Cast & creator
Timothy Bottoms
Best known for Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, The View
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Timothy James Bottoms is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in Johnny Got His Gun; Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show; The Paper Chase; and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom That's My Bush!; in the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and the docudrama DC 9/11: Time of Crisis. Bottoms made his film debut in 1971 as Joe Bonham 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). In 1973's The Paper Chase, he starred as Harvard law student Hart facing the fearsome Professor Kingsfield (John Houseman). Among the other films he has appeared in are Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder, Operation Daybreak, A Small Town in Texas, Rollercoaster, Hurricane, Invaders from Mars and Elephant. Bottoms has portrayed U.S. President George W. Bush in three widely varying productions. In 2000 and 2001, he played a parody of Bush in the Comedy Central sitcom That's My Bush!; he subsequently appeared as Bush in a cameo appearance in the family film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course. Finally, following the September 11 attacks, Bottoms once again played Bush, this time in a serious fashion, in the TV film DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, one of the first films 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. He appeared in a recurring role during the first season of the FX series Dirt as Gibson Horne, who owned the magazine that series main character Lucy Spiller worked for. He also co-produced the documentary Picture This – The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas, a behind-the-scenes work about the making of 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 did not reciprocate his romantic feelings, even though she said in a separate interview that she found him "very attractive". He was also heavily featured in the Metallica video for "One", which featured footage of the film Johnny Got His Gun. Description above from the Wikipedia article Timothy Bottoms, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Timothy James Bottoms, Tim Bottoms
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Filmography (116)
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Grey's Anatomy
Carl Murphy
2005
NCIS
Ritt Everett
2003
The View
Self
1997
That '70s Show
Vice Principal Cole
1998
Private Practice
Irwin
2007
The Twilight Zone
1985
Dinah!
Self - Guest
1974
The Hitchhiker
Peter
1983
Freddy's Nightmares
Mr. Franklin
1988
The Girl Next Door
Mr. Kidman
2004
Dirt
Gibson Horne
2007
East of Eden
Adam Trask
1981
The Last Picture Show
Sonny Crawford
1971
Elephant
Mr. McFarland
2003
That's My Bush!
George W. Bush
2001
Land of the Lost
Tom Porter
1991
500 Nations
1995
Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers
Miles Eastin
1976
Picture This
Self
1991Picture This
Producer
1991
Invaders from Mars
George Gardner
1986
Johnny Got His Gun
Joe Bonham
1971
The Story of David
David
1976
The Drifter
Arthur
1988
Vampire Bats
Hank Poelker
2005
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
George Gardner (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Call of the Wild
Heep
2009
Parasomnia
Dr. Corso
2008
The Land That Time Forgot
Captain Burroughs
2009
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
George W. Bush (uncredited)
2002
Holiday in Handcuffs
Dad Chandler
2007
Mio in the Land of Faraway
The King
1987
Uncle Sam
Donald Crandall
1996
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
Walter Bedell 'Beetle' Smith
2004
Operation: Daybreak
Jan Kubis
1975
The Shed
Ellis
2019
The Paper Chase
James T. Hart
1973
An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong
Paul Maxwell
2009
The Man in the Iron Mask
Fouquet
1998
Rollercoaster
Young Man
1977
Diamondbacks
Ed Williams
1998
Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance
Thomas
2008
Return from the River Kwai
Seaman Miller
1989
Total Force
Drake
1996
Deceit
Martin Ford
2006
Top Dog
Nelson Houseman
1995
How Not to Propose
Rick
2015
A Small Town in Texas
Poke Jackson
1976
DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
George W. Bush
2003
The Story of David
David
1976
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
Walter Elbertson
1973Istanbul
Frank Collins
1989
Death Game
Jack
1996
Shanghai Kiss
Adelaide's Father
2007
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro
Jack Ringtree
1986
The Gift of Love
Rudi Miller
1978
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Father Thomas O'Neil
1986
Bound By a Secret
Will
2009
Mr. Atlas
Phillip Frodden
1997
The Governor's Wife
Sheriff Carl Lovett
2008
Ringer
Clay
1996
Ripper Man
Charles Walkan
1995
Pocket Angel
Himself
2005
Hurricane
Jack Sanford
1979
The White Dawn
Daggett
1974
The Sea Serpent
Pedro Fontán
1985
A Shining Season
John Baker
1979
The Prince and the Surfer
Johnny Canty
1999
Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Clarence
2005
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
Self
1999
Digger
Sam Corlett
1993
The Census Taker
Pete
1984
Ava's Magical Adventure
Slayton
1998
Lone Rider
Gus
2008
Welcome to the Men's Group
Larry
2016
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Morris Frank
1984
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Self
2010
The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II
John Boothe
1978
I Married Who?
Mike Swift
2012
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
Vrooder
1974
Held for Ransom
Fred Donovan
2000
Tar
Barry Greenwood
2020
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004
Joe Bonham (video "One")
2006
What Waits Below
Major Elbert Stevens
1984
Hambone and Hillie
Michael Radcliffe
1983
A Case of Honor
Sgt. Joseph 'Hard' Case
1988
No Rest for the Wicked
Father Jeremy
1998
Texasville
Sonny Crawford
1990
Escape
Dwight Worker
1980
Personal Vendetta
Zach Blackwell
1995
Illusion Infinity
Francis / Douglas / Henry / Patricia's Father / Older Alan
2004
Pound of Flesh
Cameron Morris
2011
The $cheme
Rotunno
2003
The Fantasist
Danny Sullivan
1986
Black Sea 213
Dean
1998
Look Homeward, Angel
Eugene Gant
1972
Hourglass
Jurgen Brauner
1997
X-Treme Teens
John
1999
Maximum Justice
Salvatore Solleto
1998
Fox Hunt
Frank
1996Along the Way
Michael McCaffery
2007
The High Country
Jim
1981
Lone Tiger
Marcus
1996
Horses and Champions
Ben Choice
1996The Prince
1996
Island Sons
Tim Faraday
1987
John Glenn: American Hero
Narrator
1998
The One-Nighter
Louie
2012
Murder Scene
Detective Stepnoski
2000
Absolute Force
Lt. John Drake
1997
The Hiding Place
Jack
2000
Desperate Obsession
1995
Paradise Texas
Mack Cameron
2005Tin Man
Casey
1983
Tiger
Larry
1998
Yakuza Connection
Ward Derderian
1995