Actor

Timothy Bottoms

August 30, 1951 · Santa Barbara, California, USA

Timothy James Bottoms is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for playing the lead in Johnny Got His Gun; Sonny Crawford in The Last Picture Show; The Paper Chase; and for playing President George W. Bush multiple times, including on the sitcom That's My Bush!; in the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course and the docudrama DC 9/11: Time of Crisis. Bottoms made his film debut in 1971 as Joe Bonham in Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun. The same year, he appeared alongside his brother Sam in The Last Picture Show. (He portrayed the same character in the 1990 sequel Texasville). In 1973's The Paper Chase, he starred as Harvard law student Hart facing the fearsome Professor Kingsfield (John Houseman).

Notable work

8.2
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
as Carl Murphy
7.6
NCIS (2003)
as Ritt Everett
7
Elephant (2003)
as Mr. McFarland
7.9
That '70s Show (1998)
as Vice Principal Cole
7.6
The Last Picture Show (1971)
as Sonny Crawford
7.5
Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
as Joe Bonham
7.5
Private Practice (2007)
as Irwin

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