Timothy Bottoms
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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.
Known For
The roles that explain the career.
Filmography
69 credits across 3 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | The Shed | Ellis | Film |
| 2012 | I Married Who? | Mike Swift | Film |
| 2011 | Pound of Flesh | Cameron Morris | Film |
| 2009 | Call of the Wild | Heep | Film |
| 2009 | Bound By a Secret | Will | Film |
| 2009 | The Land That Time Forgot | Captain Burroughs | Film |
| 2009 | An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong | Paul Maxwell | Film |
| 2008 | Parasomnia | Dr. Corso | Film |
| 2008 | Lone Rider | Gus | Film |
| 2008 | The Governor's Wife | Sheriff Carl Lovett | Film |
| 2007 | Shanghai Kiss | Adelaide's Father | Film |
| 2007 | Holiday in Handcuffs | Dad Chandler | Film |
| 2006 | Deceit | Martin Ford | Film |
| 2006 | Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 | Joe Bonham (video "One") | Film |
| 2005 | Paradise Texas | Mack Cameron | Film |
| 2005 | Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't | Clarence | Film |
| 2005 | Vampire Bats | Hank Poelker | Film |
| 2004 | Ike: Countdown to D-Day | Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith | Film |
| 2004 | The Girl Next Door | Mr. Kidman | Film |
| 2003 | Elephant | Mr. McFarland | Film |
| 2003 | DC 9/11: Time of Crisis | George W. Bush | Film |
| 2002 | The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course | George W. Bush (uncredited) | Film |
| 2001 | That's My Bush! | George W. Bush | TV |
| 2000 | Held for Ransom | Fred Donovan | Film |
| 1999 | The Prince and the Surfer | Johnny Canty | Film |
| 1999 | The Last Picture Show: A Look Back | Self | Film |
| 1999 | X-Treme Teens | John | Film |
| 1998 | Ava's Magical Adventure | Slayton | Film |
| 1998 | Diamondbacks | Ed Williams | Film |
| 1998 | Tiger | Larry | Film |
| 1998 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Fouquet | Film |
| 1997 | Hourglass | Jurgen Brauner | Film |
| 1997 | Mr. Atlas | Phillip Frodden | Film |
| 1996 | Ringer | Clay | Film |
| 1996 | Lone Tiger | Marcus | Film |
| 1996 | Death Game | Jack | Film |
| 1996 | Uncle Sam | Donald Crandall | Film |
| 1995 | Top Dog | Nelson Houseman | Film |
| 1995 | 500 Nations | TV | |
| 1991 | Land of the Lost | Tom Porter | TV |
| 1991 | Picture This | Self | Film |
| 1991 | Picture This | Producer | Film |
| 1990 | Texasville | Sonny Crawford | Film |
| 1989 | Return from the River Kwai | Seaman Miller | Film |
| 1989 | Istanbul | Frank Collins | Film |
| 1988 | A Case of Honor | Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case | Film |
| 1988 | The Drifter | Arthur | Film |
| 1987 | Mio in the Land of Faraway | The King | Film |
| 1986 | The Fantasist | Danny Sullivan | Film |
| 1986 | In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro | Jack Ringtree | Film |
| 1986 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun | Father Thomas O'Neil | Film |
| 1986 | Invaders from Mars | George Gardner | Film |
| 1985 | The Sea Serpent | Pedro Fontán | Film |
| 1984 | What Waits Below | Major Elbert Stevens | Film |
| 1984 | The Census Taker | Pete | Film |
| 1984 | Love Leads the Way: A True Story | Morris Frank | Film |
| 1983 | Tin Man | Casey | Film |
| 1983 | Hambone and Hillie | Michael Radcliffe | Film |
| 1979 | Hurricane | Jack Sanford | Film |
| 1978 | The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II | John Boothe | Film |
| 1978 | The Gift of Love | Rudi Miller | Film |
| 1977 | Rollercoaster | Young Man | Film |
| 1976 | A Small Town in Texas | Poke Jackson | Film |
| 1975 | Operation: Daybreak | Jan Kubis | Film |
| 1974 | The White Dawn | Daggett | Film |
| 1973 | Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing | Walter Elbertson | Film |
| 1973 | The Paper Chase | James T. Hart | Film |
| 1971 | Johnny Got His Gun | Joe Bonham | Film |
| 1971 | The Last Picture Show | Sonny Crawford | Film |
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