Timothy Bottoms

Timothy Bottoms

Born 1951-08-30 (age 74) Santa Barbara, California, USA
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Biography

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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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Known For

The Girl Next Door
The Girl Next Door

2004

as Mr. Kidman

Elephant
Elephant

2003

as Mr. McFarland

Rollercoaster
Rollercoaster

1977

as Young Man

The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show

1971

as Sonny Crawford

Total Force
Total Force

1996

as Drake

Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun

1971

as Joe Bonham

Invaders from Mars
Invaders from Mars

1986

as George Gardner

Ripper Man
Ripper Man

1995

as Charles Walkan

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

as George Gardner (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mio in the Land of Faraway
Parasomnia
Parasomnia

2008

as Dr. Corso

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Tin Man

1983

as Casey

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Istanbul

1989

as Frank Collins

The Shed
The Shed

2019

as Ellis

Call of the Wild
Call of the Wild

2009

as Heep

The Land That Time Forgot
The Land That Time Forgot

2009

as Captain Burroughs

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Deceit
Deceit

2006

as Martin Ford

Shanghai Kiss
Shanghai Kiss

2007

as Adelaide's Father

Maximum Justice
Maximum Justice

1998

as Salvatore Solleto