Timothy Bottoms Filmography

Parasomnia

Actors: Cherilyn Wilson, Dylan Purcell, Patrick Kilpatrick, Jeffrey Combs, Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: House on Haunted Hill director William Malone writes and directs this dreary-eyed horror thriller concerning a woman who suffers from parasomnia - a rare medical condition that causes its victims to literally sleep away their lives, only waking for brief periods on rare occasions. Cheryl Wilson Read More

Holiday in Handcuffs

Actors: Melissa Joan Hart, Mario Lopez, Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: Unlucky in life and love, quirky waitress Trudie (Melissa Joan Hart) takes the holidays -- and the law -- into her own hands. Unable to brave Christmas with her family as a single woman, Trudie kidnaps restaurant customer David Martin (Mario Lopez) and introduces him to her family as her Read More

Dirt: Season 01

Actors: Courteney Cox Arquette, Ian Hart, Josh Stewart, Jeffrey Nordling, Timothy Bottoms, Laura Allen

Paradise, Texas

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Sheryl Lee, Brandon Smith, Rider Strong, Connie Cooper

Synopsis: Timothy Bottoms stars in this bittersweet drama about Mack Cameron, a famous Hollywood actor dealing with a midlife crisis and struggling marriage. When an on-location shoot lands him back in his small Texas hometown for the first time in years, Cameron gets answers to life's questions from some Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Owner of a Lonely Heart

Synopsis: Rosanna Arquette guest stars as convict Constance Ferguson, who tries to get out of solitary confinement by swallowing four razor blades--an act of pathetic bravado that earns the contempt of Cristina (Sandra Oh). Elsewhere, the newborn quintuplets and their mother (Margaret Welsh) are suffering Read More

Vampire Bats

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Dylan Neal, Brett Butler, Liam Waite

Synopsis: Having survived a traumatic encounter with hordes of dangerous locusts, Dr. Maddy Reardon (Lucy Lawless), a specialist in the behavior patterns of voracious insects, accepts what she thinks will be a stress-free job as a professor at Tate University in Louisiana. Unfortunately, Maddy is once again Read More

Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Synopsis: Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't is one of several Hallmark Channel TV-movies starring Lea Thompson as suburban housewife and mom Kathy Davis (Lea Thompson), who unbeknownst to her family occasionally moonlights as an undercover special agent and "problem solver" for the NSA. When the Read More

The Girl Next Door

Actors: Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant, James Remar, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: Boy meets girl who's already met all sorts of boys and girls in this teen-slanted comedy. Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is a straight-laced and highly ambitious high school student who plans to study at Georgetown University and dreams of a career in politics. While most of his classmates are in Read More

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Gerald McRaney, James Remar, Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the television film Ike: Countdown to D-Day. The film follows the General in the three months leading up to the decisive invasion that would turn the tide of World War II toward the Allied powers. The film opens with Winston Churchill (Ian Mune) Read More

Illusion Infinity

Actors: Dee Wallace Stone, Mickey Rooney, Barbara Carrera, Martin Kove

Synopsis: A successful Las Vegas singer who lost everything when her casino mogul husband dropped dead of a heart attack gets a second shot at happiness after leaving town in the middle of the night and encountering a spiritual guide who shows her just what she's been missing all these years. Patricia Read More

Elephant

Actors: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor

Synopsis: Director Gus Van Sant returned to the low-key style of his early independent efforts with this semi-improvised exploration of how violence makes its way into a typical American high school. Eric (Eric Deulen) and Alex (Alex Frost) are two close friends who are students in a well-to-do suburb of Read More

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, John Cunningham, David Fonteno

Synopsis: Filmed under the title The Big Dance, this tense, made-for-cable docudrama recreates the events following the devastating terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. The focus is on President George W. Bush, here played by Timothy Bottoms. Inasmuch as the film Read More

The Hiding Place

Actors: Kim Hunter, Timothy Bottoms, Kim Greist, Hayden Tank

Synopsis: Kim Hunter, the woman who played the legendary Stella Kowalski in 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire, finds herself in another production revolving around madness and psychological instability, though this time from a more geriatric point-of-view. Douglas Green's feature directorial debut, based on Read More

Murder Seen

Actors: Nicole Eggert, Callum Keith Rennie, Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: A woman finds herself walking a fine line between dreams and reality in this thriller. Zoey Drayden (Nicole Eggert) is a college student studying botany who has been having horrible dreams about a series of murders. One night, after receiving a telephone call frantically begging for help, Zoey Read More

Held for Ransom

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Zachery Ty Bryan

Synopsis: This suspense film features Dennis Hopper as JD, a crazed kidnapper who hijacks a school bus (not unlike his crazed kidnapper in Speed) and holds the students hostage (one of the students is played by former Home Improvement star Zachery Ty Bryan). Even if the hostages are able to break free from Read More

Black Sea 213

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Jacqueline Lovell

The Prince and the Surfer

Synopsis: Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper gets an update and an overhaul in this family-oriented comedy. "Cash" Canty (Sean Kellman) is a typical Southern California kid who likes surfing, skateboarding, and pretty much anything that can be described as "rad." Prince Edward of Gelfland is the heir to Read More

Diamondbacks

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Christopher Mitchum, Miles O'Keeffe

Synopsis: When the FBI puts its war against terrorism into space, the terrorists fight back in this action drama. In an effort to more closely monitor the activities of underground militia groups, the U.S. government schedules the launch of a surveillance satellite designed specifically to keep tabs on Read More

X-Treme Teens

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: Jeff Burr's family friendly science fiction film The X-Treme Teens stars Bryan Neal as Andy, a teenager who one day discovers a special pair of powerful glasses. Not long after that, he is approached by aliens who need his help in order to retrieve a lost item that, in the wrong hands, could Read More

The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Edward Albert, Dana Barron, Timothy Bottoms, Brigid Brannah, Fannie Brett

Synopsis: Actor-director William Richert (Winter Kills), who directed the late River Phoenix in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), originally planned this low-budget adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1848-50 classic adventure, as a vehicle for River Phoenix. Casting his son, Nick Richert, in the dual Read More

Uncle Sam

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Robert Forster, Bo Hopkins, P.J. Soles, William Smith

Synopsis: After being killed by friendly fire during the Gulf War, soldier Sam Harper (David Shark Fralick) inexplicably returns from the dead to wreak revenge upon corrupt military men, draft dodgers, tax cheats, and flag burners. His memory is cherished only by his nephew, who doesn't realize that in life Read More

Mr. Atlas

Actors: T.J. Lowther, Laura Johnson, Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: In this youthful adventure fantasy, a young boy goes for a walk, accidentally falls into a deep hole, and finds himself face-to-face with the Greek god Atlas. The two become good friends, and after the legendary hero brings the boy to safety, the boy shows his gratitude by inviting Atlas to his Read More

Ringer

Actors: Maud Adams, Timothy Bottoms, Shannon Whirry

Synopsis: In this thriller, a detective helps save a prostitute from a stalker. The gumshoe's investigation throws them into a world where no one is quite who they seem and where everyone has a shady past. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mortal Challenge

Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy on the Right

Synopsis: Oscar-winning character actor Ben Johnson was never as well known as other stars, and yet for many industry insiders, he was the epitome of cowboy actors. Of Cherokee and Irish heritage, Johnson was born in Oklahoma and became a cowboy at age eleven. He grew up to become the only movie cowboy to Read More

Top Dog

Actors: Chuck Norris, Clyde Kusatsu, Michele Lamar Richards, Peter S. Moore, Erik Von Detten

Synopsis: In this action comedy, renegade cop Jake Wilder investigates the death of his old friend, Lou Swanson, another cop, who was killed while investigating the bombing of a San Diego housing project. To solve the murder and stop the bomber, Wilder teams up with Swanson's partner, a German Shepherd Read More

Ava's Magical Adventure

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Georg Stanford Brown, Patrick Dempsey

Synopsis: A girl and her best friend hit the road in this family friendly comedy drama -- only the girl's friend weighs in at 4,000 pounds! Eddie (Remy Ryan) is a ten-year-old girl (her name is short for "Edwina") who has trouble communicating with her mother Sarah (Priscilla Barnes) and doesn't care for Read More

Lone Tiger

King of the Hill

Actors: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen, Spalding Gray

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh, after the success of sex, lies, and videotape and the commercial failure of Kafka, pulls a rabbit out of his hat with this quiet and evocative recollection of a childhood lived in the Depression, based on A. E. Hotchner's memoir. Twelve-year-old Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) Read More

Digger

Actors: Adam Hann-Byrd, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Williams, Olympia Dukakis, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: This oddly unsettling PG-rated film stars Adam Hand-Byrd as Digger, a 12-year-old whose parents are going through serious domestic problems. To keep him out of the line of fire, Digger is sent to live with his crusty grandmother Olympia Dukakis in the Pacific Northwest. He has a great deal of Read More

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

Synopsis: This video offers a profile of filmmaker Bogdanovich's first great movie, The Last Picture Show, as Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and Sam Bottoms, Polly Platt, Randy Quaid and others reveal the impacts that the film had on their lives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Land of the Lost [TV Series]

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: Timothy Bottoms stars in this 1990s remake of the Sid and Marty Krofft children's program about a family trapped in a prehistoric world. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Texasville

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Annie Potts, Timothy Bottoms, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Texasville is Peter Bogdanovich's much-delayed sequel to The Last Picture Show. Adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel and told as a series of episodes, Texasville follows the characters from The Last Picture Show as they reunite in a small Texas town nearly 30 years after the end of the last movie Read More

Istanbul

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Twiggy, Robert Morley, Emma Kihlberg, Lena Endre

Synopsis: Istanbul, also released as Istanbul, Keep Your Eyes Open, is an old-fashioned, shallow, unbelievable thriller. Frank Collins (Timothy Bottoms) is an American reporter living in Sweden. Collins receives a video from his stepson's real father and goes to Istanbul, leaving his stepson at home, but Read More

Return from the River Kwai

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Michael Dante, Edward Fox, Chris Penn, George Takei, Nick Tate

Synopsis: This poorly received sequel to the classic 1957 movie The Bridge over the River Kwai, is also based on a true story, as told in the book by Joan & Clay Blair, Jr. This story begins where the previous one left off, with the blowing up of the marvelous bridge. Here, the Australian POWs are rounded Read More

Mio in the Land of Faraway

Actors: Nicholas Pickard, Christian Bale, Christopher Lee, Timothy Bottoms, Susannah York

Synopsis: Based on an Astrid Lindgren novel, this fantasy focuses on a Swedish teen drawn into a magical world to battle an evil knight. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Drifter

Actors: Kim Delaney, Timothy Bottoms, Al Shannon, Miles O'Keeffe, Anna Gray Garduno

Synopsis: Julia's (Kim Delaney) nightmare begins when she picks up hitchhiker Trey (Miles O'Keeffe) on a desolate road. Once back in the big city, Julia finds she is being stalked by the persistent Trey. Just why he is so obsessed is revealed in the film's climax. Meanwhile, Julia is also being followed by Read More

A Case of Honor

Synopsis: After escaping from a Vietnamese POW camp where they had suffered for five years, five American soldiers attempt to get out of the country before being spotted by Russian and Vietnamese troops in this tale of survival from Filipino filmmaker Eddie Romero. As the five escapees descend upon a remote Read More

Island Sons

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Island Sons stars real-life brothers Timothy, Joseph, Samuel and Benjamin Bottoms as fictional brothers named Tim, Joe, Sam and Ben (too bad there wasn't any Zeppo Bottoms). When their mogul father disappears in Hawaii in the aftermath of a scandal, the four brothers bury their own Read More

Invaders from Mars

Actors: Karen Black, Hunter Carson, Timothy Bottoms, Laraine Newman, James Karen

Synopsis: Invaders from Mars, horror-film director Tobe Hooper's remake of the classic 1950's science fiction film, directed by William Cameron Menzies, centers on a young boy named David (Hunter Carson) who tries to stop an invasion of his town as aliens take over the minds of his parents George (Timothy Bottoms Read More

In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro

Actors: John Rhys-Davies, Timothy Bottoms, Irene Miracle, Michele Carey, Leonard Trolley

Synopsis: This animal thriller at times verges on becoming a horror film, with gory scenes of mangled heads and torn limbs, but it is intended to be a serious tale of baboons gone berserk. The story takes place in a drought-ridden animal preserve in Kenya where ranger Jack Ringtree (Timothy Bottoms) advises Read More

Husbands, Wives, Money & Murder

Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

Actors: Raymond Burr, William Katt

Synopsis: Following the excellent ratings response to the 1985 "reunion" special Perry Mason Returns, producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove quickly assembled a second two-hour Mason TV movie in 1986. Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun finds Mason (Raymond Burr), now a judge, briefly stepping Read More

The Fantasist

Actors: Moira Harris, Timothy Bottoms, John Kavanagh, Mick Lally

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, some unknown man out there has a warped mind, a warped view of sex, and an urge to kill in a very specific way. An innocent yet seductive country woman named Patricia Telling (Moira Harris) moves into a new apartment building in Dublin, where a serial killer seems to Read More

What Waits Below

Actors: Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson, Anne Heywood

Synopsis: Secrets of the Phantom Caverns is a goofy fantasy filmed on the cheap by the ever-canny Don Sharp. The story involves a team of anthropologists and military men who busy themselves exploring a serpentine system of subterranean caves. They discover of lost race of Albinos, which wreaks havoc upon Read More

The Sea Serpent

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Taryn Power, Jared Martin, Ray Milland, Gerard Tichy

Synopsis: This fantasy-adventure is geared to the younger set. The saga begins when an American military plane is forced to explode an atomic bomb in the ocean, which brings up an ancient sea monster from his deep hibernation. When poor Capt. Barrios (Timothy Bottoms) is taking the watch on his ship, the Read More

Hambone and Hillie

Actors: Lillian Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Clark, O.J. Simpson, Robert Walker, Jr.

Synopsis: It is doubtful that while acting in D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation back in 1914, Lillian Gish ever dreamed that seven decades later she'd be co-starring with a cute dog in something called Hambone and Hillie. It all begins at a busy airport, where octogenarian Hillie (Gish) is accidentally Read More

The Census Taker

Actors: Garrett Morris, Greg Mullavey, Meredith Mac Rae, Austen Taylor, Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: This black comedy centers upon the exploits of a nosy census taker and the family he harasses. The couple he visits willingly let him in the house. Soon they find themselves interrogated with increasingly intrusive questions. They finally reach their limit, get angry, and shoot the census taker in Read More

Love Leads the Way

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: This made-for-Disney drama is the fact-based account of Morris Frank (Timothy Bottoms), who, during the 1930s, trained America's first seeing-eye dog. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Tin Man

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Deana Jurgens, John Phillip Law, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this provocative drama, an auto repairman compensates for his deafness with an ingenious computer which allows him to both speak and hear. He created the device himself and shows it to his speech therapist who enthusiastically suggests he try to get the machine manufactured. The mechanic goes Read More

East of Eden

Synopsis: The 1955 film version of John Steinbeck's East of Eden will always be popular because of the presence in the cast of James Dean. Even so, the film covered only a small portion of the original novel. For those Steinbeck completists who prefer a more thorough treatment, we submit for your approval Read More

The High Country

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Linda Purl, George Sims, Jim Lawrence, Bill Berry

Synopsis: A fugitive (Timothy Bottoms) and a handicapped woman (Linda Purl) on the run in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies fall in love in this adventure film from Harvey Hart. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Colleen Dewhurst, Kay Lenz

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Escape was inspired by the true story of Dwight Worker, an American imprisoned in Mexico for smuggling hashish. Given the country's stringent anti-drug laws, Worker's chances of release are slim to none (a situation similar to the protagonist's plight in Midnight Express). Against Read More

A Shining Season

Synopsis: Timothy Bottoms stars as the real-life John Baker in the made-for-TV A Shining Season. A champion University of New Mexico track athlete, the 25-year-old Baker is only momentarily halted when he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. His efforts to coach a losing girls' track team in his last months Read More

Hurricane

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Dayton Ka'ne

Synopsis: This film showed up on TV as Forbidden Paradise, but you can't fool us. It's really The Hurricane, producer Dino De Laurentiis' ill-advised remake of the 1938 Sam Goldwyn production of the same name. The story of the casual cruelties imposed by the white ruling class on the natives of the isle of Read More

The Gift of Love

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Marie Osmond

Synopsis: For her dramatic acting debut, singer Marie Osmond chose this sentimental adaptation of the venerable Yuletide short story The Gift of the Magi, previously filmed in 1952 as a segment of the omnibus feature film O. Henry's Full House. Set in turn-of-the-century New York, The Gift of Love casts Osmond Read More

The Other Side of the Mountain 2

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Timothy Bottoms, Nan Martin, Belinda Montgomery, Gretchen Corbett

Synopsis: This tear-jerking sequel chronicles the further struggles and triumphs of former Olympic-hopeful downhill skier Jill Kinmont who was paralyzed in 1956 after a mishap during a race. This story picks up after she recovers from the death of the daredevil pilot who helped her come to grips with her Read More

Rollercoaster

Actors: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an amusement-park roller coaster, killing several innocent revelers. After several other acts of terrorism, Bottoms (whose character is credited as Young Man) presents his demands to the Read More

Operation Daybreak

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Martin Shaw, Karel Curda, Joss Ackland, Nicola Pagett, Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Also titled The Price of Freedom, Operation Daybreak is a retelling of the terrible consequences attending the assassination of Nazi-occupation leader Richard Heydrich. When Heydrich puts all of Czechoslovakia under his thumb, a group of Czech expatriates parachute into their homeland to kill the Read More

A Small Town in Texas

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Susan George, Bo Hopkins, Art Hindle, John Karlen

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers action-revenge drama that plays like several other similarly-plotted, good ol' boy pulp flicks of its era, such as Billy Jack (1971) and Walking Tall (1973). Timothy Bottoms stars as Poke Jackson, a convict who's just been released from prison after a stint for drug Read More

The Moneychangers

Synopsis: "An unprecedented cast brings to life the blockbuster book"--or so said the add copy for The Moneychangers, a four-part TV miniseries based on Arthur Hailey's novel, first telecast Dec 4-19, 1976. The drama's starting point is a power play between two bank officers, played by Kirk Douglas and Christopher Plummer Read More

The Story of David

Synopsis: Filmed in Israel and Spain, the four-hour made-for-TV The Story of David stars Timothy Bottoms as the Biblical king. The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous romance with Bathsheba (Jane Seymour) is handled with taste and decorum. Also in Read More

The White Dawn

Actors: Akshooyooliak, Namonai Ashoona, Atcheelak, Higa Ipeelie, Oolipika Joamie, Meetook Mallee, Neelak, Seemee Nookiguak, Jacob Partridge, Sagiaktok, Aupalotak Simonee, Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett, Jr., Simonie Kopapik, Joanasie Salomonie

Synopsis: Director Philip Kaufman took his production of Eskimo life to actual locations in the Arctic Circle, making it only the third film in history (after Nanook of the North and