Bo Hopkins (February 2, 1938 – May 28, 2022) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 100 film and television roles in a career of more than 40 years, including the 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 Hopkins' first roles in major films in the early 1970s he appeared in White Lightning (1973). He 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.
The roles that explain the career.
60 credits across 2 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Hillbilly Elegy | Papaw | Film |
| 2005 | Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah | Self | Film |
| 2003 | Shade | Lieutenant Scarne | Film |
| 2003 | Shade | Executive Producer | Film |
| 2002 | City of Ghosts | (Uncredited) | Film |
| 2002 | Cowboy Up | Ray Drupp | Film |
| 2001 | A Crack in the Floor | Sheriff Talmidge | Film |
| 2000 | Big Brother Trouble | Oddo | Film |
| 1999 | From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money | Sheriff Lawson | Film |
| 1999 | Getting to Know You | Officer Caminetto | Film |
| 1998 | The Newton Boys | K.P. Aldrich | Film |
| 1998 | Phantoms | Agent Hawthorne | Film |
| 1997 | Painted Hero | Brownie | Film |
| 1997 | Fever Lake | Sheriff Harris | Film |
| 1997 | U Turn | Ed | Film |
| 1996 | Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal | Rip Bartlett | Film |
| 1996 | Uncle Sam | Sgt. Twining | Film |
| 1996 | R.I.O.T.: The Movie | Harry McQue | Film |
| 1994 | Cheyenne Warrior | Jack Andrews | Film |
| 1994 | Radioland Murders | Billy's Father | Film |
| 1993 | The Ballad of Little Jo | Frank Badger | Film |
| 1992 | Inside Monkey Zetterland | Mike Zetterland | Film |
| 1992 | Center of the Web | Frank Allesendro | Film |
| 1992 | The Legend of Wolf Mountain | Steven Haynes | Film |
| 1991 | Blood Ties | Chief Hunter | Film |
| 1990 | The Final Alliance | Sheriff Whistler | Film |
| 1990 | Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell! | Sheriff Jon Farlock | Film |
| 1989 | The Bounty Hunter | Sheriff Bennett | Film |
| 1988 | Nightmare at Noon | Reilly | Film |
| 1986 | A Smoky Mountain Christmas | Sheriff John Jensen | Film |
| 1985 | What Comes Around | Tom Hawkins | Film |
| 1984 | Night Shadows | Sheriff Will Stewart | Film |
| 1983 | Sweet Sixteen | Sheriff Dan Burke | Film |
| 1980 | The Plutonium Incident | Art Reeves | Film |
| 1980 | Rodeo Girl | Will Garrett | Film |
| 1979 | More American Graffiti | Little Joe | Film |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Tex | Film |
| 1978 | The Fifth Floor | Carl | Film |
| 1977 | Tentacles | Will Gleason | Film |
| 1976 | Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway | Swan | Film |
| 1976 | A Small Town in Texas | Sheriff Duke | Film |
| 1975 | The Killer Elite | Jerome Miller | Film |
| 1975 | The Nickel Ride | Turner | Film |
| 1975 | The Kansas City Massacre | Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd | Film |
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | Earle Shoop | Film |
| 1975 | Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley | Prosecuting attorney | Film |
| 1975 | Posse | Wesley | Film |
| 1973 | White Lightning | Ray Boone | Film |
| 1973 | The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | Billy | Film |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | Joe Young | Film |
| 1972 | The Only Way Home | Orval | Film |
| 1972 | The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Dixie Brick | Film |
| 1972 | The Getaway | Frank Jackson | Film |
| 1971 | Macho Callahan | Yancy | Film |
| 1970 | Monte Walsh | Jumpin' Joe Joslin | Film |
| 1970 | The Moonshine War | Bud Blackwell | Film |
| 1969 | The Thousand Plane Raid | Capt. Douglass | Film |
| 1969 | The Wild Bunch | Clarence 'Crazy' Lee | Film |
| 1969 | The Bridge at Remagen | Cpl. Grebs | Film |
| 1968 | Dayton's Devils | Truck Driver | Film |
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