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