William Hootkins
Acting • Born 1948-07-05 – Died 2005-10-23
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
Filmography
113 credits
Star Wars
Movie • 1977
Red Six (Porkins)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Movie • 1981
Major Eaton
Batman
Movie • 1989
Eckhardt
A River Runs Through It
Movie • 1992
Murphy
Death Machine
Movie • 1995
John Carpenter
Flash Gordon
Movie • 1980
Munson
Monkeys
Movie • 1989
James Hoffman
The Lady Vanishes
Movie • 1979
Party Guest
Dust Devil
Movie • 1992
Capt. Cornelius Beyman
Blessed
Movie • 2004
Detective Lauderdale
Biggles
Movie • 1986
Chuck
Hardware
Movie • 1990
Lincoln Wineberg Jr.
Bad Timing
Movie • 1980
Col. Taylor
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Movie • 1996
Kiril
Hanover Street
Movie • 1979
Beef
Trail of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1982
Taxi Driver
Valentino
Movie • 1977
Fatty
The Cement Garden
Movie • 1993
Commander Hunt (voice)
White Nights
Movie • 1985
Chuck Malarek
Sphinx
Movie • 1981
Don, Tour Guide
Animated Epics: Moby Dick
Movie • 2000
Starbucks (voice)
The Breed
Movie • 2001
Fusco
American Gothic
Movie • 1987
Teddy
Hear My Song
Movie • 1991
Mr. X
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Movie • 1977
Sgt. Fitzpatrick
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Movie • 1987
Myron Spellman
Predators of the Wild: Lion
Movie • 1992
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Wolf
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Shark
Movie • 1992
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Tiger
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear
Movie • 1992
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Snake
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard
Movie • 1992
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Hawk
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale
Movie • 1992
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Bats
Movie • 1991
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted
Movie • 1992
Narrator
Predators of the Wild: African Survival
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive
Movie • 1995
Narrator
This World, Then the Fireworks
Movie • 1997
Jake Krutz
A State of Emergency
Movie • 1986
Earl Linton
Come Back, Little Sheba
Movie • 1977
Postman
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
Movie • 1987
August T. Mirch
Curse of the Pink Panther
Movie • 1983
Taxi Driver
Like Father, Like Santa
Movie • 1998
Santa Claus
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Movie • 1987
Harry Howler
The Ambassadors
Movie • 1977
Little Bilham
Hussy
Movie • 1980
1st. Punter
Zina
Movie • 1985
Walter Adams
Dreamchild
Movie • 1985
1st Radio Actor
Mars: Pioneering the Planet
Movie • 2003
Hamilton Mattress
Movie • 2002
Senor Balustrade (voice)
Water
Movie • 1985
Ben
The Milky Life
Movie • 1993
Julian Reilly
Haunted Honeymoon
Movie • 1986
Reporter
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
Movie • 1981
Winston Churchill
Funny Bones
Movie • 1995
Al
Colour Me Kubrick
Movie • 2005
Frank Rich
The Lost Boys
Movie • 1978
Charles Frohman
Virgin Mary
Movie • 1995
judge Marulic
Big Zapper
Movie • 1973
Kono's Henchman
Something to Believe In
Movie • 1998
Car Dealer
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Movie • 2000
Sergei Diaghilev
The Tempest
Movie • 1982
Caliban
The Pope Must Die
Movie • 1991
Cardinal Verucci
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
Movie • 1997
The Man
Charlie Muffin
Movie • 1979
U.S. Embassy Photographer
The Billion Dollar Bubble
Movie • 1978
Lloyd Edens
The Paradise Run
Movie • 1976
Party Guest
The NeverEnding Story III
Movie • 1994
Bark Troll / Falkor (voice)
Age of Treason
Movie • 1993
Senator Garrus
Before Water Lilies
Movie • 1981
Mel
Dear Wendy
Movie • 2005
Marshall Walker
The Omega Code
Movie • 1999
Sir Percival Lloyd
The Magnificent Ambersons
Movie • 2002
Uncle George
Town & Country
Movie • 2001
Barney
Black Carrion
Movie • 1984
Lou Delmart
Rabbit Pie Day
Movie • 1980
Kolossov
Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Gummed Labels
Movie • 1992
Remington Steele
TV • 1982
Chester Harcourt
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Eugene Field
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Peter Bligh
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
TV • 1992
Diaghilev
Cagney & Lacey
TV • 1982
Van der Valk
TV • 1972
Frank Garvin
Yanks Go Home
TV • 1976
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
TV • 1984
Lou Delmart
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
FBI Agent Burt
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
TV • 1983
Frank Dorr
Justice League
TV • 2001
Commander (voice)
Clouds of Glory
TV • 1978
Reverend Dewey
NOVA
TV • 1974
Voice of Methuselah
The West Wing
TV • 1999
U.S. Translator
Laurence Olivier Presents
TV • 1976
Postman
Taxi
TV • 1978
Liquor Authority Agent
The Lost Boys
TV • 1978
Charles Frohman
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
TV • 1994
Loch Ness Monster (voice)
Blackadder
TV • 1983
Monk
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
TV • 1983
Hamilton Betts
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Karl Goldman
Iron Man
TV • 1994
Crimson Dynamo (voice)
Extreme Machines
TV • 1997
Narrator
The New Statesman
TV • 1987
Willoughby Guzzler
American Playhouse
TV • 1982
Phil Cooper
American Gangster
TV • 2000
Narrator
Tales of the Unexpected
TV • 1979
Harry Chester
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Mr. Bowles
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Little Bilham
Lytton's Diary
TV • 1985
Sam Wexler