William Hootkins
birthday: 1948-07-05
Place of birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
deathday: 2005-10-23

William Hootkins

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

Star Wars

Star Wars

1977 . movie

Batman

Batman

1989 . movie

Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon

1980 . movie

Monkeys

Monkeys

1989 . movie

Dust Devil

Dust Devil

1992 . movie

Blessed

Blessed

2004 . movie

Biggles

Biggles

1986 . movie

Hardware

Hardware

1990 . movie

Bad Timing

Bad Timing

1980 . movie

Valentino

Valentino

1977 . movie

White Nights

White Nights

1985 . movie

Sphinx

Sphinx

1981 . movie

The Breed

The Breed

2001 . movie

Hear My Song

Hear My Song

1991 . movie

Hussy

Hussy

1980 . movie

Zina

Zina

1985 . movie

Dreamchild

Dreamchild

1985 . movie

Water

Water

1985 . movie

Funny Bones

Funny Bones

1995 . movie

Virgin Mary

Virgin Mary

1995 . movie

Big Zapper

Big Zapper

1973 . movie

The Tempest

The Tempest

1982 . movie

Dear Wendy

Dear Wendy

2005 . movie

Bergerac

Bergerac

1981 . tv

Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey

1982 . tv

Lillie

Lillie

1978 . tv

Van der Valk

Van der Valk

1972 . tv

Yanks Go Home

Yanks Go Home

1976 . tv

Justice League

Justice League

2001 . tv

Clouds of Glory

Clouds of Glory

1978 . tv

NOVA

NOVA

1974 . tv

The West Wing

The West Wing

1999 . tv

Taxi

Taxi

1978 . tv

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys

1978 . tv

Blackadder

Blackadder

1983 . tv

Bergerac

Bergerac

1981 . tv

Iron Man

Iron Man

1994 . tv

Playhouse

Playhouse

1974 . tv