William Hootkins

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William Hootkins at a fan event (2002)

William Michael Hootkins (born July 5, 1948 in Dallas , Texas , † October 23, 2005 in Pacific Palisades , Santa Monica ) was an American actor .

biography

Hootkins studied Russian at his school in Dallas , where he discovered his interest in the theater and joined the same drama group in which Tommy Lee Jones was a member. He later studied at Princeton University , where he learned fluent standard Chinese and was again a member of the theater company. In the early 1970s he moved to London , where he trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art .

In England he began to work as a theater actor and was able to increase his profile with the role of Alfred Hitchcock in the play Hitchcock Blonce at the Royal Court Theater . He then became active as a film actor and played the overweight pilot Jek Porkins (Red Six) in the science fiction film Star Wars in 1977 . In the following years he played in several large productions, u. a. in Raiders of the Lost Ark , Superman IV and as crook Lieutenant Max Eckhardt in Batman (1989). He was also an active voice actor, voicing a variety of characters on radio shows, audio books and video games.

William Hootkins died of pancreatic cancer in Santa Monica at the age of 57.

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SURNAME Hootkins, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hootkins, William Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas , Texas
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2005
Place of death Pacific Palisades , Santa Monica