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
Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick
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
Gus
Lone Rider
George Gardner (archive footage) (uncredited)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
99
Gender
Male
Birthday
1951-08-30
Place of Birth
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Also Known As
Timothy James Bottoms