Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-07-05 (57 years old)
Deathday
2005-10-23
Place of Birth
Dallas, Texas, USA
Also known As
Bill Hootkins
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 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 th...
1977
as Red Six (Porkins)
1981
as Major Eaton
1989
as Eckhardt
1992
as Murphy
1995
as John Carpenter
1980
as Munson
1989
as James Hoffman
1979
as Party Guest
1992
as Capt. Cornelius Beyman
2004
as Detective Lauderdale
1986
as Chuck
1990
as Lincoln Wineberg Jr.
1980
as Col. Taylor
1996
as Kiril
1979
as Beef
1982
as Taxi Driver
1977
as Fatty
1993
as Commander Hunt (voice)
1985
as Chuck Malarek
1981
as Don, Tour Guide
2000
as Starbucks (voice)
2001
as Fusco
1987
as Teddy
1991
as Mr. X
1977
as Sgt. Fitzpatrick
1987
as Myron Spellman
1992
as Narrator
1993
as Narrator
1992
as Narrator
1993
as Narrator
1993
as Narrator
1994
1993
as Narrator
1992
as Narrator
1993
as Narrator
1993
as Narrator
1992
as Narrator
1992
as Narrator
1994
as Narrator
1995
1992
as Narrator
1991
as Narrator
1997
as Jake Krutz
1986
as Earl Linton
1977
as Postman
1987
as August T. Mirch
1983
as Taxi Driver
1998
as Santa Claus
1987
as Harry Howler
1977
as Little Bilham
1985
as Walter Adams
1980
as 1st. Punter
1985
as 1st Radio Actor
2002
as Senor Balustrade (voice)
1985
as Ben
1993
as Julian Reilly
1986
as Reporter
1981
as Winston Churchill
1995
as Al
2005
as Frank Rich
1978
as Charles Frohman
1995
as judge Marulic
1973
as Kono's Henchman
1998
as Car Dealer
2000
as Sergei Diaghilev
1982
as Caliban
1991
as Cardinal Verucci
1997
as The Man
1979
as U.S. Embassy Photographer
1978
as Lloyd Edens
1976
as Party Guest
1994
as Bark Troll / Falkor (voice)
1993
as Senator Garrus
1981
as Mel
2005
as Marshall Walker
1999
as Sir Percival Lloyd
2002
as Uncle George
2001
as Barney
1984
as Lou Delmart
1980
as Kolossov
1999
as Narrator (voice)
1992
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