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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 where he and his fellow co-stars, Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges, rose to fame; as James Hart, the first-year law student who battles with Prof. Kingsfield, in the film adaptation The Paper Chase; and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom That's My Bush! and in the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and the docudrama DC 9/11: Time of Crisis.
Birth Name
Timothy James Bottoms
Born
Thursday, 30 August 1951
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Tar | Barry Greenwood | 2020 |
The Shed | Ellis | 2019 |
The Movies | Sonny Crawford / Hart | 2019 |
Welcome to the Men's Group | Larry | 2016 |
How Not to Propose | Rick | 2015 |
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | George Gardner | 2014 |
Sweet Surrender | Jerry's Dad | 2014 |
The Bridge | Arliss Froome | 2013 |
1 Nighter | Louie | 2012 |
I Married Who? | Mike Swift | 2012 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Tar | Barry Greenwood | 2020 |
The Shed | Ellis | 2019 |
The Movies | Sonny Crawford / Hart | 2019 |
Welcome to the Men's Group | Larry | 2016 |
How Not to Propose | Rick | 2015 |
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films | George Gardner | 2014 |
Sweet Surrender | Jerry's Dad | 2014 |
The Bridge | Arliss Froome | 2013 |
1 Nighter | Louie | 2012 |
I Married Who? | Mike Swift | 2012 |
What's Up Orange County | Self - Guest | 2011 |
Pound of Flesh | Cameron Morris | 2010 |
The Land That Time Forgot | Captain Burroughs | 2009 |
Call of the Wild | Heep | 2009 |
Bound by a Secret | Will Hutchinson / Will | 2009 |
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong | Paul Maxwell | 2009 |
Parasomnia | Dr. Emil Corso / Dr. Corso | 2008 |
Illusion Infinity | Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan | 2008 |
Lone Rider | Gus | 2008 |
The Governor's Wife | Sheriff Carl Lovett | 2008 |
Along the Way | Michael McCaffery | 2007 |
Private Practice | Irwin | 2007 |
Shanghai Kiss | Adelaide's Father | 2007 |
Dirt | Gibson Horne | 2007 |
Deceit | Martin Ford | 2006 |
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Sonny Crawford | 2006 |
To Catch a Crimes | Dad Chandler | 2006 |
Vampire Bats | Hank Poelker | 2005 |
The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes | John / John Carver | 2005 |
Pocket Angel | Himself | 2005 |
Grey's Anatomy | Carl Murphy | 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 / Walter Bedell "Beetle" Smith | 2004 |
The Girl Next Door | Mr. Kidman | 2004 |
The $cheme | Rotunno | 2003 |
Elephant | Mr. McFarland | 2003 |
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis | President George W. Bush / George W. Bush | 2003 |
NCIS | Ritt Everett | 2003 |
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course | President George Walker Bush | 2002 |
That's My Bush! | George W. Bush | 2001 |
Murder Seen | Detective Stepnoski | 2000 |
Held for Ransom | Fred Donovan | 2000 |
Gideon's Crossing | Rev. Chuck | 2000 |
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years | Hart | 2000 |
The Hiding Place | Jack | 2000 |
The Prince and the Surfer | Johnny Canty | 1999 |
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back | Himself | 1999 |
Diamondbacks | Ed Williams | 1998 |
That '70s Show | Vice Principal Cole | 1998 |
Ava's Magical Adventure | Slayton | 1998 |
Black Sea 213 | Dean | 1998 |
Absolute Force | Lt. John Drake | 1997 |
Tiger | Larry | 1997 |
Mr. Atlas | Phillip Frodden | 1997 |
Uncle Sam | Donald Crandall | 1996 |
The Great War: 1914-1918 | Silver Parrish | 1996 |
Death Game | Jack | 1996 |
Total Force | Drake | 1996 |
Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right | Self | 1996 |
Lone Tiger | Marcus | 1996 |
Horses and Champions | Ben Choice | 1996 |
Ringer | Clay | 1996 |
Fox Hunt | Frank | 1996 |
Hourglass | Jurgen Brauner | 1995 |
Top Dog | Nelson Houseman | 1995 |
500 Nations | (voice) (as Tim Bottoms) | 1995 |
Ripper Man | Charles Walkan | 1995 |
Personal Vendetta | Zach Blackwell | 1995 |
Yakuza Connection | Ward Derderian | 1995 |
Desperate Obsession | 1995 | |
Blue Sky | Owens Ranch Cowboy | 1994 |
Digger | Sam Corlett | 1993 |
Land of the Lost | Tom Porter | 1991 |
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas | Himself / Self | 1991 |
Texasville | Sonny Crawford | 1990 |
Hollywood Mavericks | Sonny Crawford | 1990 |
Istanbul | Frank Collins / Frank | 1989 |
Return from the River Kwai | Seaman Miller | 1989 |
Metallica: One | Joe Bonham | 1989 |
Drifter, The (1988) | Arthur | 1988 |
Freddy's Nightmares | Mr. Franklin | 1988 |
The Drifter | Arthur | 1988 |
A Case of Honor | Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case | 1988 |
Mio in the Land of Faraway | The King | 1987 |
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun | Father Thomas O'Neil | 1986 |
Invaders from Mars | George Gardner | 1986 |
The Fantasist | Danny Sullivan | 1986 |
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro | Jack Ringtree | 1985 |
The Twilight Zone | Miley Judson | 1985 |
The Ray Bradbury Theater | Driscoll | 1985 |
The Sea Serpent | Pedro Fontán | 1985 |
What Waits Below | Maj. Elbert Stevens / Major Elbert Stevens | 1984 |
Love Leads the Way: A True Story | Morris Frank | 1984 |
The Census Taker | Pete | 1984 |
The Hitchhiker | Peter | 1983 |
Hambone and Hillie | Michael Radcliffe | 1983 |
Tin Man | Casey | 1983 |
East of Eden | Adam Trask | 1981 |
Escape | Dwight Worker | 1980 |
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 | 1976 |
A Small Town in Texas | Poke Jackson | 1976 |
The Story of David | David | 1976 |
Operation Daybreak | Jan Kubis | 1975 |
Dinah! | Self | 1974 |
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder | Vrooder / Julius Vrooder | 1974 |
The White Dawn | Daggett | 1974 |
Bicentennial Minutes | Self - Narrator | 1974 |
The Paper Chase | James T. Hart | 1973 |
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing | Walter Elbertson | 1973 |
The 44th Annual Academy Awards | Self - Presenter | 1972 |
Look Homeward, Angel | Eugene Gant | 1972 |
The Last Picture Show | Sonny Crawford | 1971 |
Johnny Got His Gun | Joe Bonham | 1971 |
The David Frost Show | Self | 1969 |
The Dick Cavett Show | Sonny Crawford | 1968 |
Producer Filmography
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1972 | Golden Globe | Most Promising Newcomer - Male | Nominated |