Bo Hopkins
85 movies · 32 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Feb 2, 1938
- Died
- May 28, 2022 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Greenville, South Carolina, USA
- Also known as
- William Mauldin Hopkins · بو هاپکینز
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).
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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.
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Known for
Bo Hopkins: movies and TV shows
Acting (117)
- 2020 Hillbilly Elegy
as Papaw
- 2013 A Little Christmas Business
as Coach Morris
- 2003 Pitcher and the Pin-Up
as Coach Stangel
- 2003 Shade
as Lieutenant Scarne
- 2002 City of Ghosts
as (Uncredited)
- 2002 Cowboy Up
as Ray Drupp
- 2001 A Crack in the Floor
as Sheriff Talmidge
- 2001 Choosing Matthias
as Doc
- 2000 Vice
as Jamie Barnett
- 2000 Big Brother Trouble
as Oddo
- 2000 The Thundering 8th
as Col. Thompson
- 1999 Time Served
as Mr. D
- 1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
as Sheriff Lawson
- 1999 Getting to Know You
as Officer Caminetto
- 1998 Lunker Lake
as Mitch Swindell
- 1998 The Newton Boys
as K.P. Aldrich
- 1998 Phantoms
as Agent Hawthorne
- 1997 Fever Lake
as Sheriff Harris
- 1997 U Turn
as Ed
- 1997 Painted Hero
as Brownie
- 1997
- 1996 Uncle Sam
as Sgt. Twining
- 1996 Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
as Rip Bartlett
- 1996 R.I.O.T.: The Movie
as Harry McQue
- 1995 Riders in the Storm
as Billy Van Owen
- 1995 OP Center
as Dan McCaskey
- 1995
- 1995 The Feminine Touch
as Capt. Hogan
- 1994 Texas Payback
as Sheriff Bishop
- 1994 Radioland Murders
as Billy's Father
- 1994 Cheyenne Warrior
as Jack Andrews
- 1994 Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Rattlesnake Reynolds
- 1993 The Ballad of Little Jo
as Frank Badger
- 1992 Inside Monkey Zetterland
as Mike Zetterland
- 1992 The Legend of Wolf Mountain
as Steven Haynes
- 1992 Center of the Web
as Frank Allesendro
- 1991 Blood Ties
as Chief Hunter
- 1990 Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!
as Sheriff Jon Farlock
- 1990 The Final Alliance
as Sheriff Whistler
- 1990 Big Bad John
as Lester
- 1989 The Bounty Hunter
as Sheriff Bennett
- 1989 President's Target
as Marty Rogers
- 1989 Trapper County War
as Sheriff Sam Frost
- 1988 Nightmare at Noon
as Reilly
- 1986 A Smoky Mountain Christmas
as Sheriff John Jensen
- 1986 Houston: The Legend of Texas
as Col. Sidney Sherman
- 1986
- 1986
- 1985 What Comes Around
as Tom Hawkins
- 1985
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984 Night Shadows
as Sheriff Will Stewart
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983 Ghost Dancing
as Dave Groves
- 1983
- 1982 Sweet Sixteen
as Sheriff Dan Burke
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981
- 1980 Rodeo Girl
as Will Garrett
- 1980 Casino
as Stoney
- 1980 The Plutonium Incident
as Art Reeves
- 1979
- 1979 The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
as Billy Doolin
- 1979 More American Graffiti
as Little Joe
- 1979
- 1978 The Fifth Floor
as Carl
- 1978 Midnight Express
as Tex
- 1978 Crisis in Sun Valley
as Buchanan
- 1978 Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
as Eddie Lee Haskell
- 1977
- 1977 Tentacles
as Will Gleason
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976 The Invasion of Johnson County
as George Dunning
- 1976 A Small Town in Texas
as Sheriff Duke
- 1976 Charlie's Angels
as Beau Creel
- 1975 The Killer Elite
as Jerome Miller
- 1975 The Kansas City Massacre
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
- 1975 Posse
as Wesley
- 1975 The Day of the Locust
as Earle Shoop
- 1975 The Runaway Barge
as Earl Owens
- 1975 The Nickel Ride
as Turner
- 1975 Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
as Prosecuting attorney
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974
- 1973
- 1973 American Graffiti
as Joe Young
- 1973 White Lightning
as Ray Boone
- 1973 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
as Billy
- 1972 The Getaway
as Frank Jackson
- 1972
- 1972 The Only Way Home
as Orval
- 1972 The Culpepper Cattle Co.
as Dixie Brick
- 1971
- 1971 Cat Ballou
as Clay
- 1971 Macho Callahan
as Yancy
- 1970 Monte Walsh
as Jumpin' Joe Joslin
- 1970 The Moonshine War
as Bud Blackwell
- 1969 The Thousand Plane Raid
as Capt. Douglass
- 1969 The Bridge at Remagen
as Cpl. Grebs
- 1969 The Wild Bunch
as Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
- 1969
- 1968 Dayton's Devils
as Truck Driver
- 1968
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966
- 1965
- 1962
- 1960
- 1959
- 1955
Behind the camera (1)
- 2003 Shade
Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 2025
- 2005
- 1984
- 1961 The Mike Douglas Show
1 episode