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
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Extreme Machines
as Narrator
Episodes: 57
First Aired: Apr 26, 1997
The Lost Boys
as Charles Frohman
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Oct 11, 1978
American Gangster
as Narrator
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Aug 10, 2000
Tales of the Unexpected
as Peter Bligh
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 24, 1979
Remington Steele
as Chester Harcourt
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 01, 1982
Bergerac
as Eugene Field
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 18, 1981
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Diaghilev
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 04, 1992
Van der Valk
as Frank Garvin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1972
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
as Lou Delmart
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 05, 1984
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as FBI Agent Burt
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 08, 1989
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
as Frank Dorr
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 16, 1983
Justice League
as Commander (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 17, 2001
Clouds of Glory
as Reverend Dewey
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 09, 1978
NOVA
as Voice of Methuselah
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 03, 1974
The West Wing
as U.S. Translator
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 22, 1999
Laurence Olivier Presents
as Postman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 05, 1976
Taxi
as Liquor Authority Agent
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 12, 1978
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
as Loch Ness Monster (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 29, 1994
Blackadder
as Monk
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 15, 1983
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
as Hamilton Betts
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 09, 1983
Bergerac
as Karl Goldman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 18, 1981
Iron Man
as Crimson Dynamo (voice)
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1994
The New Statesman
as Willoughby Guzzler
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 13, 1987
American Playhouse
as Phil Cooper
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 12, 1982
Tales of the Unexpected
as Harry Chester
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 24, 1979
Playhouse
as Mr. Bowles
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 13, 1974
Cagney & Lacey
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 25, 1982
Lillie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 24, 1978
Yanks Go Home
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 22, 1976
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