William Hootkins

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Acting

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

Filmography

• Ancestors Of Ancient Rome: The Etruscans (2013)
• Colour Me Kubrick (2005)
• Dear Wendy (2005)
• Blessed (2004)
• Mars: Pioneering the Planet (2003)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
• Hamilton Mattress (2002)
• The Breed (2001)
• Town & Country (2001)
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades (2000)
• The Miracle Maker (2000)
• Animated Epics: Moby Dick (2000)
• The Omega Code (1999)
• Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking (1999)
• Like Father, Like Santa (1998)
• Something to Believe In (1998)
• This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
• Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest (1997)
• The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
• The Miracle of Medjugorje (1995)
• Funny Bones (1995)
• Death Machine (1995)
• Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive (1995)
• The NeverEnding Story III (1994)
• Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators (1994)
• Predators of the Wild: African Survival (1994)
• Age of Treason (1993)
• The Milky Life (1993)
• The Cement Garden (1993)
• Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula (1993)
• Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear (1993)
• Predators of the Wild: Wolf (1993)
• Predators of the Wild: Tiger (1993)
• Predators of the Wild: Snake (1993)
• Predators of the Wild: Hawk (1993)
• A River Runs Through It (1992)
• Gummed Labels (1992)
• Dust Devil (1992)
• Predators of the Wild: Lion (1992)
• Predators of the Wild: Shark (1992)
• Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard (1992)
• Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear (1992)
• Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted (1992)
• Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale (1992)
• Hear My Song (1991)
• The Pope Must Die (1991)
• The Princess and the Goblin (1991)
• Predators of the Wild: Bats (1991)
• Hardware (1990)
• Batman (1989)
• Crusoe (1989)
• Monkeys (1989)
• American Gothic (1987)
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
• U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart (1987)
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1987)
• A State of Emergency (1986)
• Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
• Biggles (1986)
• White Nights (1985)
• Zina (1985)
• Dreamchild (1985)
• Water (1985)
• Black Carrion (1984)
• Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
• Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
• The Tempest (1982)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Before Water Lilies (1981)
• The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (1981)
• Sphinx (1981)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Rabbit Pie Day (1980)
• Hussy (1980)
• Bad Timing (1980)
• Charlie Muffin (1979)
• Hanover Street (1979)
• The Lady Vanishes (1979)
• The Lost Boys (1978)
• The Billion Dollar Bubble (1978)
• Come Back, Little Sheba (1977)
• Valentino (1977)
• Star Wars (1977)
• The Ambassadors (1977)
• Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
• The Paradise Run (1976)
• Big Zapper (1973)