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
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
Born
Jul 05, 1948
Dallas, Texas, USA
Died
Oct 23, 2005
Known For
Acting
Movies
87 acting
0 crew
Popularity
0.6
Known For
Star Wars
1977
as Red Six (Porkins)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981
as Major Eaton
Batman
1989
as Eckhardt
A River Runs Through It
1992
as Murphy
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
1987
as Harry Howler
Flash Gordon
1980
as Munson
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
as Taxi Driver
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1996
as Kiril
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
as Taxi Driver
The NeverEnding Story III
1994
as Bark Troll / Falkor (voice)
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