William Hootkins

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-07-05 (57 years old)

Deathday

2005-10-23

Place of Birth

Dallas, Texas, USA

William Hootkins

Biography

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...

Acting

1977

Star Wars

as Red Six (Porkins)

1981

1989

Batman

as Eckhardt

1995

Death Machine

as John Carpenter

1980

Flash Gordon

as Munson

1989

Monkeys

as James Hoffman

1979

The Lady Vanishes

as Party Guest

1992

Dust Devil

as Capt. Cornelius Beyman

2004

Blessed

as Detective Lauderdale

1986

Biggles

as Chuck

1990

Hardware

as Lincoln Wineberg Jr.

1980

Bad Timing

as Col. Taylor

1979

1982

1977

Valentino

as Fatty

1993

The Cement Garden

as Commander Hunt (voice)

1985

White Nights

as Chuck Malarek

1981

Sphinx

as Don, Tour Guide

2000

Animated Epics: Moby Dick

as Starbucks (voice)

2001

The Breed

as Fusco

1987

1991

Hear My Song

as Mr. X

1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming

as Sgt. Fitzpatrick

1987

1986

A State of Emergency

as Earl Linton

1987

1983

1998

1977

The Ambassadors

as Little Bilham

1985

Zina

as Walter Adams

1980

Hussy

as 1st. Punter

1985

Dreamchild

as 1st Radio Actor

2002

Hamilton Mattress

as Senor Balustrade (voice)

1985

Water

as Ben

1993

The Milky Life

as Julian Reilly

1986

1995

2005

Colour Me Kubrick

as Frank Rich

1978

The Lost Boys

as Charles Frohman

1995

Virgin Mary

as judge Marulic

1973

Big Zapper

as Kono's Henchman

1998

1982

The Tempest

as Caliban

1991

The Pope Must Die

as Cardinal Verucci

1979

Charlie Muffin

as U.S. Embassy Photographer

1978

1976

The Paradise Run

as Party Guest

1994

The NeverEnding Story III

as Bark Troll / Falkor (voice)

1993

Age of Treason

as Senator Garrus

2005

Dear Wendy

as Marshall Walker

1999

The Omega Code

as Sir Percival Lloyd

2002

2001

1984

Black Carrion

as Lou Delmart

1980

Rabbit Pie Day

as Kolossov

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