Bo Hopkins
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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
Credits
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
as Papaw
The Wild Bunch (1969)
as Clarence 'Crazy' Lee
American Graffiti (1973)
as Joe Young
Midnight Express (1978)
as Tex
U Turn (1997)
as Ed
The Getaway (1972)
as Frank Jackson
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
as Sheriff Lawson
The Day of the Locust (1975)
as Earle Shoop
Shade (2003)
as Lieutenant Scarne
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
as Cpl. Grebs
White Lightning (1973)
as Ray Boone
Phantoms (1998)
as Agent Hawthorne
City of Ghosts (2002)
as (Uncredited)
The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
as Dixie Brick
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
as Billy
The Newton Boys (1998)
as K.P. Aldrich
Radioland Murders (1994)
as Billy's Father
The Killer Elite (1975)
as Jerome Miller
A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)
as Sheriff John Jensen
Pitcher and the Pin-Up (2003)
as Coach Stangel
More American Graffiti (1979)
as Little Joe
Night Shadows (1984)
as Sheriff Will Stewart
A Crack in the Floor (2001)
as Sheriff Talmidge
Uncle Sam (1996)
as Sgt. Twining
Tentacles (1977)
as Will Gleason
Posse (1975)
as Wesley
The Ballad of Little Jo (1993)
as Frank Badger
Monte Walsh (1970)
as Jumpin' Joe Joslin
Cheyenne Warrior (1994)
as Jack Andrews
Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone (1994)
as Rattlesnake Reynolds
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang (1979)
as Billy Doolin
Getting to Know You (1999)
as Officer Caminetto
Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal (1996)
as Rip Bartlett
A Little Christmas Business (2013)
as Coach Morris
The Moonshine War (1970)
as Bud Blackwell
The Thousand Plane Raid (1969)
as Capt. Douglass
A Small Town in Texas (1976)
as Sheriff Duke
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (1976)
as Swan
Sweet Sixteen (1983)
as Sheriff Dan Burke
Center of the Web (1992)
as Frank Allesendro
The Kansas City Massacre (1975)
as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
Houston: The Legend of Texas (1986)
as Col. Sidney Sherman
Macho Callahan (1971)
as Yancy
Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills (1986)
as Jud
The Fifth Floor (1978)
as Carl
The Legend of Wolf Mountain (1992)
as Steven Haynes
Thaddeus Rose and Eddie (1978)
as Eddie Lee Haskell
Crisis in Sun Valley (1978)
as Buchanan
Nightmare at Noon (1988)
as Reilly
The Invasion of Johnson County (1976)
as George Dunning
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley (1975)
as Prosecuting attorney
Blood Ties (1991)
as Chief Hunter
Rodeo Girl (1980)
as Will Garrett
Fever Lake (1997)
as Sheriff Harris
E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind (1984)
as Self
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self
The Feminine Touch (1995)
as Capt. Hogan
OP Center (1995)
as Dan McCaskey
R.I.O.T.: The Movie (1996)
as Harry McQue
Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
as Mike Zetterland
Vice (2000)
as Jamie Barnett
Dayton's Devils (1968)
as Truck Driver
The Plutonium Incident (1980)
as Art Reeves
Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
The Only Way Home (1972)
as Orval
Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell! (1990)
as Sheriff Jon Farlock
Riders in the Storm (1995)
as Billy Van Owen
The Nickel Ride (1975)
as Turner
Cowboy Up (2002)
as Ray Drupp
Big Brother Trouble (2000)
as Oddo
Trapper County War (1989)
as Sheriff Sam Frost
Time Served (1999)
as Mr. D
Painted Hero (1997)
as Brownie
The Bounty Hunter (1989)
as Sheriff Bennett
Charlie's Angels (1976)
as Beau Creel
Big Bad John (1990)
as Lester
The Runaway Barge (1975)
as Earl Owens
Ghost Dancing (1983)
as Dave Groves
Casino (1980)
as Stoney
The Thundering 8th (2000)
as Col. Thompson
The Final Alliance (1990)
as Sheriff Whistler
Dark Horse (1985)
Actor
Texas Payback (1994)
as Sheriff Bishop
Cat Ballou (1971)
as Clay
President's Target (1989)
as Marty Rogers
What Comes Around (1985)
as Tom Hawkins
Choosing Matthias (2001)
as Doc
Lunker Lake (1998)
as Mitch Swindell