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Bo Hopkins

Bo Hopkins

Birthday: 1938-02-02 | Place of Birth: Greenville, South Carolina, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bo Hopkins was an American actor.   Hopkins appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the major studio films The Wild Bunch (1969), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Getaway (1972), American Graffiti (1973), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), The Killer Elite (1975), Posse (1975), A Small Town in Texas (1976), Midnight Express (1978), and More American Graffiti (1979). After Bo Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). Bo Hopkins played Roy Boone. Jerry Reed and Bo Hopkins played brothers Joe Hawkins and Tom Hawkins in the 1985 film What Comes Around. Hopkins starred or co-starred in a number of made-for-television movies of the mid-1970s, including Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley (1975), The Runaway Barge (1975), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), The Invasion of Johnson County (1976), Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976), Woman on the Run (1977), Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978), Crisis in Sun Valley (1978) and The Busters (1978). When Gretchen Corbett left the television series The Rockford Files in 1978, Hopkins replaced her character as Rockford's attorney John Cooper, ultimately appearing in 3 episodes. In 1981, Hopkins appeared in the first season of the prime time drama Dynasty as Matthew Blaisdel. His many other appearances on television included in miniseries Aspen (1977) and Beggarman, Thief (1979), and in episodes of Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Virginian, Nichols, The Rat Patrol, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Charlie's Angels, Fantasy Island, The A-Team, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Fall Guy, Crazy Like a Fox, Murder, She Wrote and Doc Elliot. Hopkins has a role in the video game Nuclear Strike. He plays Colonel LeMonde, a mercenary who steals a nuclear weapon. The 'Strike' team tracks him through Southeast Asia.Description above from the Wikipedia article Bo Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2020
Hillbilly Elegy

as    Papaw

2002
Cowboy Up

as    Ray Drupp

2001
A Crack in the Floor

as    Sheriff Talmidge

2000
Big Brother Trouble

as    Oddo

1999
Time Served

as    Mr. D

1999
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

as    Sheriff Lawson

1997
Painted Hero

as    Brownie

1997
Fever Lake

as    Sheriff Harris

1996
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

as    Rip Bartlett

1996
Uncle Sam

as    Sgt. Twining

1995
OP Center

as    Dan McCaskey

1993
The Ballad of Little Jo

as    Frank Badger

1992
Center of the Web

as    Frank Allesendro

1990
Big Bad John

as    Lester

1990
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!

as    Sheriff Jon Farlock

1990
The Final Alliance

as    Sheriff Whistler

1989
The Bounty Hunter

as    Sheriff Bennett

1988
Nightmare at Noon

as    Reilly

1986
A Smoky Mountain Christmas

as    Sheriff John Jensen

1983
Sweet Sixteen

as    Sheriff Dan Burke

1980
The Plutonium Incident

as    Art Reeves

1980
Rodeo Girl

as    Will Garrett

1979
More American Graffiti

as    Little Joe

1978
The Fifth Floor

as    Carl

1978
Midnight Express

as    Tex

1977
Tentacles

as    Will Gleason

1976
A Small Town in Texas

as    Sheriff Duke

1975
The Day of the Locust

as    Earle Shoop

1975
The Killer Elite

as    Jerome Miller