William Hootkins

William Hootkins

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: Acting

Born: Dallas, Texas, USA, 1948-07-05

Died: 2005-10-23

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1973	Big Zapper	Kono's Henchman	40
2	1976	The Paradise Run	Party Guest	0
3	1977	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Sgt. Fitzpatrick	64
4	1977	The Ambassadors	Little Bilham	0
5	1977	Star Wars	Red Six (Porkins)	82
6	1977	Valentino	Fatty	59
7	1977	Come Back, Little Sheba	Postman	70
8	1978	The Billion Dollar Bubble	Lloyd Edens	70
9	1978	The Lost Boys	Charles Frohman	80
10	1979	The Lady Vanishes	Party Guest	60
11	1979	Hanover Street	Beef	56
12	1979	Charlie Muffin	U.S. Embassy Photographer	55
13	1980	Bad Timing	Col. Taylor	66
14	1980	Hussy	1st. Punter	48
15	1980	Flash Gordon	Munson	62
16	1980	Rabbit Pie Day	Kolossov	0
17	1981	Sphinx	Don, Tour Guide	56
18	1981	The Life and Times of David Lloyd George	Winston Churchill	0
19	1981	Before Water Lilies	Mel	0
20	1981	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Major Eaton	79
21	1982	The Tempest	Caliban	55
22	1982	Trail of the Pink Panther	Taxi Driver	52
23	1983	Curse of the Pink Panther	Taxi Driver	46
24	1984	Black Carrion	Lou Delmart	60
25	1985	Water	Ben	59
26	1985	Dreamchild	1st Radio Actor	67
27	1985	Zina	Walter Adams	54
28	1985	White Nights	Chuck Malarek	67
29	1986	Biggles	Chuck	52
30	1986	Haunted Honeymoon	Reporter	54
31	1986	A State of Emergency	Earl Linton	13
32	1987	The Return of Sherlock Holmes	Myron Spellman	52
33	1987	U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart	August T. Mirch	0
34	1987	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace	Harry Howler	46
35	1987	American Gothic	Teddy	58
36	1989	Monkeys	James Hoffman	0
37	1989	Batman	Eckhardt	72
38	1990	Hardware	Lincoln Wineberg Jr.	59
39	1991	Predators of the Wild: Bats	Narrator	0
40	1991	The Pope Must Die	Cardinal Verucci	49
41	1991	Hear My Song	Mr. X	60
42	1992	Predators of the Wild: Lion	Narrator	0
43	1992	Predators of the Wild: Shark	Narrator	0
44	1992	Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard	Narrator	0
45	1992	Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear	Narrator	0
46	1992	Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted	Narrator	0
47	1992	Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale	Narrator	0
48	1992	Dust Devil	Capt. Cornelius Beyman	63
49	1992	A River Runs Through It	Murphy	70
50	1993	Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula	Narrator	0
51	1993	Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear	Narrator	0
52	1993	Predators of the Wild: Wolf	Narrator	0
53	1993	Predators of the Wild: Tiger	Narrator	0
54	1993	Predators of the Wild: Snake	Narrator	0
55	1993	Predators of the Wild: Hawk	Narrator	0
56	1993	The Cement Garden	Commander Hunt (voice)	68
57	1993	The Milky Life	Julian Reilly	30
58	1993	Age of Treason	Senator Garrus	58
59	1994	Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators	Narrator	0
60	1994	Predators of the Wild: African Survival	Narrator	0
61	1994	The NeverEnding Story III	Bark Troll / Falkor (voice)	44
62	1995	Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive	Narrator	0
63	1995	Death Machine	John Carpenter	58
64	1995	Funny Bones	Al	65
65	1995	Virgin Mary	judge Marulic	41
66	1996	The Island of Dr. Moreau	Kiril	49
67	1997	Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest	The Man	0
68	1997	This World, Then the Fireworks	Jake Krutz	51
69	1998	Something to Believe In	Car Dealer	25
70	1998	Like Father, Like Santa	Santa Claus	50
71	1999	Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking	Narrator (voice)	0
72	1999	The Omega Code	Sir Percival Lloyd	46
73	2000	Animated Epics: Moby Dick	Starbucks (voice)	90
74	2000	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades	Sergei Diaghilev	51
75	2001	Town & Country	Barney	44
76	2001	The Breed	Fusco	52
77	2002	Hamilton Mattress	Senor Balustrade (voice)	63
78	2002	The Magnificent Ambersons	Uncle George	58
79	2003	Mars: Pioneering the Planet		80
80	2004	Blessed	Detective Lauderdale	47
81	2005	Dear Wendy	Marshall Walker	58
82	2005	Colour Me Kubrick	Frank Rich	57

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Little Bilham	50
2	1972	Van der Valk	Frank Garvin	58
3	1974	NOVA	Voice of Methuselah	70
4	1974	Playhouse	Mr. Bowles	70
5	1976	Yanks Go Home		50
6	1976	Laurence Olivier Presents	Postman	70
7	1978	Clouds of Glory	Reverend Dewey	50
8	1978	Taxi	Liquor Authority Agent	73
9	1978	Lillie		82
10	1978	The Lost Boys	Charles Frohman	60
11	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Peter Bligh	67
12	1979	Tales of the Unexpected	Harry Chester	67
13	1981	Bergerac	Eugene Field	67
14	1981	Bergerac	Karl Goldman	67
15	1982	American Playhouse	Phil Cooper	63
16	1982	Cagney & Lacey		69
17	1982	Remington Steele	Chester Harcourt	71
18	1983	Philip Marlowe, Private Eye	Frank Dorr	66
19	1983	Blackadder	Monk	80
20	1983	Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime	Hamilton Betts	61
21	1984	Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense	Lou Delmart	64
22	1987	The New Statesman	Willoughby Guzzler	75
23	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	FBI Agent Burt	82
24	1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Diaghilev	65
25	1994	Iron Man	Crimson Dynamo (voice)	67
26	1994	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Loch Ness Monster (voice)	78
27	1997	Extreme Machines	Narrator	0
28	1999	The West Wing	U.S. Translator	83
29	2000	American Gangster	Narrator	0
30	2001	Justice League	Commander (voice)	82

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