Bo Hopkins

ActorProducer Feb 2 (died age 84) Greenville, South Carolina, USA 1955–2025 (70 year career)

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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…

Known For

Film

Midnight Express

Tex

Film

The Wild Bunch

Clarence 'Crazy' Lee

Film

American Graffiti

Joe Young

Film

Hillbilly Elegy

Papaw

Film

The Getaway

Frank Jackson

Film

U Turn

Film

The Bridge at Remagen

Cpl. Grebs

Film

Shade

Lieutenant Scarne

Filmography

Acting (122)

Movies (88)

Passion & Poetry: Getaway in Texas

2025

as Self (archive footage)

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

as Papaw

6.7

A Little Christmas Business

2013

as Coach Morris

3.2

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

as Self

Shade

as Lieutenant Scarne

Pitcher and the Pin-Up

as Coach Stangel

City of Ghosts

as (Uncredited)

Cowboy Up

as Ray Drupp

A Crack in the Floor

as Sheriff Talmidge

Choosing Matthias

as Doc

Vice

as Jamie Barnett

Big Brother Trouble

2000

as Oddo

3.3

The Thundering 8th

2000

as Col. Thompson

From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money

as Sheriff Lawson

Time Served

as Mr. D

Getting to Know You

as Officer Caminetto

Phantoms

as Agent Hawthorne

The Newton Boys

as K.P. Aldrich

Lunker Lake

U Turn

as Ed

Painted Hero

as Brownie

Fever Lake

as Sheriff Harris

Uncle Sam

as Sgt. Twining

Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal

as Rip Bartlett

R.I.O.T.: The Movie

as Harry McQue

The Feminine Touch

as Capt. Hogan

OP Center

as Dan McCaskey

Riders in the Storm

as Billy Van Owen

Texas Payback

as Sheriff Bishop

Cheyenne Warrior

as Jack Andrews

Radioland Murders

as Billy's Father

Wyatt Earp: Return to Tombstone

1994

as Rattlesnake Reynolds

6.5

The Ballad of Little Jo

1993

as Frank Badger

5.8

Inside Monkey Zetterland

as Mike Zetterland

Center of the Web

as Frank Allesendro

The Legend of Wolf Mountain

as Steven Haynes

Blood Ties

as Chief Hunter

Fertilize the Blaspheming Bombshell!

1990

as Sheriff Jon Farlock

Big Bad John

as Lester

The Final Alliance

as Sheriff Whistler

President's Target

as Marty Rogers

The Bounty Hunter

as Sheriff Bennett

Trapper County War

as Sheriff Sam Frost

Nightmare at Noon

as Reilly

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

1986

as Sheriff John Jensen

5.7

Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills

as Jud

Dark Horse

What Comes Around

as Tom Hawkins

Night Shadows

as Sheriff Will Stewart

5.1

E. Nick: A Legend in His Own Mind

as Self

Sweet Sixteen

as Sheriff Dan Burke

Ghost Dancing

as Dave Groves

Rodeo Girl

as Will Garrett

The Plutonium Incident

as Art Reeves

Casino

as Stoney

More American Graffiti

as Little Joe

Beggarman, Thief

as Bunny Dwyer

The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang

as Billy Doolin

Midnight Express

as Tex

The Fifth Floor

as Carl

Thaddeus Rose and Eddie

1978

as Eddie Lee Haskell

Crisis in Sun Valley

1978

as Buchanan

Tentacles

1977

as Will Gleason

4.6

A Small Town in Texas

1976

as Sheriff Duke

4.5

The Invasion of Johnson County

1976

as George Dunning

6.5

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

1976

as Swan

4.9

Charlie's Angels

1976

as Beau Creel

The Day of the Locust

as Earle Shoop

The Killer Elite

as Jerome Miller

The Nickel Ride

as Turner

Posse

as Wesley

Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley

1975

as Prosecuting attorney

3.7

The Runaway Barge

1975

as Earl Owens

The Kansas City Massacre

1975

as Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd

American Graffiti

as Joe Young

White Lightning

as Ray Boone

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

as Billy

The Getaway

as Frank Jackson

The Culpepper Cattle Co.

1972

as Dixie Brick

6.3

The Only Way Home

1972

as Orval

Macho Callahan

1971

as Yancy

4.2

Cat Ballou

1971

as Clay

Monte Walsh

1970

as Jumpin' Joe Joslin

The Moonshine War

as Bud Blackwell

The Wild Bunch

as Clarence 'Crazy' Lee

7.6

The Bridge at Remagen

1969

as Cpl. Grebs

6.8

The Thousand Plane Raid

as Capt. Douglass

Dayton's Devils

as Truck Driver

Television (34)

The Angry Beavers

OP Center

as Dan McCaskey

Matlock

as Sheriff

Murder, She Wrote

as Ray Jenkins

Crazy like a Fox

as Lowell

Finder of Lost Loves

as William Davis / Drew Gilbert

The A-Team

as Charles Drew

The Hitchhiker

as Lew Bridgeman

Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Hotel

Matt Houston

Dynasty

as Matthew Blaisdel

Supertrain

Beggarman, Thief

as Bunny Dwyer

Aspen

as Budd Townsend

Charlie's Angels

as Beau Creel

The Rockford Files

as John Cooper

The Manhunter

Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers

Doc Elliot

Doc Elliot

as Eldred McCoy

The Rookies

Nichols

as Kansas

Hawaii Five-O

as Jeb

The Mod Squad

Ironside

The Guns of Will Sonnett

The Rat Patrol

as Bo Randall

The Wild Wild West

as Zack Garrison

The Virginian

as Will

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

as Self

5.4

The Andy Griffith Show

as George

Bonanza

as Stretch Logan

Gunsmoke

as Harper Haggen

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Shade

2003

Executive Producer

6.2