Famed 1970s supporting actor and Sam Peckinpah’s good luck charm Bo Hopkins has died at the age of 84. Hopkins died in hospital from a stroke nineteen days after suffering a heart attack.
Hopkins appeared in more than one hundred film and TV roles across four decades, racking up a list of some iconic American films of the 1970s including “The Wild Bunch,” “American Graffiti,” “Midnight Express,” “The Getaway,” “Posse,” “The Day of the Locust,” “White Lightning” and “The Killer Elite”. Film work continued through the 80s and 90s including “adioland Murders,” “U Turn,” “Phantoms,” “From Dusk to Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money,” “The Newton Boys,” and “Cowboy Up”.
He had a major role on the first season of the original “Dynasty,” a memorable arc on “The Rockford Files” along with countless guest spots on shows from the 70s to the late 90s including “Gunsmoke,” “The Wild Wild West,” “The Mod Squad,” “Bonanza,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Fantasy Island,” “The A-Team,” “Murder She Wrote,” “Scarecrow and Mrs. King” and “Matlock”.
Having seemingly retired from acting since 2003, Hopkins made a brief return in 2020 in the role of Papaw Vince in Ron Howard’s “Hillbilly Elegy”.
Source: THR