
Bo Hopkins
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1938-02-02
Day of Death
2022-05-28 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Bo Hopkins
Biography
Bo Hopkins (February 2, 1938 – May 28, 2022) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the The Wild Bunch (1969), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Getaway (1972), American Graffiti (1973), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Killer Elite (1975), Posse (1975), A Small Town in Texas (1976), Midnight Express (1978), and More American Graffiti (1979).
After Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). He starred or co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies of the mid-1970s, including Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975), The Runaway Barge (1975), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), The Invasion of Johnson County (1976), Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), Woman on the Run (1977), Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978), Crisis in Sun Valley (1978) and The Busters (1978).
When Gretchen Corbett left the television series The Rockford Files in 1978, Hopkins replaced her character as Rockford's attorney John Cooper, ultimately appearing in 3 episodes. In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel. His many other appearances on television included in miniseries Aspen (1977) and Beggarman, Thief (1979), and in episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox, Murder, She Wrote and Doc Elliot. Hopkins has a role in the video game Nuclear Strike. He plays Colonel LeMonde, a mercenary who steals a nuclear weapon. The 'Strike' team tracks him through Southeast Asia.Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acting
(2020)
Hillbilly Elegy
as Papaw
(2013)
A Little Christmas Business
as Coach Morris
(2005)
(2005)
Vice
as Jamie Barnett
(2003)
Shade
as Lieutenant Scarne
(2003)
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
as Coach Stangel
(2002)
City of Ghosts
as (Uncredited)
(2002)
Cowboy Up
as Ray Drupp
(2001)
A Crack in the Floor
as Sheriff Talmidge
(2001)
Choosing Matthias
as Doc
(2000)
Big Brother Trouble
as Oddo
(2000)
The Thundering 8th
as Col. Thompson
(1999)
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
as Sheriff Lawson
(1999)
Getting to Know You
as Officer Caminetto
(1999)
Time Served
as Mr. D
(1998)
Phantoms
as Agent Hawthorne
(1998)
The Newton Boys
as K.P. Aldrich
(1998)
(1997)
U Turn
as Ed
(1997)
Painted Hero
as Brownie
(1997)
Fever Lake
as Sheriff Harris
(1996)
Uncle Sam
as Sgt. Twining
(1996)
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
as Rip Bartlett
(1996)
R.I.O.T.: The Movie
as Harry McQue
(1995)
The Feminine Touch
as Capt. Hogan
(1995)
OP Center
as Dan McCaskey
(1995)
Riders in the Storm
as Billy Van Owen
(1994)
Radioland Murders
as Billy's Father
(1994)
Texas Payback
as Sheriff Bishop
(1994)
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Rattlesnake Reynolds
(1994)
Cheyenne Warrior
as Jack Andrews
(1993)
The Ballad of Little Jo
as Frank Badger
(1992)
Center of the Web
as Frank Allesendro
(1992)
Inside Monkey Zetterland
as Mike Zetterland
(1992)
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
as Steven Haynes
(1991)
Blood Ties
as Chief Hunter
(1990)
The Final Alliance
as Sheriff Whistler
(1990)
Big Bad John
as Lester
(1990)
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!
as Sheriff Jon Farlock
(1989)
The Bounty Hunter
as Sheriff Bennett
(1989)
Trapper County War
as Sheriff Sam Frost
(1989)
President's Target
as Marty Rogers
(1988)
Nightmare at Noon
as Reilly
(1986)
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
as Sheriff John Jensen
(1986)
(1985)
What Comes Around
as Tom Hawkins
(1985)
(1984)
Night Shadows
as Sheriff Will Stewart
(1984)
(1983)
Sweet Sixteen
as Sheriff Dan Burke
(1983)
Ghost Dancing
as Dave Groves
(1980)
Casino
as Stoney
(1980)
The Plutonium Incident
as Art Reeves
(1980)
Rodeo Girl
as Will Garrett
(1979)
More American Graffiti
as Little Joe
(1979)
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
as Billy Doolin
(1979)
Beggarman, Thief
as Bunny Dwyer
(1978)
Midnight Express
as Tex
(1978)
The Fifth Floor
as Carl
(1978)
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
as Eddie Lee Haskell
(1978)
Crisis in Sun Valley
as Buchanan
(1977)
Tentacles
as Will Gleason
(1976)
A Small Town in Texas
as Sheriff Duke
(1976)
The Invasion of Johnson County
as George Dunning
(1976)
(1975)
Posse
as Wesley
(1975)
The Day of the Locust
as Earle Shoop
(1975)
The Killer Elite
as Jerome Miller
(1975)
The Kansas City Massacre
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
(1975)
The Nickel Ride
as Turner
(1975)
The Runaway Barge
as Earl Owens
(1975)
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
as Prosecuting attorney
(1973)
American Graffiti
as Joe Young
(1973)
White Lightning
as Ray Boone
(1973)
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
as Billy
(1972)
The Getaway
as Frank Jackson
(1972)
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
as Dixie Brick
(1972)
The Only Way Home
as Orval
(1971)
Macho Callahan
as Yancy
(1971)
Cat Ballou
as Clay
(1970)
Monte Walsh
as Jumpin' Joe Joslin
(1970)
The Moonshine War
as Bud Blackwell
(1969)
The Wild Bunch
as Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
(1969)
The Bridge at Remagen
as Cpl. Grebs
(1969)
The Thousand Plane Raid
as Capt. Douglass
(1968)
Dayton's Devils
as Truck Driver
Crew
(2003)
Shade
Executive Producer