Bo Hopkins
Acting • Born 1938-02-02 – Died 2022-05-28
Biography
Bo Hopkins (February 2, 1938 – May 28, 2022) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the The Wild Bunch (1969), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Getaway (1972), American Graffiti (1973), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Killer Elite (1975), Posse (1975), A Small Town in Texas (1976), Midnight Express (1978), and More American Graffiti (1979). After Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). He starred or co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies of the mid-1970s, including Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975), The Runaway Barge (1975), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), The Invasion of Johnson County (1976), Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), Woman on the Run (1977), Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978), Crisis in Sun Valley (1978) and The Busters (1978). When Gretchen Corbett left the television series The Rockford Files in 1978, Hopkins replaced her character as Rockford's attorney John Cooper, ultimately appearing in 3 episodes. In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel. His many other appearances on television included in miniseries Aspen (1977) and Beggarman, Thief (1979), and in episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox, Murder, She Wrote and Doc Elliot. Hopkins has a role in the video game Nuclear Strike. He plays Colonel LeMonde, a mercenary who steals a nuclear weapon. The 'Strike' team tracks him through Southeast Asia.Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
124 credits
The Wild Bunch
Movie • 1969
Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
U Turn
Movie • 1997
Ed
American Graffiti
Movie • 1973
Joe Young
White Lightning
Movie • 1973
Ray Boone
The Day of the Locust
Movie • 1975
Earle Shoop
The Getaway
Movie • 1972
Frank Jackson
Center of the Web
Movie • 1992
Frank Allesendro
Midnight Express
Movie • 1978
Tex
The Killer Elite
Movie • 1975
Jerome Miller
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
Movie • 1999
Sheriff Lawson
More American Graffiti
Movie • 1979
Little Joe
Uncle Sam
Movie • 1996
Sgt. Twining
Night Shadows
Movie • 1984
Sheriff Will Stewart
The Nickel Ride
Movie • 1975
Turner
A Crack in the Floor
Movie • 2001
Sheriff Talmidge
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Movie • 1973
Billy
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Movie • 1972
Dixie Brick
Big Brother Trouble
Movie • 2000
Oddo
Cheyenne Warrior
Movie • 1994
Jack Andrews
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Movie • 1986
Sheriff John Jensen
The Bridge at Remagen
Movie • 1969
Cpl. Grebs
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
Movie • 1996
Rip Bartlett
Posse
Movie • 1975
Wesley
OP Center
Movie • 1995
Dan McCaskey
Dayton's Devils
Movie • 1968
Truck Driver
Tentacles
Movie • 1977
Will Gleason
Monte Walsh
Movie • 1970
Jumpin' Joe Joslin
The Ballad of Little Jo
Movie • 1993
Frank Badger
Nightmare at Noon
Movie • 1988
Reilly
Cowboy Up
Movie • 2002
Ray Drupp
The Fifth Floor
Movie • 1978
Carl
The Newton Boys
Movie • 1998
K.P. Aldrich
Casino
Movie • 1980
Stoney
Sweet Sixteen
Movie • 1983
Sheriff Dan Burke
The Thousand Plane Raid
Movie • 1969
Capt. Douglass
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Movie • 1975
Prosecuting attorney
Ghost Dancing
Movie • 1983
Dave Groves
Painted Hero
Movie • 1997
Brownie
What Comes Around
Movie • 1985
Tom Hawkins
The Only Way Home
Movie • 1972
Orval
Fever Lake
Movie • 1997
Sheriff Harris
Rodeo Girl
Movie • 1980
Will Garrett
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!
Movie • 1990
Sheriff Jon Farlock
Lunker Lake
Movie • 1998
Mitch Swindell
Inside Monkey Zetterland
Movie • 1992
Mike Zetterland
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
Movie • 1992
Steven Haynes
The Kansas City Massacre
Movie • 1975
Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
A Small Town in Texas
Movie • 1976
Sheriff Duke
The Final Alliance
Movie • 1990
Sheriff Whistler
The Plutonium Incident
Movie • 1980
Art Reeves
President's Target
Movie • 1989
Marty Rogers
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Movie • 1986
Jud
Blood Ties
Movie • 1991
Chief Hunter
Time Served
Movie • 1999
Mr. D
Crisis in Sun Valley
Movie • 1978
Buchanan
Big Bad John
Movie • 1990
Lester
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Movie • 2005
Self
The Bounty Hunter
Movie • 1989
Sheriff Bennett
The Runaway Barge
Movie • 1975
Earl Owens
Macho Callahan
Movie • 1971
Yancy
City of Ghosts
Movie • 2002
(Uncredited)
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
Movie • 1994
Rattlesnake Reynolds
Phantoms
Movie • 1998
Agent Hawthorne
The Feminine Touch
Movie • 1995
Capt. Hogan
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
Movie • 1984
Self
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
Movie • 1978
Eddie Lee Haskell
Shade
Movie • 2003
Lieutenant Scarne
Trapper County War
Movie • 1989
Sheriff Sam Frost
Texas Payback
Movie • 1994
Sheriff Bishop
The Moonshine War
Movie • 1970
Bud Blackwell
Choosing Matthias
Movie • 2001
Doc
Beggarman, Thief
Movie • 1979
Bunny Dwyer
Vice
Movie • 2000
Jamie Barnett
The Invasion of Johnson County
Movie • 1976
George Dunning
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Movie • 1979
Billy Doolin
A Little Christmas Business
Movie • 2013
Coach Morris
Riders in the Storm
Movie • 1995
Billy Van Owen
Getting to Know You
Movie • 1999
Officer Caminetto
Hillbilly Elegy
Movie • 2020
Papaw
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
Movie • 1976
Swan
Radioland Murders
Movie • 1994
Billy's Father
Dark Horse
Movie • 1985
R.I.O.T.: The Movie
Movie • 1996
Harry McQue
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
Movie • 2003
Coach Stangel
Cat Ballou
Movie • 1971
Clay
The Thundering 8th
Movie • 2000
Col. Thompson
Charlie's Angels
Movie • 1976
Beau Creel
Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
George
Supertrain
TV • 1979
The Rookies
TV • 1972
The A-Team
TV • 1983
Charles Drew
Matlock
TV • 1986
Sheriff
Hawaii Five-O
TV • 1968
Jeb
Dynasty
TV • 1981
Matthew Blaisdel
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
TV • 1983
Hotel
TV • 1982
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
The Angry Beavers
TV • 1997
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Harper Haggen
Ironside
TV • 1967
Crazy like a Fox
TV • 1984
Lowell
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Will
Nichols
TV • 1971
Kansas
Matt Houston
TV • 1982
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Lew Bridgeman
The Rat Patrol
TV • 1966
Bo Randall
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
The Manhunter
TV • 1974
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
TV • 1974
Doc Elliot
TV • 1973
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Stretch Logan
OP Center
TV • 1995
Dan McCaskey
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
John Cooper
The Wild Wild West
TV • 1965
Zack Garrison
Aspen
TV • 1977
Budd Townsend
Finder of Lost Loves
TV • 1984
William Davis / Drew Gilbert
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Wes Anderson
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Arnie
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Scott Larkin
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Ray Jenkins
The Guns of Will Sonnett
TV • 1967
Ben Merceen
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Doc Elliot
TV • 1973
Eldred McCoy