Timothy Bottoms

Highest Rated: 100% The Last Picture Show (1971)

Lowest Rated: 0% Top Dog (1994)

Birthday: Aug 30, 1951

Birthplace: Not Available

The oldest of three sons of a high school art teacher, Timothy Bottoms was 17 when he toured Europe as a member of the Santa Monica Madrigal Society. Enjoying the "rush" of appearing before live audiences, Bottoms pursued a theatrical career. While playing the lead in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet, he was selected by writer/director Dalton Trumbo to play the blind, deaf, armless, and legless protagonist in the 1971 film version of Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun. That same year, Bottoms was tapped by Peter Bogdanovich to star as Texas teenager Sonny Crawford in the award-winning The Last Picture Show (1971), which featured Tim's younger brother Samuel. Bottoms followed these triumphs by creating the role of harried first-year law student Hart in the 1973 sleeper The Paper Chase. Thereafter, his film roles seemed haphazardly selected. On TV, Bottoms was given an opportunity to age nearly 30 years as Adam Trask in the 1981 miniseries version of East of Eden; he also co-starred with brothers Joseph and Sam in the feature-length TV pilot Favorite Son (1987). Again appearing opposite younger sibling Joseph, Tim made his Broadway bow in The 5th of July (1951). Bottoms surprised no one when he balked at the opportunity of re-creating his Sonny Crawford characterization in Texasville, the 1991 sequel to Last Picture Show. Eventually he not only agreed to co-star in Texasville, but also served as executive producer of a documentary on the making of that film, Picture This (1990).

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Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	How Not to Propose	Rick	—	2015
No Score Yet	1 Nighter (The One Nighter)	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	The Land That Time Forgot	Captain Burroughs	—	2009
No Score Yet	Call of the Wild 3D	Heep	—	2009
No Score Yet	Bound By A Secret (The Glass Seagull)	Will	—	2009
No Score Yet	An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Lone Rider	Gus	—	2008
No Score Yet	Deadly Suspicion	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Parasomnia	Dr. Corso	—	2008
No Score Yet	Chinaman's Chance (I Am Somebody)	Thomas	—	2008
No Score Yet	Holiday in Handcuffs	Dad Chandler	—	2007
No Score Yet	Deceit	Martin Ford	—	2007
No Score Yet	Shanghai Kiss	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Paradise Texas	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Vampire Bats	Hank Poelker	—	2005
No Score Yet	Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't	Clarence	—	2005
No Score Yet	Paradise, Texas	Mack Cameron	—	2005
No Score Yet	Ike: Countdown to D-Day	Gen. Walter Bedell `Beetle' Smith	—	2004
56%	The Girl Next Door	Mr. Kidman	$14.6M	2004
No Score Yet	Illusion Infinity	Francis Hiller/Alan/Henry/Douglas	—	2004
73%	Elephant	Mr. McFarland	$1.2M	2003
No Score Yet	The Hiding Place	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Rehenes Equivocados	Fred Donavan	—	2000
No Score Yet	Along the Way	Trevor's Dad	—	2000
No Score Yet	Lone Tiger	Marcus	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Prince and the Surfer	Johnny Canty	—	1999
No Score Yet	The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (X-Ray Boy) (X-Treme Teens)	John Carver	—	1999
No Score Yet	Spoiler	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Diamondbacks	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Man in the Iron Mask	Fouquet	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Waterfront	Actor	—	1998
56%	Uncle Sam	Mr. Crandall	—	1997
No Score Yet	Mr. Atlas	Actor	—	1997
No Score Yet	Personal Vendetta	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	Mortal Challenge	Actor	—	1996
No Score Yet	The Prince	John	—	1996
No Score Yet	Hourglass	Jurgen Brauner	—	1995
No Score Yet	Digger	Sam Corlett	—	1994
No Score Yet	Ava's Magical Adventure	Slayton	—	1994
0%	Top Dog	Nelson Houseman	—	1994
97%	King of the Hill	Actor	—	1993
No Score Yet	Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich	Actor	—	1991
No Score Yet	A Case of Honor	Actor	—	1991
55%	Texasville	Sonny	—	1991
No Score Yet	Istanbul	Frank Collins	—	1990
No Score Yet	Return From The River Kwai	Actor	—	1989
No Score Yet	The Drifter	Arthur	—	1988
No Score Yet	Case of Honor	Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case	—	1988
No Score Yet	Mio in the Land of Faraway	The King	—	1987
36%	Invaders from Mars	George Gardner	—	1986
No Score Yet	In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro	Jack Ringtree	—	1986
No Score Yet	Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun	Father Thomas O'Neil	—	1986
No Score Yet	Husbands, Wives, Money & Murder	Actor	—	1986
No Score Yet	The Fantasist	Danny Sullivan	—	1986
No Score Yet	What Waits Below	Maj. Elbert Stevens	—	1985
No Score Yet	Serpiente de mar (Hydra-Monster of the Deep) Sea Serpent	Capt. Pedro Barrios	—	1985
No Score Yet	Hambone and Hillie	Michael Radcliffe	—	1984
No Score Yet	Love Leads the Way	Morris Frank	—	1984
No Score Yet	Tin Man	Casey	—	1983
No Score Yet	High Country	Jim	—	1981
38%	Hurricane	Jack Sanford	—	1979
No Score Yet	The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2	John Boothe	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Gift of Love	Rudy	—	1978
50%	Rollercoaster	Young Man	—	1977
No Score Yet	A Small Town in Texas	Poke Jackson	—	1976
No Score Yet	The Story of David	Actor	—	1976
No Score Yet	Operation: Daybreak	Jan Kubis	—	1976
No Score Yet	The White Dawn	Daggett	—	1974
85%	The Paper Chase	James T. Hart	—	1973
No Score Yet	Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing	Walter Elbertson	—	1973
100%	The Last Picture Show	Sonny Crawford	—	1971
70%	Johnny Got His Gun	Joe Bonham	—	1971

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
52%	Private Practice 2007-2013	Irwin	2010
No Score Yet	Dirt 2007-2008	Gibson Horne	2007
72%	Grey's Anatomy 2005	Mr. Murphy	2005
No Score Yet	NCIS 2003	Ritt Everett	2004
No Score Yet	The Twilight Zone 1985-1989	Actor	1988

Quotes from Timothy Bottoms' Characters

Hart:

It was the genius who told me about Kingsfield. First guy to tell me all about Kingsfield. He read an article about him in Life or Time. Something about a book he wrote. It was called Contracts in Our Daily Lives.

Hart:

Maybe I better start studying then.

Hart:	We're gonna have to get up so early to keep up with him(Kingsfield).
Hart:	We're gonna have to get up so early to keep up with him.

Sonny Crawford:	"He was sweepin you sons-a-bitches! He was sweepin!"
Sonny Crawford:	He was sweepin you sons-a-bitches! He was sweepin!

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