William Hootkins

William Hootkins

Acting 1948-07-05 Dallas, 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 Biography

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2005 Frank Rich
2005 Marshall Walker
2004 Detective Lauderdale
2002 Senor Balustrade (voice)
2002 Uncle George
2001 Fusco
2001 Barney
2001 Commander (voice)
2000 Starbucks (voice)
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2000 Narrator
1999 Sir Percival Lloyd
1999 Narrator (voice)
1999 U.S. Translator
1998 Santa Claus
1998 Car Dealer
1997 Jake Krutz
1997 Narrator
1996 Kiril
1995 John Carpenter
1995 Al
1995 judge Marulic
1994 Bark Troll / Falkor (voice)
1994 Loch Ness Monster (voice)
1994 Crimson Dynamo (voice)
1993 Commander Hunt (voice)
1993 Narrator
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1993 Julian Reilly
1993 Senator Garrus
1992 Murphy
1992 Capt. Cornelius Beyman
1992 Narrator
1992 Narrator
1991 Mr. X
1991 Narrator
1991 Cardinal Verucci
1990 Lincoln Wineberg Jr.
1989 Eckhardt
1989 James Hoffman
1989 FBI Agent Burt
1987 Teddy
1987 Myron Spellman
1987 August T. Mirch
1987 Harry Howler
1987 Willoughby Guzzler
1986 Chuck
1986 Earl Linton
1986 Reporter
1985 Chuck Malarek
1985 Walter Adams
1985 1st Radio Actor
1985 Ben
1984 Lou Delmart
1983 Taxi Driver
1983 Frank Dorr
1983 Monk
1983 Hamilton Betts
1982 Taxi Driver
1982 Caliban
1982 Chester Harcourt
1982 Phil Cooper
1981 Major Eaton
1981 Don, Tour Guide
1981 Winston Churchill
1981 Mel
1981 Eugene Field
1981 Karl Goldman
1980 Munson
1980 Col. Taylor
1980 1st. Punter
1980 Kolossov
1979 Party Guest
1979 Beef
1979 U.S. Embassy Photographer
1979 Peter Bligh
1979 Harry Chester
1978 Charles Frohman
1978 Lloyd Edens
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1978 Reverend Dewey
1978 Liquor Authority Agent
1978 Charles Frohman
1977 Red Six (Porkins)
1977 Fatty
1977 Sgt. Fitzpatrick
1977 Postman
1977 Little Bilham
1976 Party Guest
1976 Postman
1974 Voice of Methuselah
1974 Mr. Bowles
1973 Kono's Henchman
1972 Frank Garvin
1965 Little Bilham
Harry Howler