Timothy Bottoms
Acting • Born 1951-08-30
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Timothy James Bottoms is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in Johnny Got His Gun; Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show; The Paper Chase; and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom That's My Bush!; in the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and the docudrama DC 9/11: Time of Crisis. Bottoms made his film debut in 1971 as Joe Bonham in Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun. The same year, he appeared alongside his brother Sam in The Last Picture Show. (He portrayed the same character in the 1990 sequel Texasville). In 1973's The Paper Chase, he starred as Harvard law student Hart facing the fearsome Professor Kingsfield (John Houseman). Among the other films he has appeared in are Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, Operation Daybreak, A Small Town in Texas, Rollercoaster, Hurricane, Invaders from Mars and Elephant. Bottoms has portrayed U.S. President George W. Bush in three widely varying productions. In 2000 and 2001, he played a parody of Bush in the Comedy Central sitcom That's My Bush!; he subsequently appeared as Bush in a cameo appearance in the family film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. Finally, following the September 11 attacks, Bottoms once again played Bush, this time in a serious fashion, in the TV film DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, one of the first films to be based upon the attacks. During an episode of the Fox television show That '70s Show in which a tornado warning has been issued and the students of the high school are trapped, Bottoms is seen as the panicking principal. He appeared in a recurring role during the first season of the FX series Dirt as Gibson Horne, who owned the magazine that series main character Lucy Spiller worked for. He also co-produced the documentary Picture This – The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas, a behind-the-scenes work about the making of the films The Last Picture Show and Texasville. In the documentary, he revealed that he had a crush on his co-star Cybill Shepherd during The Last Picture Show, but she did not reciprocate his romantic feelings, even though she said in a separate interview that she found him "very attractive". He was also heavily featured in the Metallica video for "One", which featured footage of the film Johnny Got His Gun. Description above from the Wikipedia article Timothy Bottoms, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
115 credits
Elephant
Movie • 2003
Mr. McFarland
The Girl Next Door
Movie • 2004
Mr. Kidman
Rollercoaster
Movie • 1977
Young Man
The Land That Time Forgot
Movie • 2009
Captain Burroughs
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Movie • 2004
Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith
The White Dawn
Movie • 1974
Daggett
Invaders from Mars
Movie • 1986
George Gardner
The Last Picture Show
Movie • 1971
Sonny Crawford
The $cheme
Movie • 2003
Rotunno
Uncle Sam
Movie • 1996
Donald Crandall
Call of the Wild
Movie • 2009
Heep
The Governor's Wife
Movie • 2008
Sheriff Carl Lovett
What Waits Below
Movie • 1984
Major Elbert Stevens
Top Dog
Movie • 1995
Nelson Houseman
Mio in the Land of Faraway
Movie • 1987
The King
The Paper Chase
Movie • 1973
James T. Hart
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
Movie • 1986
Jack Ringtree
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
Movie • 2006
Joe Bonham (video "One")
Deceit
Movie • 2006
Martin Ford
Shanghai Kiss
Movie • 2007
Adelaide's Father
Johnny Got His Gun
Movie • 1971
Joe Bonham
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Movie • 1973
Walter Elbertson
Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Movie • 2005
Clarence
Pound of Flesh
Movie • 2011
Cameron Morris
Ava's Magical Adventure
Movie • 1998
Slayton
Parasomnia
Movie • 2008
Dr. Corso
Ringer
Movie • 1996
Clay
Diamondbacks
Movie • 1999
Ed Williams
The Fantasist
Movie • 1986
Danny Sullivan
Texasville
Movie • 1990
Sonny Crawford
Operation: Daybreak
Movie • 1975
Jan Kubis
Paradise Texas
Movie • 2005
Mack Cameron
Hurricane
Movie • 1979
Jack Sanford
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II
Movie • 1978
John Boothe
Return from the River Kwai
Movie • 1989
Seaman Miller
Vampire Bats
Movie • 2005
Hank Poelker
Death Game
Movie • 1996
Jack
Yakuza Connection
Movie • 1995
Ward Derderian
Absolute Force
Movie • 1997
Lt. John Drake
The Sea Serpent
Movie • 1985
Pedro Fontán
Hourglass
Movie • 1997
Jurgen Brauner
The Gift of Love
Movie • 1978
Rudi Miller
The Drifter
Movie • 1988
Arthur
Istanbul
Movie • 1989
Frank Collins
Held for Ransom
Movie • 2000
Fred Donovan
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Movie • 1984
Morris Frank
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
Movie • 2003
George W. Bush
Fox Hunt
Movie • 1996
Frank
A Small Town in Texas
Movie • 1976
Poke Jackson
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Movie • 1986
Father Thomas O'Neil
Look Homeward, Angel
Movie • 1972
Eugene Gant
A Case of Honor
Movie • 1988
Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case
Total Force
Movie • 1996
Drake
The Census Taker
Movie • 1984
Pete
Lone Tiger
Movie • 1996
Marcus
Tiger
Movie • 1997
Larry
Along the Way
Movie • 2007
Michael McCaffery
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Movie • 1974
Vrooder
Murder Scene
Movie • 2000
Detective Stepnoski
Digger
Movie • 1993
Sam Corlett
Island Sons
Movie • 1987
Tim Faraday
Tin Man
Movie • 1983
Casey
No Rest for the Wicked
Movie • 1998
Father Jeremy
Holiday in Handcuffs
Movie • 2007
Dad Chandler
Picture This
Movie • 1991
Self
Maximum Justice
Movie • 1998
Salvatore Solleto
Ripper Man
Movie • 1995
Charles Walkan
The High Country
Movie • 1981
Jim
The Story of David
Movie • 1976
David
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Movie • 2002
George W. Bush (uncredited)
Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick
Movie • 1999
Self
Bound By a Secret
Movie • 2009
Will
The Prince
Movie • 1996
X-Treme Teens
Movie • 1999
John
The One-Nighter
Movie • 2012
Louie
The Man in the Iron Mask
Movie • 1998
Fouquet
Black Sea 213
Movie • 1998
Dean
I Married Who?
Movie • 2012
Mike Swift
A Shining Season
Movie • 1979
John Baker
Desperate Obsession
Movie • 1995
Tar
Movie • 2020
Barry Greenwood
John Glenn: American Hero
Movie • 1998
Narrator
Horses and Champions
Movie • 1996
Ben Choice
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
Movie • 2008
Thomas
The Shed
Movie • 2019
Ellis
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
Movie • 2009
Paul Maxwell
Escape
Movie • 1980
Dwight Worker
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Movie • 2010
Self
The Hiding Place
Movie • 2000
Jack
Illusion Infinity
Movie • 2004
Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan
Personal Vendetta
Movie • 1995
Zach Blackwell
How Not to Propose
Movie • 2015
Rick
Welcome to the Men's Group
Movie • 2016
Larry
The Prince and the Surfer
Movie • 1999
Johnny Canty
Mr. Atlas
Movie • 1997
Phillip Frodden
Hambone and Hillie
Movie • 1983
Michael Radcliffe
Pocket Angel
Movie • 2005
Himself
Lone Rider
Movie • 2008
Gus
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Movie • 2014
George Gardner (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's My Bush!
TV • 2001
George W. Bush
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Carl Murphy
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1985
The View
TV • 1997
Self
Freddy's Nightmares
TV • 1988
Mr. Franklin
NCIS
TV • 2003
Ritt Everett
500 Nations
TV • 1995
The Hitchhiker
TV • 1983
Peter
Land of the Lost
TV • 1991
Tom Porter
East of Eden
TV • 1981
Adam Trask
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
TV • 1976
Miles Eastin
That '70s Show
TV • 1998
Vice Principal Cole
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self - Guest
Private Practice
TV • 2007
Irwin
East of Eden
TV • 1981
Adam Trask
Dirt
TV • 2007
Gibson Horne