William Hootkins Biography (1948-)
Born August 5, 1948, in Dallas, TX; married, wife's name Polly, 1973.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Actor
- Birth Details
- August 5, 1948
- Dallas, Texas, United States
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Appearances
- Sergeant Fitzpatrick, Twilight's Last Gleaming, 1977
- Jek Porkins, Red 6, Star Wars (also known as Star Wars: EpisodeIV: A New Hope), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977
- Mr. Fatty, Valentino, United Artists, 1977
- Beef, Hanover Street, 1979
- Party guest, The Lady Vanishes, Group 1 Film Distributors, 1979
- Colonel Taylor, Bad Timing (also known as Bad Timing: A SensualObsession), World Northal, 1980
- Munson, Flash Gordon, Universal, 1980
- First "punter," Hussy, 1980
- Major Eaton, Raiders of the Lost Ark (also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark), Paramount, 1981
- Don, Sphinx, Orion, 1981
- Taxi driver, Curse of the Pink Panther, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983
- Caliban, The Tempest, 1983
- Walter Adams, Zina, 1985
- Chuck Malarek, White Nights, Columbia, 1985
- Ben, Water, Atlantic, 1985
- First radio actor, Dreamchild, Thorne EMI, 1985
- Chuck, Biggles: Adventures in Time (also known as Biggles),Century Vista, 1986
- Reporter, Haunted Honeymoon, Orion, 1986
- Harry Howler, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Warner Bros., 1987
- Auctioneer, Crusoe, Island Pictures, 1988
- Teddy, American Gothic (also known as Hide and Shriek), Vidmark Entertainment, 1988
- Lieutenant Eckhardt, Batman, Warner Bros., 1989
- Lincoln Wineberg, Jr., Hardware (also known as M.A.R.K. 13), Millimeter Films, 1990
- Mr. X, Hear My Song, Miramax, 1991
- Cardinal Verucci, The Pope Must Die (also known as The Pope Must Diet), Miramax, 1991
- Murphy (some sources cite Mr. Murchison), A River Runs through It,Columbia, 1992
- Captain Cornelius Beyman, Dust Devil, Miramax, 1992
- Julian Reilly, La vida lactea (also known as The Milky Life), Video Search of Miami, 1992
- Voice of Commander Hunt, The Cement Garden, 1993
- Voice, The Princess and the Goblin (also known as A hercegno esa kobold), Hemdale, 1993
- Senator Garrus, Age of Treason, Columbia, 1993
- Bark troll and Falkor voices, The NeverEnding Story III (also known as The Neverending Story III: Escape from Fantasia, Neverending Story III: Return to Fantasia, and Die Unendliche Geschichte III--Rettung aus Phantasien), Warner Bros., 1994
- Al, Funny Bones, Buena Vista, 1995
- Judge Marulic, Gospa, Penland Company, 1995
- John Carpenter, Death Machine, Trimark, 1995
- Kiril, The Island of Dr. Moreau, New Line Cinema, 1996
- The man, Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest, Metropolitan Filmexport,1996
- Jake Krutz, This World, Then the Fireworks, Orion, 1997
- Something to Believe In, 1998
- Sir Percival Lloyd, The Omega Code, Providence Entertainment, 1999
- Television Appearances
- Series
- Colonel Cobb, The Tomorrow People, 1992
- Miniseries
- Colonel Cunningham, Lillie, 1978
- Charles Frohman, The Lost Boys (also known as J. M. Barrie andthe Lost Boys), 1978
- Uncle George, The Magnificent Ambersons, 2001
- Movies
- Myron Spelman, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, PBS, 1987
- August Mirch (some sources cite Chief Peavy), U.S. Marshals: Waco andRhinehart (also known as Waco and Rhinehart), ABC, 1987
- Santa, Like Father, like Santa, Fox, 1998
- Specials
- Phil Cooper, Rocket to the Moon, PBS, 1986
- Buddy Bliss, The Big Knife, PBS, 1988
- Narrator, Water and Ice, The Disney Channel, 1995
- Narrator, In Search of Maneaters: Tigers of the Sundarbans, TBS, 1999
- Narrator, Wild Indonesia, PBS, 1999
- Narrator, Extreme Land Speed--The Ultimate Race, The Discovery Channel, 2000
- Voice of Starbuck, Moby Dick, USA Network, 2000
- Narrator, They Call Him Chantek, Animal Planet, 2000
- Episodic
- Herman Tweeder, "Communications Breakdown," Agony, 1981
- FBI agent, Oppenheimer, BBC, 1982
- Congressman Theodore Roosevelt, "Horse of Yet Another Color," Bret Maverick, 1982
- Liquor authority agent, "Jim's Mario's," Taxi, 1983
- Eugene Field, "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie," Bergerac, 1983
- Gregor, "Red Star Rising," Whiz Kids, 1983
- Monk, "Beer," Blackadder II, 1986
- Willoughby Guzzler, "Baa Baa Black Sheep," The New Statesman, 1987
- Burt, "Adventure of the Cheap Flat," Poirot, 1990
- Karl Goldman, "My Friend Charlie," Bergerac, 1991
- Diaghilev, "Barcelona, May 1917," The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, 1992
- Other Television Appearances
- Postman, Come Back, Little Sheba (also known as Laurence Olivier Presents: Come Back, Little Sheba), 1977
- Reverend Dewey, Clouds of Glory: William and Dorothy, 1978
- U.S. Embassy photographer, Charlie Muffin, 1979
- Lou Delmart, Black Carrion (also known as Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense: Black Carrion), 1984
- Harold, Gummed Labels, 1992
- Voice, The Miracle Maker, 2000
- RECORDINGS
- Audio Books
- The Case of the Haunted Husband, 1991
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Reluctant Model, 1992
- White Fang, 1996
- Moby Dick, 1996
- The Call of the Wild, 1997
- The Kingdom by the Sea: His Candid and Compulsive Account of a Journey'round the Coast of Great Britain, 1997
- The Old Patagonian Express, 1997
- The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, 1997
- Also narrator of Riding the Iron Rooster, Penguin Abridged; Skin Tight, Macmillan Abridged; and The Case of the Sulky Girl; as Bill Hootkins, narrator of All the Trouble in the World and Holidaysin Hell, both Reed Abridged.