William Hootkins
Acting
Born 1948-07-05
Died 2005-10-23
Dallas, Texas, USA
115 credits
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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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Filmography
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Agatha Christie's Poirot
The West Wing
NOVA
Star Wars
Taxi
BBC Play of the Month
Playhouse
Tales of the Unexpected
Cagney & Lacey
Bergerac
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Remington Steele
Van der Valk
Blackadder
American Playhouse
Batman
Justice League
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
A River Runs Through It
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Iron Man
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
The New Statesman
Flash Gordon
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Hardware
Extreme Machines
Lytton's Diary
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Curse of the Pink Panther
White Nights
Funny Bones
Valentino
The NeverEnding Story III
Trail of the Pink Panther
Hanover Street
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
Dreamchild
Death Machine
Premiere
Town & Country
Haunted Honeymoon
Twilight's Last Gleaming
The Cement Garden
Biggles
The Miracle Maker
The Milky Life
The Lady Vanishes
Dust Devil
This World, Then the Fireworks
Blessed
Sphinx
Laurence Olivier Presents
The Breed
The Princess and the Goblin
Dear Wendy
Bad Timing
Virgin Mary
The Magnificent Ambersons
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