Bo Hopkins

Born: 1938-02-02 in Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Died: 2022-05-28

Known For: Acting

Biography

Bo Hopkins (February 2, 1938 – May 28, 2022) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the The Wild Bunch (1969), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Getaway (1972), American Graffiti (1973), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Killer Elite (1975), Posse (1975), A Small Town in Texas (1976), Midnight Express (1978), and More American Graffiti (1979). After Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). He starred or co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies of the mid-1970s, including Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975), The Runaway Barge (1975), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), The Invasion of Johnson County (1976), Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), Woman on the Run (1977), Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978), Crisis in Sun Valley (1978) and The Busters (1978). When Gretchen Corbett left the television series The Rockford Files in 1978, Hopkins replaced her character as Rockford's attorney John Cooper, ultimately appearing in 3 episodes. In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel. His many other appearances on television included in miniseries Aspen (1977) and Beggarman, Thief (1979), and in episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox, Murder, She Wrote and Doc Elliot. Hopkins has a role in the video game Nuclear Strike. He plays Colonel LeMonde, a mercenary who steals a nuclear weapon. The 'Strike' team tracks him through Southeast Asia.Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2003

Shade as Lieutenant Scarne
Pitcher and the Pin-Up as Coach Stangel

2002

City of Ghosts as (Uncredited)
Cowboy Up as Ray Drupp

2001

A Crack in the Floor as Sheriff Talmidge
Choosing Matthias as Doc

2000

Big Brother Trouble as Oddo
Vice as Jamie Barnett
The Thundering 8th as Col. Thompson

1999

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money as Sheriff Lawson
Time Served as Mr. D
Getting to Know You as Officer Caminetto

1998

Phantoms as Agent Hawthorne
The Newton Boys as K.P. Aldrich
Lunker Lake as Mitch Swindell

1997

The Angry Beavers
U Turn as Ed
Painted Hero as Brownie
Fever Lake as Sheriff Harris

1996

Uncle Sam as Sgt. Twining
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal as Rip Bartlett
R.I.O.T.: The Movie as Harry McQue

1995

OP Center as Dan McCaskey
The Feminine Touch as Capt. Hogan
OP Center as Dan McCaskey
Riders in the Storm as Billy Van Owen

1994

Radioland Murders as Billy's Father
Texas Payback as Sheriff Bishop
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone as Rattlesnake Reynolds
Cheyenne Warrior as Jack Andrews

1993

The Ballad of Little Jo as Frank Badger

1992

Center of the Web as Frank Allesendro
Inside Monkey Zetterland as Mike Zetterland
The Legend of Wolf Mountain as Steven Haynes

1991

Blood Ties as Chief Hunter

1990

The Final Alliance as Sheriff Whistler
Big Bad John as Lester
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell! as Sheriff Jon Farlock

1989

Trapper County War as Sheriff Sam Frost
The Bounty Hunter as Sheriff Bennett
President's Target as Marty Rogers

1988

Nightmare at Noon as Reilly

1986

Matlock as Sheriff
A Smoky Mountain Christmas as Sheriff John Jensen
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills as Jud

1985

What Comes Around as Tom Hawkins
Dark Horse

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Scott Larkin
Crazy like a Fox as Lowell
Finder of Lost Loves as William Davis / Drew Gilbert
Night Shadows as Sheriff Will Stewart
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind as Self

1983

The A-Team as Charles Drew
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
The Hitchhiker as Lew Bridgeman
Sweet Sixteen as Sheriff Dan Burke
Ghost Dancing as Dave Groves

1982

1981

Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel

1980

Casino as Stoney
Rodeo Girl as Will Garrett
The Plutonium Incident as Art Reeves

1979

Supertrain as Damien O'Toole
More American Graffiti as Little Joe
Beggarman, Thief as Bunny Dwyer
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang as Billy Doolin
Beggarman, Thief as Bunny Dwyer

1978

Midnight Express as Tex
The Fifth Floor as Carl
Crisis in Sun Valley as Buchanan
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie as Eddie Lee Haskell

1977

Aspen as Budd Townsend
Tentacles as Will Gleason

1976

Charlie's Angels as Wes Anderson
Charlie's Angels as Beau Creel
A Small Town in Texas as Sheriff Duke
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway as Swan
The Invasion of Johnson County as George Dunning

1975

Posse as Wesley
The Killer Elite as Jerome Miller
The Day of the Locust as Earle Shoop
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley as Prosecuting attorney
The Nickel Ride as Turner
The Runaway Barge as Earl Owens
The Kansas City Massacre as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

1974

1973

American Graffiti as Joe Young
Doc Elliot
White Lightning as Ray Boone
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing as Billy

1972

The Rookies
The Getaway as Frank Jackson
The Culpepper Cattle Co. as Dixie Brick
The Only Way Home as Orval

1971

Nichols as Kansas
Macho Callahan as Yancy
Cat Ballou as Clay

1970

The Moonshine War as Bud Blackwell
Monte Walsh as Jumpin' Joe Joslin

1969

The Wild Bunch as Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
The Bridge at Remagen as Cpl. Grebs
The Thousand Plane Raid as Capt. Douglass

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Jeb
The Mod Squad
Dayton's Devils as Truck Driver

1967

1966

The Rat Patrol as Bo Randall

1965

The Wild Wild West as Zack Garrison

1962

The Virginian as Will

1961

The Mike Douglas Show as Self

1960

The Andy Griffith Show as George

1959

Bonanza as Stretch Logan

1955

Gunsmoke as Harper Haggen