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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 2, 1938
Died
May 28, 2022
Place of Birth
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
- William Mauldin Hopkins
- بو هاپکینز
Bo Hopkins
1.0 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas
2025
6.7
Papaw
Hillbilly Elegy
2020
3.2
Coach Morris
A Little Christmas Business
2013
7.4
Self
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
6.2
Coach Stangel
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
2003
6.2
Lieutenant Scarne
Shade
2003
5.8
(Uncredited)
City of Ghosts
2002
5.9
Ray Drupp
Cowboy Up
2002
3.4
Sheriff Talmidge
A Crack in the Floor
2001
🎬
2.7
Doc
Choosing Matthias
2001
Credits
Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Hillbilly Elegy
as Papaw
2020
6.7
A Little Christmas Business
as Coach Morris
2013
3.2
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
as Self
2005
7.4
Pitcher and the Pin-Up
as Coach Stangel
2003
6.2
Shade
as Lieutenant Scarne
2003
6.2
City of Ghosts
as (Uncredited)
2002
5.8
Cowboy Up
as Ray Drupp
2002
5.9
A Crack in the Floor
as Sheriff Talmidge
2001
3.4
🎬
Choosing Matthias
as Doc
2001
2.7
Vice
as Jamie Barnett
2000
0.0
Big Brother Trouble
as Oddo
2000
3.3
The Thundering 8th
as Col. Thompson
2000
0.0
Time Served
as Mr. D
1999
2.2
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
as Sheriff Lawson
1999
4.6
Getting to Know You
as Officer Caminetto
1999
7.5
🎬
Lunker Lake
1998
0.0
The Newton Boys
as K.P. Aldrich
1998
6.1
Phantoms
as Agent Hawthorne
1998
5.4
Fever Lake
as Sheriff Harris
1997
2.8
U Turn
as Ed
1997
6.6
Painted Hero
as Brownie
1997
4.8
The Angry Beavers
1997
6.9
Uncle Sam
as Sgt. Twining
1996
4.8
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
as Rip Bartlett
1996
5.0
R.I.O.T.: The Movie
as Harry McQue
1996
4.0
Riders in the Storm
as Billy Van Owen
1995
1.0
OP Center
as Dan McCaskey
1995
5.9
OP Center
as Dan McCaskey
1995
5.0
The Feminine Touch
as Capt. Hogan
1995
6.5
Texas Payback
as Sheriff Bishop
1994
5.0
Radioland Murders
as Billy's Father
1994
5.9
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
as Rattlesnake Reynolds
1994
6.5
Cheyenne Warrior
as Jack Andrews
1994
7.2
The Ballad of Little Jo
as Frank Badger
1993
5.8
Inside Monkey Zetterland
as Mike Zetterland
1992
3.0
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
as Steven Haynes
1992
4.5
Center of the Web
as Frank Allesendro
1992
3.0
Blood Ties
as Chief Hunter
1991
4.7
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!
as Sheriff Jon Farlock
1990
2.4
The Final Alliance
as Sheriff Whistler
1990
5.9
Big Bad John
as Lester
1990
4.0
The Bounty Hunter
as Sheriff Bennett
1989
2.4
President's Target
as Marty Rogers
1989
4.0
Trapper County War
as Sheriff Sam Frost
1989
3.5
Nightmare at Noon
as Reilly
1988
4.5
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
as Sheriff John Jensen
1986
5.7
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
as Jud
1986
5.8
Matlock
as Sheriff
1986
7.1
What Comes Around
as Tom Hawkins
1985
2.7
Dark Horse
1985
0.0
Crazy like a Fox
as Lowell
1984
7.1
Murder, She Wrote
as Scott Larkin
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Ray Jenkins
1984
7.5
Finder of Lost Loves
as William Davis / Drew Gilbert
1984
5.7
Night Shadows
as Sheriff Will Stewart
1984
5.1
🎬
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind
as Self
1984
1.0
The Hitchhiker
as Lew Bridgeman
1983
6.1
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
6.4
🎬
Ghost Dancing
as Dave Groves
1983
2.0
Sweet Sixteen
as Sheriff Dan Burke
1983
4.7
The A-Team
as Charles Drew
1983
7.5
Matt Houston
1982
6.2
Hotel
1982
6.8
Dynasty
as Matthew Blaisdel
1981
6.4
Rodeo Girl
as Will Garrett
1980
10.0
Casino
as Stoney
1980
10.0
The Plutonium Incident
as Art Reeves
1980
5.0
Beggarman, Thief
as Bunny Dwyer
1979
6.0
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
as Billy Doolin
1979
1.9
More American Graffiti
as Little Joe
1979
5.2
Supertrain
1979
5.0
The Fifth Floor
as Carl
1978
4.5
Midnight Express
as Tex
1978
7.4
Crisis in Sun Valley
as Buchanan
1978
0.0
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
as Eddie Lee Haskell
1978
0.0
Aspen
as Budd Townsend
1977
6.0
Tentacles
as Will Gleason
1977
4.6
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
as Swan
1976
4.9
Charlie's Angels
as Wes Anderson
1976
6.7
The Invasion of Johnson County
as George Dunning
1976
6.5
A Small Town in Texas
as Sheriff Duke
1976
4.5
Charlie's Angels
as Beau Creel
1976
0.0
The Killer Elite
as Jerome Miller
1975
5.7
The Kansas City Massacre
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
1975
4.7
Posse
as Wesley
1975
6.0
The Day of the Locust
as Earle Shoop
1975
6.4
The Runaway Barge
as Earl Owens
1975
0.0
The Nickel Ride
as Turner
1975
5.5
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
as Prosecuting attorney
1975
3.5
🎬
Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
1974
5.0
The Rockford Files
as John Cooper
1974
7.6
The Manhunter
1974
5.0
Doc Elliot
1973
0.0
Doc Elliot
as Eldred McCoy
1973
0.0
American Graffiti
as Joe Young
1973
7.0
White Lightning
as Ray Boone
1973
6.1
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
as Billy
1973
5.7
The Getaway
as Frank Jackson
1972
7.1
The Rookies
1972
6.8
The Only Way Home
as Orval
1972
0.0
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
as Dixie Brick
1972
6.3
Nichols
as Kansas
1971
5.0
Cat Ballou
as Clay
1971
0.0
Macho Callahan
as Yancy
1971
4.2
Monte Walsh
as Jumpin' Joe Joslin
1970
6.2
The Moonshine War
as Bud Blackwell
1970
5.5
The Thousand Plane Raid
as Capt. Douglass
1969
6.0
The Bridge at Remagen
as Cpl. Grebs
1969
6.8
The Wild Bunch
as Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
1969
7.6
🎬
Dayton's Devils
as Truck Driver
1968
1.0
The Mod Squad
1968
6.2
The Mod Squad
as Arnie
1968
6.2
Hawaii Five-O
as Jeb
1968
7.1
The Guns of Will Sonnett
1967
6.2
The Guns of Will Sonnett
as Ben Merceen
1967
6.2
Ironside
1967
6.8
The Rat Patrol
as Bo Randall
1966
7.2
The Wild Wild West
as Zack Garrison
1965
7.6
The Virginian
as Will
1962
6.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
The Andy Griffith Show
as George
1960
7.6
Bonanza
as Stretch Logan
1959
7.5
Gunsmoke
as Harper Haggen
1955
6.6