Timothy Bottoms
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.
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Tar
as Barry Greenwood
The Shed
as Ellis
Welcome to the Men's Group
as Larry
How Not to Propose
as Rick
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
as George Gardner (archive footage) (uncredited)
I Married Who?
as Mike Swift
The One-Nighter
as Louie
Pound of Flesh
as Cameron Morris
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
as Self
The Land That Time Forgot
as Captain Burroughs
Call of the Wild
as Heep
Bound By a Secret
as Will
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
as Paul Maxwell
Parasomnia
as Dr. Corso
The Governor's Wife
as Sheriff Carl Lovett
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
as Thomas
Lone Rider
as Gus
Holiday in Handcuffs
as Dad Chandler
Private Practice
as Irwin
Shanghai Kiss
as Adelaide's Father
Dirt
as Gibson Horne
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
as Joe Bonham (video "One")
Deceit
as Martin Ford
Vampire Bats
as Hank Poelker
Pocket Angel
as Himself
Grey's Anatomy
as Carl Murphy
Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
as Clarence
Paradise Texas
as Mack Cameron
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
as Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith
Illusion Infinity
as Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan
The $cheme
as Rotunno
NCIS
as Ritt Everett
Elephant
as Mr. McFarland
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
as George W. Bush
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
as George W. Bush (uncredited)
That's My Bush!
as George W. Bush
Murder Scene
as Detective Stepnoski
Held for Ransom
as Fred Donovan
The Hiding Place
as Jack
The Prince and the Surfer
as Johnny Canty
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
as Self
X-Treme Teens
as John
Diamondbacks
as Ed Williams
Tiger
as Larry
John Glenn: American Hero
as Narrator
That '70s Show
as Vice Principal Cole
The Man in the Iron Mask
as Fouquet
Ava's Magical Adventure
as Slayton
No Rest for the Wicked
as Father Jeremy
Maximum Justice
as Salvatore Solleto
Black Sea 213
as Dean
The View
as Self
Absolute Force
as Lt. John Drake
Hourglass
as Jurgen Brauner
Mr. Atlas
as Phillip Frodden
Uncle Sam
as Donald Crandall
Death Game
as Jack
Total Force
as Drake
Lone Tiger
as Marcus
Horses and Champions
as Ben Choice
Ringer
as Clay
Fox Hunt
as Frank
Yakuza Connection
as Ward Derderian
Top Dog
as Nelson Houseman
500 Nations
as Unknown
Ripper Man
as Charles Walkan
Desperate Obsession
as Unknown
Personal Vendetta
as Zach Blackwell
Digger
as Sam Corlett
Land of the Lost
as Tom Porter
Picture This
as Self
Texasville
as Sonny Crawford
Return from the River Kwai
as Seaman Miller
Freddy's Nightmares
as Mr. Franklin
The Drifter
as Arthur
A Case of Honor
as Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case
Mio in the Land of Faraway
as The King
Island Sons
as Tim Faraday
The Fantasist
as Danny Sullivan
Invaders from Mars
as George Gardner
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
as Father Thomas O'Neil
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
as Jack Ringtree
The Twilight Zone
as Unknown
The Sea Serpent
as Pedro Fontán
What Waits Below
as Major Elbert Stevens
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
as Morris Frank
The Census Taker
as Pete
The Hitchhiker
as Peter
Hambone and Hillie
as Michael Radcliffe
The High Country
as Jim
East of Eden
as Adam Trask
Escape
as Dwight Worker
A Shining Season
as John Baker
Hurricane
as Jack Sanford
The Gift of Love
as Rudi Miller
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II
as John Boothe
Rollercoaster
as Young Man
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
as Miles Eastin
A Small Town in Texas
as Poke Jackson
The Story of David
as David
The Story of David
as David
Operation: Daybreak
as Jan Kubis
Dinah!
as Self - Guest
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
as Vrooder
The White Dawn
as Daggett
The Paper Chase
as James T. Hart
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
as Walter Elbertson
Look Homeward, Angel
as Eugene Gant
The Last Picture Show
as Sonny Crawford
Johnny Got His Gun
as Joe Bonham