Bo Hopkins

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1938-02-02

Place of Birth

Greenville, South Carolina, USA

Bo Hopkins

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.

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Acting History

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