Timothy Bottoms

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.

Timothy James Bottoms ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Timothy Bottoms ist der älteste von vier Brüdern, die alle Schauspieler geworden sind: Joseph Bottoms (* 1954), Sam Bottoms (1955–2008) und Ben Bottoms (* 1960) arbeiteten ebenfalls im Filmgeschäft. Sein vielversprechendes Filmdebüt gab Timothy Bottoms 1971 unter Regie von Dalton Trumbo im Antikriegsfilm Johnny zieht in den Krieg. Noch im selben Jahr spielte er als Sonny Crawford auch die Hauptrolle in dem Kultfilm Die letzte Vorstellung von Peter Bogdanovich 1971. Nach guten Kritiken für seine durchaus anspruchsvollen Darstellungen in Johnny zieht in den Krieg und Die letzte Vorstellung galt Bottoms als kommender Hollywood-Star und spielte unter anderem 1973 an der Seite von John Houseman in Zeit der Prüfungen. Nach einer Reihe von unglücklichen Filmflops Mitte der 1970er-Jahre nahm Bottoms Popularität allerdings bald wieder ab. Bottoms versuchte sich fortan in experimentelleren Rollen. In den 1980er- und 1990er-Jahren wirkte Bottoms als Haupt- und Nebendarsteller einer großen Anzahl von B-Movies mit, ohne dass sich der alte Erfolg wieder einstellte. Erneute Aufmerksamkeit brachte ihm seine große äußerliche Ähnlichkeit mit dem damaligen US-Präsidenten George W. Bush, weshalb er diesen in mehreren Filmen sowie der Fernsehserie Hier kommt Bush! darstellte.