Name
Timothy Bottoms
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1951-08-30 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Timothy James Bottoms is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in Johnny Got His Gun; Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show; The Paper Chase; and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom That's My Bush!; in the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and the docudrama DC 9/11: Time of Crisis.
Bottoms made his film debut in 1971 as Joe Bonham in Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun. The same year, he appeared alongside his brother Sam in The Last Picture Show. (He portrayed the same character in the 1990 sequel Texasville). In 1973's The Paper Chase, he starred as Harvard law student Hart facing the fearsome Professor Kingsfield (John Houseman). Among the other films he has appeared in are Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, Operation Daybreak, A Small Town in Texas, Rollercoaster, Hurricane, Invaders from Mars and Elephant.
Bottoms has portrayed U.S. President George W. Bush in three widely varying productions. In 2000 and 2001, he played a parody of Bush in the Comedy Central sitcom That's My Bush!; he subsequently appeared as Bush in a cameo appearance in the family film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. Finally, following the September 11 attacks, Bottoms once again played Bush, this time in a serious fashion, in the TV film DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, one of the first films to be based upon the attacks.
During an episode of the Fox television show That '70s Show in which a tornado warning has been issued and the students of the high school are trapped, Bottoms is seen as the panicking principal. He appeared in a recurring role during the first season of the FX series Dirt as Gibson Horne, who owned the magazine that series main character Lucy Spiller worked for.
He also co-produced the documentary Picture This – The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas, a behind-the-scenes work about the making of the films The Last Picture Show and Texasville. In the documentary, he revealed that he had a crush on his co-star Cybill Shepherd during The Last Picture Show, but she did not reciprocate his romantic feelings, even though she said in a separate interview that she found him "very attractive". He was also heavily featured in the Metallica video for "One", which featured footage of the film Johnny Got His Gun.
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- 2003 Elephant as Mr. McFarland
- 2004 The Girl Next Door as Mr. Kidman
- 1977 Rollercoaster as Young Man
- 2009 The Land That Time Forgot as Captain Burroughs
- 2004 Ike: Countdown to D-Day as Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith
- 1974 The White Dawn as Daggett
- 1986 Invaders from Mars as George Gardner
- 1971 The Last Picture Show as Sonny Crawford
- 2003 The $cheme as Rotunno
- 1996 Uncle Sam as Donald Crandall
- 2009 Call of the Wild as Heep
- 2008 The Governor's Wife as Sheriff Carl Lovett
- 1984 What Waits Below as Major Elbert Stevens
- 1995 Top Dog as Nelson Houseman
- 1987 Mio in the Land of Faraway as The King
- 1973 The Paper Chase as James T. Hart
- 1986 In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro as Jack Ringtree
- 2006 Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 as Joe Bonham (video "One")
- 2006 Deceit as Martin Ford
- 2007 Shanghai Kiss as Adelaide's Father
- 1971 Johnny Got His Gun as Joe Bonham
- 1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing as Walter Elbertson
- 2005 Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't as Clarence
- 2011 Pound of Flesh as Cameron Morris
- 1998 Ava's Magical Adventure as Slayton
- 2008 Parasomnia as Dr. Corso
- 1996 Ringer as Clay
- 1998 Diamondbacks as Ed Williams
- 1986 The Fantasist as Danny Sullivan
- 1990 Texasville as Sonny Crawford
- 1975 Operation: Daybreak as Jan Kubis
- 2005 Paradise Texas as Mack Cameron
- 1979 Hurricane as Jack Sanford
- 1978 The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II as John Boothe
- 1989 Return from the River Kwai as Seaman Miller
- 2005 Vampire Bats as Hank Poelker
- 1996 Death Game as Jack
- 1995 Yakuza Connection as Ward Derderian
- 1997 Absolute Force as Lt. John Drake
- 1985 The Sea Serpent as Pedro Fontán
- 1997 Hourglass as Jurgen Brauner
- 1978 The Gift of Love as Rudi Miller
- 1988 The Drifter as Arthur
- 1989 Istanbul as Frank Collins
- 2000 Held for Ransom as Fred Donovan
- 1984 Love Leads the Way: A True Story as Morris Frank
- 2003 DC 9/11: Time of Crisis as George W. Bush
- 1996 Fox Hunt as Frank
- 1976 A Small Town in Texas as Poke Jackson
- 1986 Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun as Father Thomas O'Neil
- 1972 Look Homeward, Angel as Eugene Gant
- 1988 A Case of Honor as Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case
- 1996 Total Force as Drake
- 1984 The Census Taker as Pete
- 1996 Lone Tiger as Marcus
- 1998 Tiger as Larry
- 2007 Along the Way as Michael McCaffery
- 1974 The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder as Vrooder
- 2000 Murder Scene as Detective Stepnoski
- 1993 Digger as Sam Corlett
- 1987 Island Sons as Tim Faraday
- 1983 Tin Man as Casey
- 1998 No Rest for the Wicked as Father Jeremy
- 2007 Holiday in Handcuffs as Dad Chandler
- 1991 Picture This as Self
- 1998 Maximum Justice as Salvatore Solleto
- 1995 Ripper Man as Charles Walkan
- 1981 The High Country as Jim
- 1976 The Story of David as David
- 2002 The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course as George W. Bush (uncredited)
- 1999 The Last Picture Show: A Look Back as Self
- 2009 Bound By a Secret as Will
- 1996 The Prince
- 1999 X-Treme Teens as John
- 2012 The One-Nighter as Louie
- 1998 The Man in the Iron Mask as Fouquet
- 1998 Black Sea 213 as Dean
- 2012 I Married Who? as Mike Swift
- 1979 A Shining Season as John Baker
- 1995 Desperate Obsession
- 2020 Tar as Barry Greenwood
- 1998 John Glenn: American Hero as Narrator
- 1996 Horses and Champions as Ben Choice
- 2008 Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance as Thomas
- 2019 The Shed as Ellis
- 2009 An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong as Paul Maxwell
- 1980 Escape as Dwight Worker
- 2010 BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
- 2000 The Hiding Place as Jack
- 2004 Illusion Infinity as Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan
- 1995 Personal Vendetta as Zach Blackwell
- 2015 How Not to Propose as Rick
- 2016 Welcome to the Men's Group as Larry
- 1999 The Prince and the Surfer as Johnny Canty
- 1997 Mr. Atlas as Phillip Frodden
- 1983 Hambone and Hillie as Michael Radcliffe
- 2005 Pocket Angel as Himself
- 2008 Lone Rider as Gus
- 2014 Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as George Gardner (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2001 That's My Bush! ( 8 episodes ) as George W. Bush
- 2005 Grey's Anatomy ( 1 episode ) as Carl Murphy
- 1985 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode )
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1988 Freddy's Nightmares ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Franklin
- 2003 NCIS ( 1 episode ) as Ritt Everett
- 1995 500 Nations ( 8 episodes )
- 1983 The Hitchhiker ( 1 episode ) as Peter
- 1991 Land of the Lost ( 26 episodes ) as Tom Porter
- 1981 East of Eden ( 3 episodes ) as Adam Trask
- 1976 Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers ( 4 episodes ) as Miles Eastin
- 1998 That '70s Show ( 1 episode ) as Vice Principal Cole
- 1974 Dinah! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2007 Private Practice ( 1 episode ) as Irwin
- 2007 Dirt ( 2 episodes ) as Gibson Horne
- 1976 The Story of David ( 2 episodes ) as David
