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