Timothy Bottoms

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 Thats My Bush in the comedy film The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course and the docudrama DC 911 Time of Crisis Bottoms made his film debut in 1971 as Joe Bonham in Dalton Trumbos 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 1973s The Paper Chase he starred as Harvard law student Hart facing the fearsome Professor Kingsfield John Houseman Among the other films he has appeared in are Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder Operation Daybreak A Small Town in Texas Rollercoaster Hurricane Invaders from Mars and Elephant Bottoms has portrayed US President George W Bush in three widely varying productions In 2000 and 2001 he played a parody of Bush in the Comedy Central sitcom Thats My Bush he subsequently appeared as Bush in a cameo appearance in the family film The Crocodile Hunter Collision Course Finally following the September 11 attacks Bottoms once again played Bush this time in a serious fashion in the TV film DC 911 Time of Crisis one of the first films to be based upon the attacks During an episode of the Fox television show That 70s Show in which a tornado warning has been issued and the students of the high school are trapped Bottoms is seen as the panicking principal He appeared in a recurring role during the first season of the FX series Dirt as Gibson Horne who owned the magazine that series main character Lucy Spiller worked for He also coproduced the documentary Picture This The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City Texas a behindthescenes work about the making of the films The Last Picture Show and Texasville In the documentary he revealed that he had a crush on his costar Cybill Shepherd during The Last Picture Show but she did not reciprocate his romantic feelings even though she said in a separate interview that she found him very attractive He was also heavily featured in the Metallica video for One which featured footage of the film Johnny Got His Gun Description above from the Wikipedia article Timothy Bottoms licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia