William Hootkins
- Schauspiel
- 5. Juli 1948 · Dallas, Texas, USA
- 23. Oktober 2005
Biografie
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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Filmografie
- Die Etrusker - Wegbereiter des antiken Rom · Self / Narrator
- Colour Me Kubrick · Frank Rich
- Dear Wendy · Marshall Walker
- Blessed - Kinder des Teufels · Detective Lauderdale
- Mars: Pioneering the Planet
- The Magnificent Ambersons · Uncle George
- Hamilton Mattress · Senor Balustrade (Stimme)
- Die Liga der Gerechten · Commander (Stimme)
- Dark Species - Die Anderen · Fusco
- Stadt, Land, Kuss · Barney
- American Gangster · Narrator
- Die Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones: Spionage-Eskapaden · Sergei Diaghilev
- Der Mann der 1000 Wunder · Lucifer (Stimme)
- Моби Дик · Starbucks (Stimme)
- The Omega Code · Sir Percival Lloyd
- The West Wing · U.S. Translator
- Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking · Narrator (Stimme)
- Verschwörung gegen den Weihnachtsmann · Santa Claus
- Something to Believe In · Car Dealer
- Ohne Gewissen · Jake Krutz
- Extreme Machines · Narrator
- Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest · The Man
- DNA - Die Insel des Dr. Moreau · Kiril
- Gospa · judge Marulic
- Funny Bones - Tödliche Scherze · Al
- Death Machine · John Carpenter
- Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive · Narrator
- Aaahh!!! Monster · Loch Ness Monster (Stimme)
- Die unendliche Geschichte III - Rettung aus Phantásien · Bark Troll / Falkor (Stimme)
- Der unbesiegbare Iron Man · Crimson Dynamo (Stimme)
- Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: African Survival · Narrator
- Age of Treason · Senator Garrus
- La vida láctea · Julian Reilly
- Der Zementgarten · Commander Hunt (Stimme)
- Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Wolf · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Tiger · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Snake · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Hawk · Narrator
- Aus der Mitte entspringt ein Fluß · Murphy
- Gummed Labels
- Dust Devil · Capt. Cornelius Beyman
- Die Abenteuer des jungen Indiana Jones · Diaghilev
- Predators of the Wild: Lion · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Shark · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale · Narrator
- Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted · Narrator
- Hear My Song · Mr. X
- Ein Papst zum Küssen · Cardinal Verucci
- Prinzessin Aline und die Groblins · Curdie's Father (Stimme)
- Predators of the Wild: Bats · Narrator
- M.A.R.K. 13 - Hardware · Lincoln Wineberg Jr.
- Batman · Eckhardt
- Crusoe · Auctioneer
- Monkeys · James Hoffman
- Agatha Christie's Poirot · FBI Agent Burt
- The New Statesman · Willoughby Guzzler
- Dark Paradise · Teddy
- Superman IV - Die Welt am Abgrund · Harry Howler
- Zwei knallharte Cops · August T. Mirch
- Eine Pfeife in Amerika · Myron Spellman
- A State of Emergency · Earl Linton
- Hochzeitsnacht im Geisterschloß · Reporter
- Der Biggels-Effekt · Chuck
- White Nights - Nacht der Entscheidung · Chuck Malarek
- Zina · Walter Adams
- Das wahre Leben der Alice im Wunderland · First Radio Actor
- Wasser - Der Film · Ben
- Lytton's Diary · Sam Wexler
- Black Carrion · Lou Delmart
- Vorsicht, Hochspannung! · Lou Delmart
- Detektei Blunt · Hamilton Betts
- Der Fluch des rosaroten Panthers · Taxi Driver
- Blackadder · Monk
- Philip Marlowe · Frank Dorr
- Der rosarote Panther wird gejagt · Taxi Driver