By IANS
LOS ANGELES: Veteran Hollywood actor Bo Hopkins, who is understood for his work in movies reminiscent of ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘The Getaway’, ‘American Graffiti’ and ‘The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing’, handed away on the age of 80 at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys following a coronary heart assault, stories ‘Deadline’.
Born in 1942 in Greenville, South Carolina, he appeared in additional than 100 movie and tv roles in a profession that spanned greater than 5 a long time. As per aDeadline’, he picked up the nickname ‘Bo’ because of a personality of the identical title he performed in Bus Stop, his first off-Broadway play.
His tv appearances included ‘The Phyllis Diller Show’, ‘The Virginian’, ‘Gunsmoke’, ‘The Wild Wild West’ and ‘The Andy Griffith Show’. His first shot at a usually scheduled TV collection got here in 1973 in medical drama ‘Doc Elliott’, which premiered for only one season.
From there, his resume additionally lists TV miniseries ‘Aspen and Beggerman Thief’, ‘Charlie’s Angels’, ‘Fantasy Island’, ‘The A-Team’, ‘Hotel’, ‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’, ‘The Fall Guy’, ‘Matlock’ and ‘Murder, She Wrote’.
Hopkins is survived by his spouse Sian and son Matthew.
