
Bo Hopkins
Biography
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.
Filmography

Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas
2025
as Self (archive footage)

Hillbilly Elegy
2020
as Papaw

A Little Christmas Business
2013
as Coach Morris

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
as Self

Pitcher and the Pin-Up
2003
as Coach Stangel

Shade
2003
as Lieutenant Scarne

City of Ghosts
2002
as (Uncredited)

Cowboy Up
2002
as Ray Drupp

A Crack in the Floor
2001
as Sheriff Talmidge
- No poster
Choosing Matthias
2001
as Doc

Vice
2000
as Jamie Barnett

Big Brother Trouble
2000
as Oddo

The Thundering 8th
2000
as Col. Thompson

Time Served
1999
as Mr. D

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1999
as Sheriff Lawson

Getting to Know You
1999
as Officer Caminetto
- No poster
Lunker Lake
1998
as Mitch Swindell

The Newton Boys
1998
as K.P. Aldrich

Phantoms
1998
as Agent Hawthorne

Fever Lake
1997
as Sheriff Harris

U Turn
1997
as Ed

Painted Hero
1997
as Brownie

Uncle Sam
1996
as Sgt. Twining

Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal
1996
as Rip Bartlett