Bo Hopkins Movies
Bo Hopkins has spent most of his career playing character roles, but he occasionally gets leading roles. Tall, light-haired, and possessing a distinctive drawl, he made his film debut in The Thousand Plane Raid (1969) following studies with drama instructor Uta Hagen in New York and training at the Desilu Playhouse school in Hollywood. He next appeared in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild... (read more) Bunch (1969). Hopkins went on to work with the director in two more films, including The Getaway (1972). Hopkins specializes in action features and Westerns and is often cast as a redneck. Some of his notable leading roles include that of a gunfighter whose best friend of 30 years turns out to be a woman in The Ballad of Little Joe (1993). Hopkins also appears frequently on television in films and as a series guest star. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Cheyenne Warrior
R 1994
This made-for-TV western stars Kelly Preston as Rebecca Carver, who is travelling west with her husband Matthew (Charles Powell), trying to outrun the draft for the Civil...
Radioland Murders
PG 1994
A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson...
The Ballad of Little Jo
R 1993
The Ballad of Little Jo is based on a true story -- several true stories, in fact. Suzy Amis plays demure young Josephine Monagan, who in 1866 is run out of her home town...
Inside Monkey Zetterland
R 1993
Actor Steven Antin wrote the screenplay, and U.S.C. film professor Jefery Levy directed this self-absorbed trifle about a self-absorbed screenwriter and his nutty family and...
Wolf Mountain
PG 1993
Craig Clyde, the filmmaker behind The Long Road Home, helms another family adventure with this story of three rambunctious youngsters who are accidentally kidnapped by...
Blood Ties
R 1993
This passable made-for-cable-TV vampire opus explores the clever concept of a Transylvanian immigrant community in the western United States. Young Cody (Jason London) is...
President's Target
1993
In this actioner, a vengeful CIA agent swears that he will bring the mysterious South American drug lords who massacred his colleagues to justice during one of their assignments....
The Legend of Wolf Mountain
PG 1992
This family adventure film focuses on the struggles of a trio of schoolchildren (Nicole Lund, Matthew Lewis and Jonathan Best) taken hostage by a pair of escaped...
Murder, She Wrote: The Monte Carlo Murders
1992
Now it's off to Monte Carlo, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) pays a visit to her old friend, the owner of a luxury hotel.. Unfortunately, the hotel proves to be the final...
Center of the Web
R 1992
In this thriller that begins with a case of mistaken identity, a man is abducted and thrown into a mysterious car; he is assumed to be a professional assassin--who happens to be...
Black Creek
1991
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The Mark of the Beast
1990
Sheila Cann plays twin sisters in the tension-ridden Mark of the Beast. When one of the twins dies in a ritual killing, the other, an anthropologist, seeks revenge. This she...
Big Bad John
PG13 1990
Nearly three decades after climbing the top-ten charts with his ballad "Big Bad John", Jimmy Dean stars in a film version of the song. Dean doesn't play the title character,...
Final Alliance
R 1989
When Will Colton (David Hasselhoff) journeys back to his home town, he is shocked to discover that a gang of motorcycle thugs have killed his family and taken over. ~ Iotis...
The Bounty Hunter
R 1989
The title is the story so far as Bounty Hunter is concerned. Doubling as star and director, Robert Ginty plays a soldier of fortune who hires on to catch a killer. Ginty...
Trapper County War
R 1989
In this grim actioner, two city dudes head out for the country and find themselves involved in a feud when one of them falls in love with a country boy's gal. The jealous lover...
Nightmare at Noon
R 1988
Exposure to a chemically-contaminated water supply turns scientists into raving lunatics who begin terrorizing a tiny desert burg in this violent actioner. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
Down the Long Hills
1986
Barry Bostwick is top-billed in the made-for-TV western Down the Long Hills, but the largest role in the film goes to Thomas Wilson Brown, playing Bostwick's teenaged...
Houston: The Legend of Texas
1986
Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing to forget the Alamo (as if...
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
1986
Smoky Mountain Christmas is the sort of fare that always seems to pop up exclusively during the Yuletide season: an original made-for-TV musical fantasy. Dolly Parton plays...