Timothy Bottoms
Born
August 30, 1951 (73 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
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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.
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Barry Greenwood
2020
The Shed
Ellis
2019
Welcome to the Men's Group
Larry
2016
How Not to Propose
Rick
2015
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Mike Swift
2012
The One-Nighter
Louie
2012
Pound of Flesh
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2011
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Self
2010
The Land That Time Forgot
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2009
Call of the Wild
Heep
2009
Bound By a Secret
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2009
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
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2009
Parasomnia
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2008
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2008
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2008
Lone Rider
Gus
2008
Holiday in Handcuffs
Dad Chandler
2007
Along the Way
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2007
Private Practice
Irwin · (1 episode)
2007
Shanghai Kiss
Adelaide's Father
2007
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
Joe Bonham (video "One")
2006
Deceit
Martin Ford
2006
Vampire Bats
Hank Poelker
2005
Pocket Angel
Himself
2005
Grey's Anatomy
Carl Murphy · (1 episode)
2005
Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Clarence
2005
Paradise Texas
Mack Cameron
2005
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith
2004
The Girl Next Door
Mr. Kidman
2004
Illusion Infinity
Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan
2004
The $cheme
Rotunno
2003
NCIS
Ritt Everett · (1 episode)
2003
Elephant
Mr. McFarland
2003
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
George W. Bush
2003
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
George W. Bush (uncredited)
2002
That's My Bush!
George W. Bush · (8 episodes)
2001
Murder Scene
Detective Stepnoski
2000
Held for Ransom
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2000
The Hiding Place
Jack
2000
The Prince and the Surfer
Johnny Canty
1999
Diamondbacks
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1999
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
Self
1999
X-Treme Teens
John
1999
John Glenn: American Hero
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1998
That '70s Show
Vice Principal Cole · (1 episode)
1998
The Man in the Iron Mask
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1998
Ava's Magical Adventure
Slayton
1998
No Rest for the Wicked
Father Jeremy
1998
Maximum Justice
Salvatore Solleto
1998
Black Sea 213
Dean
1998
The View
Self · (1 episode)
1997
Absolute Force
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1997
Hourglass
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1997
Tiger
Larry
1997
Mr. Atlas
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1997
The Prince
1996
Uncle Sam
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1996
Death Game
Jack
1996
Total Force
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1996
Lone Tiger
Marcus
1996
Horses and Champions
Ben Choice
1996
Ringer
Clay
1996
Fox Hunt
Frank
1996
Yakuza Connection
Ward Derderian
1995
Top Dog
Nelson Houseman
1995
500 Nations
(8 episodes)
1995
Ripper Man
Charles Walkan
1995
Desperate Obsession
1995
Personal Vendetta
Zach Blackwell
1995
Digger
Sam Corlett
1993
Land of the Lost
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1991
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
Self
1991
Texasville
Sonny Crawford
1990
Istanbul
Frank Collins
1989
Return from the River Kwai
Seaman Miller
1989
The Drifter
Arthur
1988
Freddy's Nightmares
(1 episode)
1988
A Case of Honor
Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case
1988
Mio in the Land of Faraway
The King
1987
Island Sons
Tim Faraday
1987
The Fantasist
Danny Sullivan
1986
Invaders from Mars
George Gardner
1986
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Father Thomas O'Neil
1986
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
Jack Ringtree
1986
The Twilight Zone
(1 episode)
1985
The Sea Serpent
Pedro Fontán
1985
What Waits Below
Major Elbert Stevens
1984
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Morris Frank
1984
The Census Taker
Pete
1984
The Hitchhiker
Peter · (1 episode)
1983
Hambone and Hillie
Michael Radcliffe
1983
Tin Man
Casey
1983
The High Country
Jim
1981
East of Eden
Adam Trask · (3 episodes)
1981
Escape
Dwight Worker
1980
A Shining Season
John Baker
1979
Hurricane
Jack Sanford
1979
The Gift of Love
Rudi Miller
1978
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II
John Boothe
1978
Rollercoaster
Young Man
1977
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Miles Eastin · (4 episodes)
1976
A Small Town in Texas
Poke Jackson
1976
The Story of David
David
1976
Operation: Daybreak
Jan Kubis
1975
Dinah!
Self · (1 episode)
1974
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Vrooder
1974
The White Dawn
Daggett
1974
The Paper Chase
James T. Hart
1973
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Walter Elbertson
1973
Look Homeward, Angel
Eugene Gant
1972
The Last Picture Show
Sonny Crawford
1971
Johnny Got His Gun
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1971