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William Hootkins

William Hootkins

Known for ActingBorn 1948-07-05Died 2005-10-23Dallas, Texas, USA
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 BiographyRead more

Movies & web series

Extreme Machines10.0
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Extreme Machines

1997 · Series

U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart9.0
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U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart

1987 · Movie

Animated Epics: Moby Dick8.5
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Animated Epics: Moby Dick

2000 · Movie

The West Wing8.3
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The West Wing

1999 · Series

Justice League8.2
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Justice League

2001 · Series

Agatha Christie's Poirot8.2
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Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989 · Series

Mars: Pioneering the Planet
8.0
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Mars: Pioneering the Planet

2003 · Movie

Star Wars8.2
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Star Wars

1977 · Movie

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest8.0
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Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest

1997 · Movie

Gummed Labels
8.0
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Gummed Labels

1992 · Movie

Blackadder8.0
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Blackadder

1983 · Series

The Lost Boys8.0
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The Lost Boys

1978 · Movie

Raiders of the Lost Ark7.9
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Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981 · Movie

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters7.8
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Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

1994 · Series

Lytton's Diary7.5
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Lytton's Diary

1985 · Series

Black Carrion7.5
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Black Carrion

1984 · Movie

The Billion Dollar Bubble7.5
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The Billion Dollar Bubble

1978 · Movie

The Lost Boys7.5
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The Lost Boys

1978 · Series

The New Statesman7.4
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The New Statesman

1987 · Series

Batman7.2
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Batman

1989 · Movie

Taxi7.3
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Taxi

1978 · Series

Remington Steele7.1
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Remington Steele

1982 · Series

A River Runs Through It7.0
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A River Runs Through It

1992 · Movie

Hamilton Mattress6.9
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Hamilton Mattress

2002 · Movie

Monkeys7.0
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Monkeys

1989 · Movie

Cagney & Lacey7.0
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Cagney & Lacey

1982 · Series

Come Back, Little Sheba7.0
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Come Back, Little Sheba

1977 · Movie

The Ambassadors7.0
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The Ambassadors

1977 · Movie

Laurence Olivier Presents7.0
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Laurence Olivier Presents

1976 · Series

NOVA7.0
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NOVA

1974 · Series

Playhouse7.0
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Playhouse

1974 · Series

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye6.9
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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye

1983 · Series

The Cement Garden6.7
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The Cement Garden

1993 · Movie

Iron Man6.7
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Iron Man

1994 · Series

White Nights6.7
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White Nights

1985 · Movie

Tales of the Unexpected6.8
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Tales of the Unexpected

1979 · Series

Bergerac6.7
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Bergerac

1981 · Series

Funny Bones6.6
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Funny Bones

1995 · Movie

Dreamchild6.6
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Dreamchild

1985 · Movie

American Playhouse6.6
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American Playhouse

1982 · Series

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense6.6
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Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

1984 · Series

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles6.5
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992 · Series

Bad Timing6.6
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Bad Timing

1980 · Movie

Age of Treason6.4
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Age of Treason

1993 · Movie

Twilight's Last Gleaming6.5
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Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977 · Movie

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime6.4
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Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

1983 · Series

Charlie Muffin6.4
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Charlie Muffin

1979 · Movie

Dust Devil6.3
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Dust Devil

1992 · Movie