Timothy Bottoms
Born 1951
Known for The Last Picture Show, The Girl Next Door, Johnny Got His Gun.
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Bottoms has portrayed U.S. President George W. Bush in three widely varying productions. In 2000 and 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 attacks, Bottoms once again played Bush, this time in a serious fashion, in the TV film DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, one of the first films 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, 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". He was also heavily featured in the Metallica video for "One", which featured footage of the film Johnny Got His Gun.
Movie Credits
Tar (2020)
The One-Nighter (2012)
Paradise Texas (2005)
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)
Absolute Force (1997)
Desperate Obsession (1995)
A Case of Honor (1988)
A Small Town in Texas (1976)
The Story of David (1976)
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
The Paper Chase (1973)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Vampire Bats (2005)
The Hiding Place (2000)
Ringer (1996)
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1985)
What Waits Below (1984)
The Gift of Love (1978)
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978)
The White Dawn (1974)
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
Holiday in Handcuffs (2006)
Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991)
Mio in the Land of Faraway (1987)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
The Fantasist (1986)
Rollercoaster (1977)
Pound of Flesh (2010)
Call of the Wild (2009)
The $cheme (2003)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (1986)
The Census Taker (1984)
The Shed (2019)
The Governor's Wife (2008)
Along the Way (2007)
Return from the River Kwai (1989)
The Secret Life of the Hospital (2018)
Welcome to the Men's Group (2016)
Parasomnia (2008)
Texasville (1990)
Hurricane (1979)
The Girl Next Door (2004)
Held for Ransom (2000)
Top Dog (1995)
Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't (2005)
How Not to Propose (2015)
Uncle Sam (1996)
Deceit (2006)
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 (2006)
Shanghai Kiss (2007)
Elephant (2003)
