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








