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

Biography

Personal life

Bottoms was born in Santa Barbara, California, the eldest son of Betty (née Chapman) and James "Bud" Bottoms, who was a sculptor and art teacher. He is the brother of actors Joseph Bottoms (born 1954), Sam Bottoms (1955-2008) and Ben Bottoms (born 1960). In 1967, Bottoms toured Europe as part of the Santa Barbara Madrigal Society.

In 2008, Timothy Bottoms faced personal tragedy when his brother Sam Bottoms died of brain cancer at the age of 53. At one point, Sam was the only sibling close to Timothy.

Career

Bottoms made his film debut in 1971 as a horrifically mutilated World War I 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, Rollercoaster and Elephant.

Bottoms has a unique notability for portraying U.S. President George W. Bush in three widely 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). He appears in 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.

Filmography

• Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)
• The Paper Chase (1973)
• The White Dawn (1974)
• The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
• Operation Daybreak (1975)
• A Small Town in Texas (1976)
• Rollercoaster (1977)
• The Other Side of the Mountain Part II (1978)
• Hurricane (1979)
• The High Country (1981)
• Tin Man (1983)
• What Waits Below (1984)
• Serpiente de Mar (The Sea Serpent) (1984)
• Hambone and Hillie (1984)
• The Census Taker (1984)
• The Fantasist (1986)
• In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro (1986)
• Invaders from Mars (1986)
• Mio min Mio (Mio in the Land of Faraway) (1987)
• A Case of Honor (1988)
• The Drifter (1988)
• Return from the River Kwai (1989)
• Istanbul (1989)
• Texasville (1990)
• Digger (1993)
• Fox Hunt (1993) (VG)
• Horses and Champions (1994)
• Ava's Magical Adventure (1994)
• Ill Met by Moonlight (1994)
• Blue Sky (1994)
• Desperate Obsession (1995)
• Hourglass (1995)
• Top Dog (1995)
• Ripper Man (1996)
• The Prince (1996)
• Fox Hunt (1996)
• Ringer (1996)
• American Hero (1997)
• Total Force (1997)
• Tiger (1997)
• Absolute Force (1997)
• Mr. Atlas (1997)
• Uncle Sam (1997)
• The Waterfront (1998)
• No Rest for the Wicked (1998)
• Black Sea 213 (1998)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
• Diamondbacks (1998)
• Mixed Blessings (1998)
• The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes (1999)
• Lone Tiger (1999)
• The Prince and the Surfer (1999)
• The Hiding Place (2000)
• Held for Ransom (2000)
• The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)
• Elephant (2003)
• The Entrepreneurs (2003)
• Paradise (2004) (aka Illusion Infinity)
• The Girl Next Door (2004)
• Paradise, Texas (2005)
• Shanghai Kiss (2007)
• Along the Way (2007)
• Parasomnia (2008)
• Chinaman's Chance (2008)
• An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
• Call of the Wild (2009)
• The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
• Pound of Flesh (2009)

Television

• Look Homeward, Angel (1972)
• Winesburg, Ohio (1973)
• The Story of David (1976)
• Arthur Hailey's the Moneychangers (1976)
• The Gift of Love (1978)
• A Shining Season (1979)
• Escape (1980)
• East of Eden (1981)
• Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984)
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (1986)
• The Hitchhiker (1987)
• Island Sons (1987)
• The Twilight Zone (1988)
• Freddy's Nightmares (1989)
• The Ray Bradbury Theater (1990) (episode Here There Be Tygers)
• Land of the Lost (1991)
• Personal Vendetta (1995)
• Yakuza Connection (1995)
• 500 Nations (1995)
• Death Game (1996)
• Murder Seen (2000)
• That's My Bush! (2001)
• Gideon's Crossing (2001)
• That '70s Show (2002)
• DC 9/11: Time of Crisis (2003)
• Ike: Countdown to D-Day (2004)
• NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (2004)
• Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't (2005)
• Vampire Bats (2005)
• Grey's Anatomy (2005)
• Deceit (2006)
• Dirt (2007)
• Holiday in Handcuffs (2007)
• Lone Rider (2008)
• The Governor's Wife (2008)
• Bound by a Secret (2009)

Producer

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

References

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