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
Star Wars
(Red Six (Porkins))
Raiders of the Lost Ark
(Major Eaton)
Batman
(Eckhardt)
A River Runs Through It
(Murphy)
Death Machine
(John Carpenter)
Flash Gordon
(Munson)
Monkeys
(James Hoffman)
The Lady Vanishes
(Party Guest)
Dust Devil
(Capt. Cornelius Beyman)
Blessed
(Detective Lauderdale)
Biggles
(Chuck)
Hardware
(Lincoln Wineberg Jr.)
Bad Timing
(Col. Taylor)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
(Kiril)
Hanover Street
(Beef)
Trail of the Pink Panther
(Taxi Driver)
Valentino
(Fatty)
The Cement Garden
(Commander Hunt (voice))
White Nights
(Chuck Malarek)
Sphinx
(Don, Tour Guide)
Animated Epics: Moby Dick
(Starbucks (voice))
The Breed
(Fusco)
American Gothic
(Teddy)
Hear My Song
(Mr. X)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Sgt. Fitzpatrick)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
(Myron Spellman)
Predators of the Wild: Lion
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Giant Tarantula
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Shark
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Polar Bear
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Wolf
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Crocodiles and Alligators
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Hawk
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Grizzly Bear
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Tiger
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Snake
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Cheetah and Leopard
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Killer Whale
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: African Survival
(Narrator)
Time Life Animal Oddities: The Meanest Animal Alive
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Hunters and Hunted
(Narrator)
Predators of the Wild: Bats
(Narrator)
This World, Then the Fireworks
(Jake Krutz)
A State of Emergency
(Earl Linton)
Come Back, Little Sheba
(Postman)
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
(August T. Mirch)
Curse of the Pink Panther
(Taxi Driver)
Like Father, Like Santa
(Santa Claus)
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
(Harry Howler)
The Ambassadors
(Little Bilham)
Zina
(Walter Adams)
Hussy
(1st. Punter)
Dreamchild
(1st Radio Actor)
Mars: Pioneering the Planet
Hamilton Mattress
(Senor Balustrade (voice))
Water
(Ben)
The Milky Life
(Julian Reilly)
Haunted Honeymoon
(Reporter)
The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
(Winston Churchill)
Funny Bones
(Al)
Colour Me Kubrick
(Frank Rich)
The Lost Boys
(Charles Frohman)
Virgin Mary
(judge Marulic)
Big Zapper
(Kono's Henchman)
Something to Believe In
(Car Dealer)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
(Sergei Diaghilev)
The Tempest
(Caliban)
The Pope Must Diet
(Cardinal Verucci)
Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
(The Man)
Charlie Muffin
(U.S. Embassy Photographer)
The Billion Dollar Bubble
(Lloyd Edens)
The Paradise Run
(Party Guest)
The NeverEnding Story III
(Bark Troll / Falkor (voice))
Age of Treason
(Senator Garrus)
Before Water Lilies
(Mel)
Dear Wendy
(Marshall Walker)
The Omega Code
(Sir Percival Lloyd)
The Magnificent Ambersons
(Uncle George)
Town & Country
(Barney)
Black Carrion
(Lou Delmart)
Rabbit Pie Day
(Kolossov)
Survivor Science: The Dead Man Walking
(Narrator (voice))
Remington Steele
(Chester Harcourt)
Bergerac
(Eugene Field)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Peter Bligh)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
(Diaghilev)
Cagney & Lacey
Lillie
Van der Valk
(Frank Garvin)
Yanks Go Home
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
(Lou Delmart)
Agatha Christie's Poirot
(FBI Agent Burt)
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye
(Frank Dorr)
Justice League
(Commander (voice))
Clouds of Glory
(Reverend Dewey)
NOVA
(Voice of Methuselah)
The West Wing
(U.S. Translator)
Laurence Olivier Presents
(Postman)
Taxi
(Liquor Authority Agent)
The Lost Boys
(Charles Frohman)
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
(Loch Ness Monster (voice))
Blackadder
(Monk)
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
(Hamilton Betts)
Bergerac
(Karl Goldman)
Iron Man
(Crimson Dynamo (voice))
Extreme Machines
(Narrator)
The New Statesman
(Willoughby Guzzler)
American Playhouse
(Phil Cooper)
American Gangster
(Narrator)
Tales of the Unexpected
(Harry Chester)
Playhouse
(Mr. Bowles)