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