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Timothy Bottoms

Actor, ProducerBorn August 30, 1951 (73 years)
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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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Tar
  • Top Dog
  • Freddy's Nightmares
  • The Land That Time Forgot
  • Call of the Wild
  • The Governor's Wife
  • Total Force
  • Tin Man
  • Welcome to the Men's Group
  • 1 Nighter
  • Absolute Force
  • Ava's Magical Adventure

Known For

  • The Last Picture Show
  • The Girl Next Door
  • Johnny Got His Gun
  • The Paper Chase
  • Tar
  • Invaders from Mars
  • Holiday in Handcuffs
  • Operation Daybreak
  • Rollercoaster
  • That's My Bush!
  • Mio in the Land of Faraway
  • Ike: Countdown to D-Day
  • The Land That Time Forgot
  • Land of the Lost (1991)
  • DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
  • Vampire Bats
  • The Shed
  • Top Dog
  • Texasville
  • Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
  • The White Dawn
  • A Small Town in Texas
  • Uncle Sam
  • An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong

Filmography

2020
Tar · as Barry Greenwood
2019
The Shed · as Ellis
2016
2015
2014
2014
Sweet Surrender · as Jerry's Dad
2013
The Bridge (2013) (TV Series) · as Arliss Froome
2012
1 Nighter · as Louie
2012
I Married Who? · as Mike Swift
2010
Pound of Flesh · as Cameron Morris
2009
The Land That Time Forgot · as Captain Burroughs
2009
2009
2009
2008
Parasomnia · as Dr. Corso
2008
2008
Lone Rider · as Gus
2008
The Governor's Wife · as Sheriff Carl Lovett
2007
Holiday in Handcuffs · as Dad Chandler
2007
Along the Way · as Michael Mccaffery
2007
Private Practice (TV Series) · as Irwin
2007
Shanghai Kiss · as Adelaide's Father
2007
Dirt (TV Series) · as Gibson Horne
2006
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 · as Joe Bonham (video "one")
2006
Deceit · as Martin Ford
2006
2006
Paradise, Texas · as Mack Cameron
2005
Vampire Bats · as Hank Poelker
2005
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) · as Carl Murphy
2005
2004
Ike: Countdown to D-Day · as Walter Bedell 'beetle' Smith
2004
The Girl Next Door · as Mr. Kidman
2003
The $cheme · as Rotunno
2003
Elephant · as Mr. Mcfarland
2003
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis · as George W. Bush
2003
NCIS (TV Series) · as Ritt Everett
2002
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course · as George W. Bush (uncredited)
2001
That's My Bush! (TV Series) · as George W. Bush
2000
Murder Seen · as Detective Stepnoski
2000
Held for Ransom · as Fred Donovan
2000
Gideon's Crossing (TV Series) · as Rev. Chuck
2000
2000
The Hiding Place · as Jack
2000
Black Sea 213 · as Dean
1999
Illusion Infinity · as Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan
1999
The Prince and the Surfer · as Johnny Canty
1999
1998
Diamondbacks · as Ed Williams
1998
That '70s Show (TV Series) · as Vice Principal Cole
1998
1998
No Rest for the Wicked · as Father Jeremy
1997
Absolute Force · as Lt. John Drake
1997
Mr. Atlas · as Phillip Frodden
1997
Tiger · as Larry
1996
1996
Uncle Sam · as Donald Crandall
1996
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (TV Series) · as Silver Parrish
1996
Death Game · as Jack
1996
1996
Lone Tiger · as Marcus
1996
Ringer · as Clay
1996
Fox Hunt · as Frank
1995
Hourglass · as Jurgen Brauner
1995
Yakuza Connection · as Ward Derderian
1995
Top Dog · as Nelson Houseman
1995
500 Nations (TV Series)
1995
Ripper Man · as Charles Walkan
1995
Personal Vendetta · as Zach Blackwell
1995
1994
1994
Horses and Champions · as Ben Choice
1994
Blue Sky · as Owens Ranch Cowboy
1993
Digger · as Sam Corlett
1991
Land of the Lost (1991) (TV Series) · as Tom Porter
1990
Texasville · as Sonny Crawford
1990
Hollywood Mavericks · as Sonny Crawford
1989
Istanbul · as Frank Collins
1989
Return from the River Kwai · as Seaman Miller
1989
A Case of Honor · as Sgt. Joseph 'hard' Case
1988
The Drifter · as Arthur
1988
1987
1986
The Fantasist · as Danny Sullivan
1986
Invaders from Mars · as George Gardner
1986
1985
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro · as Jack Ringtree
1985
1985
The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series) · as Driscoll
1985
The Sea Serpent · as Pedro Fontán
1984
What Waits Below · as Major Elbert Stevens
1984
1984
The Census Taker · as Pete
1983
The Hitchhiker (TV Series) · as Peter
1983
Hambone and Hillie · as Michael Radcliffe
1983
Tin Man · as Casey
1981
1981
East of Eden (TV Series) · as Adam Trask
1980
Escape · as Dwight Worker
1979
A Shining Season · as John Baker
1979
Hurricane · as Jack Sanford
1978
The Gift of Love · as Rudi Miller
1978
1977
Rollercoaster · as Young Man
1976
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers (TV Series) · as Miles Eastin
1976
A Small Town in Texas · as Poke Jackson
1976
The Story of David · as David
1975
Operation Daybreak · as Jan Kubis
1974
1974
The White Dawn · as Daggett
1973
The Paper Chase · as James T. Hart
1973
1971
The Last Picture Show · as Sonny Crawford
1971
Johnny Got His Gun · as Joe Bonham

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