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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 5, 1948
Died
October 23, 2005
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- Bill Hootkins
- William Michael Hootkins
William Hootkins
0.4 Popularity
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
Known For
5.6
Frank Rich
Colour Me Kubrick
2005
5.8
Marshall Walker
Dear Wendy
2005
4.7
Detective Lauderdale
Blessed
2004
🎬
8.0
Mars: Pioneering the Planet
2003
5.8
Uncle George
The Magnificent Ambersons
2002
6.3
Senor Balustrade (voice)
Hamilton Mattress
2002
8.1
Commander (voice)
Justice League
2001
5.2
Fusco
The Breed
2001
4.4
Barney
Town & Country
2001
0.0
Narrator
American Gangster
2000
Credits
Colour Me Kubrick
as Frank Rich
2005
5.6
Dear Wendy
as Marshall Walker
2005
5.8
Blessed
as Detective Lauderdale
2004
4.7
🎬
Mars: Pioneering the Planet
2003
8.0
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Uncle George
2002
5.8
Hamilton Mattress
as Senor Balustrade (voice)
2002
6.3
Justice League
as Commander (voice)
2001
8.1
The Breed
as Fusco
2001
5.2
Town & Country
as Barney
2001
4.4
American Gangster
as Narrator
2000
0.0
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Sergei Diaghilev
2000
5.1
Animated Epics: Moby Dick
as Starbucks (voice)
2000
9.0
The Omega Code
as Sir Percival Lloyd
1999
4.6
The West Wing
as U.S. Translator
1999
8.3
Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking
as Narrator (voice)
1999
0.0
Like Father, Like Santa
as Santa Claus
1998
5.0
Something to Believe In
as Car Dealer
1998
2.5
This World, Then the Fireworks
as Jake Krutz
1997
5.1
Extreme Machines
as Narrator
1997
0.0
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
as The Man
1997
0.0
The Island of Dr. Moreau
as Kiril
1996
4.9
Virgin Mary
as judge Marulic
1995
4.1
Funny Bones
as Al
1995
6.5
Death Machine
as John Carpenter
1995
5.8
Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive
as Narrator
1995
0.0
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
as Loch Ness Monster (voice)
1994
7.8
The NeverEnding Story III
as Bark Troll / Falkor (voice)
1994
4.5
Iron Man
as Crimson Dynamo (voice)
1994
6.6
Predators of the Wild: African Survival
as Narrator
1994
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators
as Narrator
1994
0.0
Age of Treason
as Senator Garrus
1993
5.8
The Milky Life
as Julian Reilly
1993
3.0
The Cement Garden
as Commander Hunt (voice)
1993
6.8
Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula
as Narrator
1993
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Snake
as Narrator
1993
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Hawk
as Narrator
1993
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Tiger
as Narrator
1993
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Wolf
as Narrator
1993
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear
as Narrator
1993
0.0
A River Runs Through It
as Murphy
1992
7.0
Dust Devil
as Capt. Cornelius Beyman
1992
6.3
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Diaghilev
1992
6.5
Predators of the Wild: Lion
as Narrator
1992
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard
as Narrator
1992
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear
as Narrator
1992
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale
as Narrator
1992
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Shark
as Narrator
1992
0.0
Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted
as Narrator
1992
0.0
Hear My Song
as Mr. X
1991
6.0
The Pope Must Die
as Cardinal Verucci
1991
4.8
Predators of the Wild: Bats
as Narrator
1991
0.0
Hardware
as Lincoln Wineberg Jr.
1990
5.9
Batman
as Eckhardt
1989
7.2
Monkeys
as James Hoffman
1989
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as FBI Agent Burt
1989
8.2
The New Statesman
as Willoughby Guzzler
1987
7.5
American Gothic
as Teddy
1987
5.8
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
as Harry Howler
1987
4.6
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
as August T. Mirch
1987
0.0
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
as Myron Spellman
1987
5.2
A State of Emergency
as Earl Linton
1986
1.3
Haunted Honeymoon
as Reporter
1986
5.4
Biggles
as Chuck
1986
5.2
White Nights
as Chuck Malarek
1985
6.7
Zina
as Walter Adams
1985
5.4
Dreamchild
as 1st Radio Actor
1985
6.7
Water
as Ben
1985
5.9
Black Carrion
as Lou Delmart
1984
6.0
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
as Lou Delmart
1984
6.4
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
as Hamilton Betts
1983
6.1
Curse of the Pink Panther
as Taxi Driver
1983
4.6
Blackadder
as Monk
1983
8.0
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
as Frank Dorr
1983
6.6
Trail of the Pink Panther
as Taxi Driver
1982
5.2
Remington Steele
as Chester Harcourt
1982
7.1
The Tempest
as Caliban
1982
5.5
Cagney & Lacey
1982
6.9
American Playhouse
as Phil Cooper
1982
6.3
Bergerac
as Eugene Field
1981
6.7
Bergerac
as Karl Goldman
1981
6.7
Raiders of the Lost Ark
as Major Eaton
1981
7.9
Before Water Lilies
as Mel
1981
0.0
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Winston Churchill
1981
0.0
Sphinx
as Don, Tour Guide
1981
5.6
Rabbit Pie Day
as Kolossov
1980
0.0
Flash Gordon
as Munson
1980
6.2
Hussy
as 1st. Punter
1980
4.8
Bad Timing
as Col. Taylor
1980
6.6
Charlie Muffin
as U.S. Embassy Photographer
1979
5.5
Hanover Street
as Beef
1979
5.6
The Lady Vanishes
as Party Guest
1979
6.0
Tales of the Unexpected
as Peter Bligh
1979
6.7
Tales of the Unexpected
as Harry Chester
1979
6.7
The Lost Boys
as Charles Frohman
1978
6.0
The Lost Boys
as Charles Frohman
1978
8.0
Lillie
1978
8.2
Taxi
as Liquor Authority Agent
1978
7.2
Clouds of Glory
as Reverend Dewey
1978
5.0
The Billion Dollar Bubble
as Lloyd Edens
1978
7.0
Come Back, Little Sheba
as Postman
1977
7.0
Valentino
as Fatty
1977
5.9
Star Wars
as Red Six (Porkins)
1977
8.2
The Ambassadors
as Little Bilham
1977
0.0
Twilight's Last Gleaming
as Sgt. Fitzpatrick
1977
6.4
Laurence Olivier Presents
as Postman
1976
7.0
🎬
Yanks Go Home
1976
5.0
🎬
The Paradise Run
as Party Guest
1976
0.0
Playhouse
as Mr. Bowles
1974
7.0
NOVA
as Voice of Methuselah
1974
7.0
Big Zapper
as Kono's Henchman
1973
4.0
Van der Valk
as Frank Garvin
1972
5.8