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Bo Hopkins

Bo Hopkins

Actor · 1938–2022 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA

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Biography

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.

Acted in 113

2010s

  1. 2013

    A Little Christmas Business

    Coach Morris

2000s

  1. 2003

    Pitcher and the Pin-Up

    Coach Stangel

  2. 2002
  3. Cowboy Up

    Ray Drupp

  4. 2001
  5. 2000

    Vice

    Jamie Barnett

  6. Big Brother Trouble

    Oddo

  7. The Thundering 8th

    Col. Thompson

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1998
  3. 1997
  4. Painted Hero

    Brownie

  5. 1996
  6. Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

    Rip Bartlett

  7. R.I.O.T.: The Movie

    Harry McQue

  8. 1995

    Riders in the Storm

    Billy Van Owen

  9. OP Center

    Dan McCaskey

  10. OP Center

    Dan McCaskey · 2 episodes

  11. 1994

    Texas Payback

    Sheriff Bishop

  12. Radioland Murders

    Billy's Father

  13. Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

    Rattlesnake Reynolds

  14. 1993

    The Ballad of Little Jo

    Frank Badger

  15. 1992

    Inside Monkey Zetterland

    Mike Zetterland

  16. The Legend of Wolf Mountain

    Steven Haynes

  17. Center of the Web

    Frank Allesendro

  18. 1991

    Blood Ties

    Chief Hunter

  19. 1990

    Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!

    Sheriff Jon Farlock

  20. The Final Alliance

    Sheriff Whistler

  21. Big Bad John

    Lester

1980s

  1. 1989

    The Bounty Hunter

    Sheriff Bennett

  2. President's Target

    Marty Rogers

  3. Trapper County War

    Sheriff Sam Frost

  4. 1988

    Nightmare at Noon

    Reilly

  5. 1986

    A Smoky Mountain Christmas

    Sheriff John Jensen

  6. Houston: The Legend of Texas

    Col. Sidney Sherman

  7. Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills

    Jud

  8. 1985

    What Comes Around

    Tom Hawkins

  9. Dark Horse

    Movie

  10. 1984
  11. 1983
  12. 1982
  13. 1981
  14. 1980

    Rodeo Girl

    Will Garrett

  15. Casino

    Stoney

  16. The Plutonium Incident

    Art Reeves

1970s

  1. 1979

    Beggarman, Thief

    Bunny Dwyer · 2 episodes

  2. The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

    Billy Doolin

  3. More American Graffiti

    Little Joe

  4. 1978
  5. Crisis in Sun Valley

    Buchanan

  6. Thaddeus Rose and Eddie

    Eddie Lee Haskell

  7. 1977

    Aspen

    Budd Townsend · 3 episodes

  8. 1976

    Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

    Swan

  9. The Invasion of Johnson County

    George Dunning

  10. Charlie's Angels

    Beau Creel

  11. 1975
  12. The Kansas City Massacre

    Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

  13. The Runaway Barge

    Earl Owens

  14. The Nickel Ride

    Turner

  15. Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley

    Prosecuting attorney

  16. 1974
  17. 1973

    Doc Elliot

    Eldred McCoy · 14 episodes

  18. The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

    Billy

  19. 1972
  20. The Only Way Home

    Orval

  21. The Culpepper Cattle Co.

    Dixie Brick

  22. 1971
  23. Cat Ballou

    Clay

  24. Macho Callahan

    Yancy

  25. 1970
  26. The Moonshine War

    Bud Blackwell

Produced 1

Appearances4

2020s

  1. 2025

    Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas

    Self (archive footage)

2000s

  1. 2005

    Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

    Self

1980s

  1. 1984

    E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind

    Self