William Hootkins: Biografía, Filmografía y actores con los que más ha trabajado

Trabajo principal: Interpretación

Edad: 76 años

Lugar de nacimiento: Dallas, Texas, USA

Fecha de nacimiento: 05 de julio de 1948

Películas destacadas de William Hootkins

William Hootkins interpreta a Red Six (Porkins) en La guerra de las galaxias — La guerra de las galaxias
*Red Six (Porkins)*

William Hootkins interpreta a Eckhardt en Batman — Batman
*Eckhardt*

William Hootkins interpreta a Major Eaton en En busca del arca perdida — En busca del arca perdida
*Major Eaton*

William Hootkins interpreta a Kiril en La isla del Dr. Moreau — La isla del Dr. Moreau
*Kiril*

William Hootkins interpreta a Murphy en El río de la vida — El río de la vida
*Murphy*

William Hootkins interpreta a Chuck Malarek en Noches de sol — Noches de sol
*Chuck Malarek*

William Hootkins interpreta a Harry Howler en Superman IV: En busca de la paz — Superman IV: En busca de la paz
*Harry Howler*

William Hootkins interpreta a Munson en Flash Gordon — Flash Gordon
*Munson*

William Hootkins interpreta a Sir Percival Lloyd en Código Omega — Código Omega
*Sir Percival Lloyd*

Biografía de 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 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 the Death Star in "Star Wars", scientist Topol's bumbling oaf assistant in "Flash Gordon", Major Eaton, sent by the US government in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", one of Rod Steiger's demented sons in "American Gothic", a corrupt police lieutenant in "Batman", a disgusting sleazy voyeur in "Hardware", a coarse South African police chief in "Dust Devil", the mysterious and duplicitous Mr. X in "Hear My Song", a haughty corporate executive in "Death Machine", Santa Claus in "Like Father, Like Santa", and an opera-singing vampire in "The Breed". Moreover, Hootkins had small parts in two "Pink Panther" pictures: he's a taxi driver in both "The Trail of the Pink Panther" and "Curse of the Pink Panther".

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