Timothy Bottoms

Biography

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.

Known For

Mr. McFarland

Elephant

Mr. Kidman

The Girl Next Door

Young Man

Rollercoaster

Captain Burroughs

The Land That Time Forgot

Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Daggett

The White Dawn

George Gardner

Invaders from Mars

Sonny Crawford

The Last Picture Show

Rotunno

The $cheme

Donald Crandall

Uncle Sam

Heep

Call of the Wild

Sheriff Carl Lovett

The Governor's Wife

Major Elbert Stevens

What Waits Below

Nelson Houseman

Top Dog

The King

Mio min Mio

James T. Hart

The Paper Chase

Jack Ringtree

In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro

Joe Bonham (video "One")

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

Martin Ford

Deceit

Adelaide's Father

Shanghai Kiss

Joe Bonham

Johnny Got His Gun

Walter Elbertson

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Clarence

Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Cameron Morris

Pound of Flesh

Slayton

Ava's Magical Adventure

Dr. Corso

Parasomnia

Clay

Ringer

Ed Williams

Diamondbacks

Danny Sullivan

The Fantasist

Sonny Crawford

Texasville

Jan Kubis

Operation: Daybreak

Mack Cameron

Paradise Texas

Jack Sanford

Hurricane

John Boothe

The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II

Seaman Miller

Return from the River Kwai

Hank Poelker

Vampire Bats

Jack

Death Game

Ward Derderian

Yakuza Connection

Lt. John Drake

Absolute Force

Pedro Fontán

Serpiente de mar

Jurgen Brauner

Hourglass

Rudi Miller

The Gift of Love

Arthur

The Drifter

Frank Collins

Istanbul

Fred Donovan

Held for Ransom

Morris Frank

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

George W. Bush

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

Frank

Fox Hunt

Poke Jackson

A Small Town in Texas

Father Thomas O'Neil

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

Eugene Gant

Look Homeward, Angel

Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case

A Case of Honor

Drake

Total Force

Pete

The Census Taker

Marcus

Lone Tiger

Larry

Tiger

Michael McCaffery

Along the Way

Vrooder

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

Detective Stepnoski

Murder Scene

Sam Corlett

Digger

Tim Faraday

Island Sons

Casey

Tin Man

Father Jeremy

No Rest for the Wicked

Dad Chandler

Holiday in Handcuffs

Self

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

Salvatore Solleto

Maximum Justice

Charles Walkan

Ripper Man

Jim

The High Country

David

The Story of David

George W. Bush (uncredited)

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

Self

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

Will

Bound By a Secret

The Prince

John

X-Treme Teens

Louie

The One-Nighter

Fouquet

The Man in the Iron Mask

Dean

Black Sea 213

Mike Swift

I Married Who?

John Baker

A Shining Season

Desperate Obsession

Barry Greenwood

Tar

Narrator

John Glenn: American Hero

Ben Choice

Horses and Champions

Thomas

Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance

Ellis

The Shed

Paul Maxwell

An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong

Dwight Worker

Escape

Self

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

Jack

The Hiding Place

Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan

Illusion Infinity

Zach Blackwell

Personal Vendetta

Rick

How Not to Propose

Larry

Welcome to the Men's Group

Johnny Canty

The Prince and the Surfer

Phillip Frodden

Mr. Atlas

Michael Radcliffe

Hambone and Hillie

Himself

Pocket Angel

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

97

Gender

Male

Birthday

1951-08-30

Place of Birth

Santa Barbara, California, USA

Also Known As

Timothy James Bottoms