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