Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 2, 1938
Place of Birth:
Greenville, South Carolina, USA
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.
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Hillbilly Elegy | Papaw |
| 2013 | A Little Christmas Business | Coach Morris |
| 2005 | Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah | Self |
| 2003 | Shade | Lieutenant Scarne |
| 2003 | Pitcher and the Pin-Up | Coach Stangel |
| 2002 | Cowboy Up | Ray Drupp |
| 2002 | City of Ghosts | (Uncredited) |
| 2001 | A Crack in the Floor | Sheriff Talmidge |
| 2001 | Choosing Matthias | Doc |
| 2000 | Big Brother Trouble | Oddo |
| 2000 | Vice | Jamie Barnett |
| 2000 | The Thundering 8th | Col. Thompson |
| 1999 | From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money | Sheriff Lawson |
| 1999 | Time Served | Mr. D |
| 1999 | Getting to Know You | Officer Caminetto |
| 1998 | The Newton Boys | K.P. Aldrich |
| 1998 | Lunker Lake | Mitch Swindell |
| 1998 | Phantoms | Agent Hawthorne |
| 1997 | U Turn | Ed |
| 1997 | Painted Hero | Brownie |
| 1997 | Fever Lake | Sheriff Harris |
| 1996 | Uncle Sam | Sgt. Twining |
| 1996 | Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal | Rip Bartlett |
| 1996 | R.I.O.T.: The Movie | Harry McQue |
| 1995 | OP Center | Dan McCaskey |
| 1995 | The Feminine Touch | Capt. Hogan |
| 1995 | Riders in the Storm | Billy Van Owen |
| 1994 | Cheyenne Warrior | Jack Andrews |
| 1994 | Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone | Rattlesnake Reynolds |
| 1994 | Texas Payback | Sheriff Bishop |
| 1994 | Radioland Murders | Billy's Father |
| 1993 | The Ballad of Little Jo | Frank Badger |
| 1992 | Center of the Web | Frank Allesendro |
| 1992 | Inside Monkey Zetterland | Mike Zetterland |
| 1992 | The Legend of Wolf Mountain | Steven Haynes |
| 1991 | Blood Ties | Chief Hunter |
| 1990 | Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell! | Sheriff Jon Farlock |
| 1990 | The Final Alliance | Sheriff Whistler |
| 1990 | Big Bad John | Lester |
| 1989 | President's Target | Marty Rogers |
| 1989 | The Bounty Hunter | Sheriff Bennett |
| 1989 | Trapper County War | Sheriff Sam Frost |
| 1988 | Nightmare at Noon | Reilly |
| 1986 | A Smoky Mountain Christmas | Sheriff John Jensen |
| 1986 | Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills | Jud |
| 1985 | What Comes Around | Tom Hawkins |
| 1985 | Dark Horse | |
| 1984 | Night Shadows | Sheriff Will Stewart |
| 1984 | E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind | Self |
| 1983 | Sweet Sixteen | Sheriff Dan Burke |
| 1983 | Ghost Dancing | Dave Groves |
| 1980 | Casino | Stoney |
| 1980 | Rodeo Girl | Will Garrett |
| 1980 | The Plutonium Incident | Art Reeves |
| 1979 | More American Graffiti | Little Joe |
| 1979 | Beggarman, Thief | Bunny Dwyer |
| 1979 | The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang | Billy Doolin |
| 1978 | Midnight Express | Tex |
| 1978 | The Fifth Floor | Carl |
| 1978 | Crisis in Sun Valley | Buchanan |
| 1978 | Thaddeus Rose and Eddie | Eddie Lee Haskell |
| 1977 | Tentacles | Will Gleason |
| 1976 | A Small Town in Texas | Sheriff Duke |
| 1976 | The Invasion of Johnson County | George Dunning |
| 1976 | Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway | Swan |
| 1976 | Charlie's Angels | Beau Creel |
| 1975 | The Day of the Locust | Earle Shoop |
| 1975 | The Killer Elite | Jerome Miller |
| 1975 | The Nickel Ride | Turner |
| 1975 | Posse | Wesley |
| 1975 | Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley | Prosecuting attorney |
| 1975 | The Kansas City Massacre | Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd |
| 1975 | The Runaway Barge | Earl Owens |
| 1973 | American Graffiti | Joe Young |
| 1973 | White Lightning | Ray Boone |
| 1973 | The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing | Billy |
| 1972 | The Getaway | Frank Jackson |
| 1972 | The Culpepper Cattle Co. | Dixie Brick |
| 1972 | The Only Way Home | Orval |
| 1971 | Macho Callahan | Yancy |
| 1971 | Cat Ballou | Clay |
| 1970 | Monte Walsh | Jumpin' Joe Joslin |
| 1970 | The Moonshine War | Bud Blackwell |
| 1969 | The Wild Bunch | Clarence 'Crazy' Lee |
| 1969 | The Bridge at Remagen | Cpl. Grebs |
| 1969 | The Thousand Plane Raid | Capt. Douglass |
| 1968 | Dayton's Devils | Truck Driver |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | The Angry Beavers | |
| 1995 | OP Center | Dan McCaskey |
| 1986 | Matlock | Sheriff |
| 1984 | Crazy like a Fox | Lowell |
| 1984 | Finder of Lost Loves | William Davis / Drew Gilbert |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Scott Larkin |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote | Ray Jenkins |
| 1983 | The A-Team | Charles Drew |
| 1983 | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | |
| 1983 | The Hitchhiker | Lew Bridgeman |
| 1982 | Hotel | |
| 1982 | Matt Houston | |
| 1981 | Dynasty | Matthew Blaisdel |
| 1979 | Supertrain | |
| 1977 | Aspen | Budd Townsend |
| 1976 | Charlie's Angels | Wes Anderson |
| 1974 | The Manhunter | |
| 1974 | Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers | |
| 1974 | The Rockford Files | John Cooper |
| 1973 | Doc Elliot | |
| 1973 | Doc Elliot | Eldred McCoy |
| 1972 | The Rookies | |
| 1971 | Nichols | Kansas |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O | Jeb |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad | |
| 1968 | The Mod Squad | Arnie |
| 1967 | Ironside | |
| 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett | |
| 1967 | The Guns of Will Sonnett | Ben Merceen |
| 1966 | The Rat Patrol | Bo Randall |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West | Zack Garrison |
| 1962 | The Virginian | Will |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show | George |
| 1959 | Bonanza | Stretch Logan |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Harper Haggen |