William Hootkins

William Hootkins

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Birthday: 
5 July 1948, Dallas, Texas, USA
Birth Name: 
William Michael 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 Dram... Show more »
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. Show less «

William Hootkins's FILMOGRAPHY

NOVA - Season 50

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NOVA - Season 44

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Horizon - Season 56

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Poirot - Season 13

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Poirot - Season 12

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Poirot - Season 11

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The West Wing - Season 7

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Poirot - Season 10

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Absolute Power - Season 2

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Color Me Kubrick (Colour Me Kubrick: A True...ish Story)

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The West Wing - Season 6

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The West Wing - Season 5

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Justice League - Season 2

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Poirot - Season 9

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Absolute Power - Season 1

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The West Wing - Season 4

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The West Wing - Season 3

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Poirot - Season 8

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Justice League - Season 1

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Town & Country

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The West Wing - Season 2

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Poirot - Season 7

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Horizon - Season 37

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William Hootkins'S roles

Lincoln Wineberg Jr.
Lincoln Wineberg Jr.
Harry Howler
Harry Howler
Porkins
Porkins
Kiril
Kiril
Lt. Eckhardt
Lt. Eckhardt
Murphy
Murphy
Major Eaton
Major Eaton