I have
recently caught up on From Crisis To Crisis:
A Superman Podcast, and I’m catching up on Views From The
Longbox, and Michael Bailey has mentioned William Hootkins
a few times for playing roles in many of geekdom’s biggest franchises. Here’s a breakdown of them:
1977 – Star Wars
 |
| Porkins - The ill-fated Red 6 |
1980 – Flash Gordon
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| Munson - Zarkov's Assistant |
1981 – Raiders of the Lost Ark
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| Major Eaton - Confident in the country's "Top Men" |
1987
– Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
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| Harry Howler – The guy that executes Luthor’s plans to create Nuclear Man |
1989 –
Batman
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| Lt. Eckhardt – The corrupt cop that gets what he deserves |
So what do we have here? George
Lucas’ biggest success story, a huge Spielberg/Lucas collaboration, a cult
classic (that my wife can’t stand for some reason), the movie that relaunched
one of DC’s iconic figures, and … well we’ll skip that last one, shall we? All of these movies have big names in them
and most of those cross over into other franchises. And we’re not even talking about some of the
voice or TV work the man did.
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