Timothy Bottoms
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Timothy James Bottoms (born August 30, 1951) is an American actor and producer.

Biography

Personal life

Bottoms was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Betty (née Chapman) and James "Bud" Bottoms, who was a sculptor and art teacher.^[1] He is the brother of actors Joseph Bottoms, Sam Bottoms and Ben Bottoms.

In 1967, Bottoms toured Europe as part of the Santa Barbara Madrigal Society.

Career

Bottoms made his film debut in 1971 as a horrifically mutilated WWI soldier 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). He has appeared in other notable films such as The Paper Chase, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, and Elephant.

Bottoms has a unique notability for portraying U.S. President George W. Bush in three wildly varying productions. In 2000-2001, he played a parody of Bush in the Comedy Central sitcom That's My Bush! (from the makers of South Park); 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. His most recent role was as Mr. Kidman in The Girl Next Door (2004).

Timothy appears on a recurring role on FX new series Dirt as Gibson Horne, main character Lucy Spiller's underhanded boss.

He also co-produced the documentary Picture This - The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991) dealing with behind-the-scenes look on 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 didn't reciprocate his feelings.

Television

• Deadly Suspicion (2007)
• Lone Rider (2007)
• Dirt (2007)
• Deceit (2006)
• Grey's Anatomy (2005)
• Vampire Bats (2005)
• Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't (2005)
• Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2004)
• Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
• DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)
• That '70s Show (2002)
• Gideon's Crossing (2001)
• That's My Bush! (2001)
• Murder Seen (2000)
• Death Game (1996)
• 500 Nations (1995)
• Yakuza Connection (1995)
• Personal Vendetta (1995)
• Land of the Lost (1991)
• The Ray Bradbury Theater (1990)
• Here There Be Tygers (1990)
• Freddy's Nightmares (1989)
• The Twilight Zone (1988)
• Island Sons (1987)
• The Hitchhiker (1987)
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (1986)
• Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984)
• East of Eden (1981)
• A Shining Season (1979)
• Hurricane (1979)
• The Gift of Love (1978)
• Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976)
• The Story of David (1976)
• Winesburg, Ohio (1973)
• Look Homeward, Angel (1972)

Filmography

• Call of the Wild(2008)
• Chinaman's Chance (2008)
• Parasomnia (2007)
• Along the Way (2007)
• Shanghai Kiss (2007)
• Paradise, Texas (2005)
• The Girl Next Door (2004)
• Illusion Infinity (2004)
• The Entrepreneurs (2003)
• Elephant (2003)
• Paradise (2003/I)
• The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)
• Held for Ransom (2000)
• The Hiding Place (2000)
• The Haven (2000)
• The Prince and the Surfer (1999)
• Lone Tiger (1999)
• The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1999)
• Mixed Blessings (1998)
• Diamondbacks (1998)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1998/II)
• Black Sea 213 (1998)
• No Rest for the Wicked (1998)
• The Waterfront (1998)
• Uncle Sam (1997)
• Mr. Atlas (1997)
• Absolute Force (1997)
• Tiger (1997)
• Total Force (1997)
• American Hero (1997)
• Ringer (1996)
• Fox Hunt (1996)
• The Prince (1996/I)
• Ripper Man (1996)
• Top Dog (1995)
• Hourglass (1995)
• Desperate Obsession (1995)
• Blue Sky (1994)
• Ill Met by Moonlight (1994)
• Ava's Magical Adventure (1994)
• Horses and Champions (1994)
• Fox Hunt (1993)
• Digger (1993)
• Texasville (1990)
• Istanbul (1989)
• Return from the River Kwai (1989)
• The Drifter (1988)
• A Case of Honor (1988)
• Mio min Mio (1987)
• Invaders from Mars (1986)
• In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1986)
• The Fantasist (1986)
• The Census Taker (1984)
• Hambone and Hillie (1984)
• Serpiente de Mar (1984)
• What Waits Below (1984)
• Tin Man (1983)
• The High Country (1981)
• The Other Side of the Mountain Part II (1978)
• Rollercoaster (1977)
• A Small Town in Texas (1976)
• Operation Daybreak (1975)
• The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
• The White Dawn (1974)
• The Paper Chase (1973)
• Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

Producer

• Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991)

References

External links

• Timothy Bottoms at the Internet Movie Database
• Timothy Bottoms at Allmovie