BO HOPKINS BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Bo Hopkins was born on February 2nd, 1942 in Greenville, South Carolina. After his father passed away when he was only nine years old his mother and grandmother raised him. At the age of sixteen he lied about his age and joined the United States Army. Once he completed his service, Hopkins decided he wanted to pursue a career as an actor.
He began like many other actors working as a stage actor and joined a summer stock company. He was also offered a number of very small parts in a variety of television shows.
After gaining some experience he felt he was ready for the film industry and began appearing on such films as, "The Wild Bunch" (1969), "The Getaway" (1972), "White Lightning" (1973), "The Killer Elite" (1975), "Midnight Express" (1978), "American Graffiti" (1973), "The Bounty Hunter" (1990) and "U Turn" (1997).
Along with film work he added numerous more television credits to his resume with such series as, "Hotel" (1983), "Rockford Files" (1974), "Charlie's Angels" (1976), "Dynasty" (1981), "The A-Team" (1983), "Hawaii Five-O" (1973), "Murder, She Wrote" (1985-1992) and "Bonanza" (1969).
Some of his more recent roles have been in the film, "Shade" (2003), "The Road Home" (2003) and "Open Window" (2006). In all he appeared in more then one hundred film and television roles.
Bo is currently married to his second wife, Sian Eleanor Green whom he wed in 1989 and they have one son, Matthew. The family resides in Los Angeles, California. He also has one daughter from his first marriage.
Filmography
2006 Open Window
2003 The Road Home
2003 Shade
2002 City of Ghosts
2002 Don't Let Go
2001 Cowboy Up
2001 A Crack in the Floor
2001 Choosing Matthias
2000 The Angry Beavers
2000 Vice
2000 Big Brother Trouble
2000 South of Heaven, West of Hell
2000 The Thundering 8th
1999 Time Served
1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1999 Getting to Know You
1998 The Newton Boys
1998 Phantoms
1997 Nuclear Strike
1997 Painted Hero
1997 U Turn
1997 Uncle Sam
1997 Lunker Lake
1996 The Feminine Touch
1996 Shaughnessy
1996 Fever Lake
1996 Texas Payback
1996 R.I.O.T.: The Movie
1995 Riders in the Storm
1995 OP Center
1994 Radioland Murders
1994 Cheyenne Warrior
1994 Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone
1993 The Ballad of Little Jo
1992 Inside Monkey Zetterland
1992 The Legend of Wolf Mountain
1992 Center of the Web
1985-1992 Murder, She Wrote
1991 Blood Ties
1991 Matlock
1990 The Final Alliance
1990 The Bounty Hunter
1990 Big Bad John
1990 Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell
1989 The Man from Nowhere
1989 Trapper County War
1988 Death Street USA
1981-1987 Dynasty
1987 The New Mike Hammer
1986 A Smoky Mountain Christmas
1986 Houston: The Legend of Texas
1986 Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
1986 Crazy Like a Fox
1986 What Comes Around
1986 The Fall Guy
1985 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1985 The Hitchhiker
1985 Dark Horse
1984 Finder of Lost Loves
1984 Night Shadows
1984 Hotel
1984 The A-Team
1983 Ghost Dancing
1983 Sweet 16
1983 Matt Houston
1982 Fantasy Island
1980 Rodeo Girl
1980 Casino
1980 The Plutonium Incident
1979 Beggarman, Thief
1979 The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
1976-1979 Charlie's Angels
1979 More American Graffiti
1979 Supertrain
1978-1979 The Rockford Files
1978 The Fifth Floor
1978 Midnight Express
1978 The Busters
1978 Crisis in Sun Valley
1978 Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
1977 Aspen
1977 Tentacles
1976 Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
1976 The Invasion of Johnson County
1976 A Small Town in Texas
1976 Jigsaw John
1975 The Killer Elite
1975 Barnaby Jones
1975 The Kansas City Massacre
1975 Posse
1975 The Day of the Locust
1975 The Runaway Barge
1975 Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley
1974 The Rookies
1974 The Manhunter
1974 The Nickel Ride
1973 Hawaii Five-O
1973 White Lightning
1973 American Graffiti
1973 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973 Doc Elliot
1973 The Gondola
1972 The Getaway
1972 The Only Way Home
1972 The Culpepper Cattle Co.
1972 Nichols
1972 Ironside
1971 Cat Ballou
1969-1970 Mod Squad
1970 Monte Walsh
1970 Macho Callahan
1970 The Moonshine War
1969 Bonanza
1969 The Thousand Plane Raid
1969 The Bridge at Remagen
1969 The Wild Bunch
1968 The Guns of Will Sonnett
1968 Dayton's Devils
1968 The Rat Patrol
1967 The Andy Griffith Show
1967 The Wild Wild West
1967 Gunsmoke
1967 The Virginian
1966 The Phyllis Diller Show