Timothy Bottoms
Born: 1951-08-30 in Santa Barbara, California, USA
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Timothy Bottoms, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2020
- Tar as Barry Greenwood
2019
- The Shed as Ellis
2016
- Welcome to the Men's Group as Larry
2015
- How Not to Propose as Rick
2014
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as George Gardner (archive footage) (uncredited)
2012
- I Married Who? as Mike Swift
- The One-Nighter as Louie
2011
- Pound of Flesh as Cameron Morris
2010
2009
- An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong as Paul Maxwell
- Call of the Wild as Heep
- The Land That Time Forgot as Captain Burroughs
- Bound By a Secret as Will
2008
- Parasomnia as Dr. Corso
- Lone Rider as Gus
- The Governor's Wife as Sheriff Carl Lovett
- Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance as Thomas
2007
- Private Practice as Irwin
- Dirt as Gibson Horne
- Shanghai Kiss as Adelaide's Father
- Holiday in Handcuffs as Dad Chandler
- Along the Way as Michael McCaffery
2006
- Deceit as Martin Ford
- Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 as Joe Bonham (video "One")
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Carl Murphy
- Vampire Bats as Hank Poelker
- Pocket Angel as Himself
- Paradise Texas as Mack Cameron
- Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't as Clarence
2004
- The Girl Next Door as Mr. Kidman
- Ike: Countdown to D-Day as Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith
- Illusion Infinity as Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan
2003
- NCIS as Ritt Everett
- Elephant as Mr. McFarland
- The $cheme as Rotunno
- DC 9/11: Time of Crisis as George W. Bush
2002
- The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course as George W. Bush (uncredited)
2001
- That's My Bush! as George W. Bush
2000
- Held for Ransom as Fred Donovan
- Murder Scene as Detective Stepnoski
- The Hiding Place as Jack
1999
- X-Treme Teens as John
- The Last Picture Show: A Look Back as Self
- The Prince and the Surfer as Johnny Canty
1998
- That '70s Show as Vice Principal Cole
- Diamondbacks as Ed Williams
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Fouquet
- Black Sea 213 as Dean
- Maximum Justice as Salvatore Solleto
- Ava's Magical Adventure as Slayton
- No Rest for the Wicked as Father Jeremy
- Tiger as Larry
- John Glenn: American Hero as Narrator
1997
- The View as Self
- Mr. Atlas as Phillip Frodden
- Absolute Force as Lt. John Drake
- Hourglass as Jurgen Brauner
1996
- Ringer as Clay
- Uncle Sam as Donald Crandall
- Total Force as Drake
- Death Game as Jack
- The Prince
- Fox Hunt as Frank
- Lone Tiger as Marcus
- Horses and Champions as Ben Choice
1995
- 500 Nations
- Top Dog as Nelson Houseman
- Ripper Man as Charles Walkan
- Personal Vendetta as Zach Blackwell
- Desperate Obsession
- Yakuza Connection as Ward Derderian
1993
- Digger as Sam Corlett
1991
- Land of the Lost as Tom Porter
- Picture This as Self
1990
- Texasville as Sonny Crawford
1989
- Return from the River Kwai as Seaman Miller
- Istanbul as Frank Collins
1988
- Freddy's Nightmares as Mr. Franklin
- The Drifter as Arthur
- A Case of Honor as Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case
1987
- Mio in the Land of Faraway as The King
- Island Sons as Tim Faraday
1986
- Invaders from Mars as George Gardner
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun as Father Thomas O'Neil
- The Fantasist as Danny Sullivan
- In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro as Jack Ringtree
1985
- The Twilight Zone
- The Sea Serpent as Pedro Fontán
1984
- What Waits Below as Major Elbert Stevens
- Love Leads the Way: A True Story as Morris Frank
- The Census Taker as Pete
1983
- The Hitchhiker as Peter
- Tin Man as Casey
- Hambone and Hillie as Michael Radcliffe
1981
- East of Eden as Adam Trask
- The High Country as Jim
1980
- Escape as Dwight Worker
1979
- Hurricane as Jack Sanford
- A Shining Season as John Baker
1978
- The Gift of Love as Rudi Miller
- The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II as John Boothe
1977
- Rollercoaster as Young Man
1976
- Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers as Miles Eastin
- The Story of David as David
- The Story of David as David
- A Small Town in Texas as Poke Jackson
1975
- Operation: Daybreak as Jan Kubis
1974
- Dinah! as Self - Guest
- The White Dawn as Daggett
- The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder as Vrooder
1973
- The Paper Chase as James T. Hart
- Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing as Walter Elbertson
1972
- Look Homeward, Angel as Eugene Gant
1971
- The Last Picture Show as Sonny Crawford
- Johnny Got His Gun as Joe Bonham