Timothy Bottoms
| Timothy Bottoms | |
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| Born |
Timothy James Bottoms August 30, 1951 Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, producer |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Spouse(s) |
Alicia Cory (1975–1982) (divorced) Marcia Morehart (1984–present) |
Timothy James Bottoms (born August 30, 1951) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his role as Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show where he and his fellow co-stars, Cybill Shepherd and Jeff Bridges, rose to fame, and his role as James Hart, the first-year law student who battles with Prof. Kingsfield in The Paper Chase.
Early life
Bottoms was born in Santa Barbara, California, the eldest son of Betty (née Chapman) and James "Bud" Bottoms, who is a sculptor and art teacher. He is the brother of actors Joseph Bottoms (born 1954), Sam Bottoms (1955–2008) and Ben Bottoms (born 1960). In 1967, Bottoms toured Europe as part of the Santa Barbara Madrigal Society.
Sam Bottoms died from brain cancer in 2008.[1] At one point, Sam was the only sibling close to Timothy.[2]
Career
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 (1973), Rollercoaster (1977) and Elephant (2003).
Bottoms has the unique distinction of portraying U.S. President George W. Bush in three widely varying productions. In 2000–2001, 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, 2001 attacks, Bottoms once again played Bush, this time in a serious fashion, in the telefilm DC 9/11, one of the first movies 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 (1991), 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".[3] He was also heavily featured in the Metallica video for "One", which featured footage of the film Johnny Got His Gun.
Filmography
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Producer
- Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991)
References
- ↑ Sam Bottoms at NNDB
- ↑ Gliatto, Tom. "Bottoms Up", People, Vol. 55, No. 21, 28 May 2001.
- ↑ http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/picture-perfect/page/0/4
External links
- Timothy Bottoms at the Internet Movie Database
- Timothy Bottoms at the Internet Broadway Database
- Timothy Bottoms at AllMovie