
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
Acting (81 movies)

Star Wars
1977

Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981

Batman
1989

A River Runs Through It
1992

Death Machine
1995

Flash Gordon
1980

Monkeys
1989

The Lady Vanishes
1979

Dust Devil
1992

Blessed
2004

Biggles
1986

Hardware
1990

Bad Timing
1980

The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996

Hanover Street
1979

Trail of the Pink Panther
1982

Valentino
1977

The Cement Garden
1993

White Nights
1985

Sphinx
1981

Animated Epics: Moby Dick
2000

The Breed
2001

American Gothic
1987

Hear My Song
1991

Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977

The Return of Sherlock Holmes
1987

Predators of the Wild: Lion
1992

Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula
1993

Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear
1993

Predators of the Wild: Wolf
1993

Predators of the Wild: Shark
1992

Predators of the Wild: Tiger
1993

Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear
1992

Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators
1994

Predators of the Wild: Snake
1993

Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard
1992

Predators of the Wild: Hawk
1993

Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale
1992

Predators of the Wild: Bats
1991

Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted
1992

Predators of the Wild: African Survival
1994

Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive
1995

This World, Then the Fireworks
1997

A State of Emergency
1986

Come Back, Little Sheba
1977

U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
1987

Curse of the Pink Panther
1983

Like Father, Like Santa
1998

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987

The Ambassadors
1977

Hussy
1980

Zina
1985

Dreamchild
1985

Hamilton Mattress
2002

Water
1985

The Milky Life
1993

Haunted Honeymoon
1986

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
1981

Funny Bones
1995

Colour Me Kubrick
2005

The Lost Boys
1978

Virgin Mary
1995

Big Zapper
1973

Something to Believe In
1998

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000

The Tempest
1982

The Pope Must Die
1991

Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
1997

Charlie Muffin
1979

The Billion Dollar Bubble
1978

The Paradise Run
1976

The NeverEnding Story III
1994

Age of Treason
1993

Before Water Lilies
1981

Dear Wendy
2005

The Omega Code
1999

The Magnificent Ambersons
2002

Town & Country
2001

Black Carrion
1984

Rabbit Pie Day
1980

Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking
1999
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