin

19915.8

This World, Then the Fireworks

19975.2

Dear Wendy

20055.8

Hussy

19804.9

The Tempest

19826.0

Age of Treason

19936.4

Monkeys

19897.0

American Gothic

19875.9

The Omega Code

19994.5

Water

19856.1

The Pope Must Die

19915.0

Colour Me Kubrick

20055.7

Zina

19856.0

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

19876.0

Hear My Song

19915.9

A State of Emergency

19863.5

Gummed Labels

19928.0

Something to Believe In

19985.0

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

19978.0

Mars: Pioneering the Planet

20038.0

Come Back, Little Sheba

19777.0

U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart

19879.0

Like Father, Like Santa

19985.8

The Billion Dollar Bubble

19787.5

Big Zapper

19734.0

Animated Epics: Moby Dick

20008.5

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

20005.5

Charlie Muffin

19796.4

Hamilton Mattress

20026.8

The Paradise Run

1976

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

1981

Predators of the Wild: Lion

1992

The Lost Boys

19788.0

The Ambassadors

19777.0

Black Carrion

19847.5

Rabbit Pie Day

1980

Before Water Lilies

1981

Predators of the Wild: Hawk

1993

Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators

1994

Ancestors Of Ancient Rome: The Etruscans

2013

Predators of the Wild: Snake

1993

Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking

1999

Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear

1993

Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted

1992

Predators of the Wild: Shark

1992

Predators of the Wild: African Survival

1994

Predators of the Wild: Tiger

1993

Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula

1993

Predators of the Wild: Wolf

1993

Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard

1992

Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale

1992

Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear

1992

Predators of the Wild: Bats

1991

Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive

1995