Bo HopkinsNationality:
American Birthdate:
02/02/1942 Birthplace:
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biography
Blond character player and occasional lead of films and TV who played impetuous, thrill-seeking and sometimes violent country boys early in his career and later specialized in sturdy, though occasionally still villainous, authority figures. Hopkins studied under Uta Hagen and at the Desilu Playhouse, where his work netted him an agent and an audition for director Sam Peckinpah. Soon thereafter he made his film debut in Peckinpah's violent, strikingly elegiac landmark Western, "The Wild Bunch" (1969). With his tousled hair, clear eyes and Southern drawl, Hopkins adeptly played a variety of
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Milestone
Served with the US Army in the late 1950s
Acting roles in several productions of the Desilu Playhouse led to his getting an agent, and consequently an audition with director Sam Peckinpah
1969
Made film acting debut in Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch"; was also the first of three films for director Peckinpah
1971
Earliest TV appearances included a Western-comedy series pilot, "Cat Ballou", based on the hit film of 1965
1972
First feature lead and first top billing, "The Only Way Home"
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