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Joseph Bottoms

Highest Rated: 41% The Black Hole (1979)

Lowest Rated: 41% The Black Hole (1979)

Birthday: Apr 22, 1954

Birthplace: Santa Barbara, California, USA

Joseph Bottoms is one of four sons of a sculptor, all of whom went into acting. Straight out of high school, Bottoms was cast in the lead role of the 1974 globe-straddling saga "The Dove," based on the real-life story of a lone sailor's five-year voyage around the world. Under the guidance of producer Gregory Peck, Bottoms portrayed the character's struggles with both nature and his own demons. Bottoms' work earned him a Golden Globe Award, but his next great dramatic turn was on television, where he appeared in the legendary 1978 mini-series " Holocaust" as a Jewish resistance fighter. That same year, Bottoms performed opposite Elizabeth Taylor in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of "Return Engagement." Taylor herself had requested him for the role of the new student opposite her worldly-wise college professor. Bottoms again showed his passion for serious, character-based drama in 1981, when he asked his brother Timothy if he could replace him in the New York stage production of Langford Wilson's meditation on post-Vietnam-era healing, "The Fifth of July." It was Joseph Bottoms' Broadway debut. In the years that followed, Bottoms' career was mostly in television, from recurring roles in prime-time dramas like "Street Legal " to a stint on the daytime soap Santa Barbara. "Island Sons," a 1987 TV movie set in Hawaii, proved to be the only time that siblings Joseph Bottoms, Timothy Bottoms, Sam Bottoms and Ben Bottoms all worked together.

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Highest rated movies

41% 46% The Black Hole
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Stalk the Wild Child
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Police Story: Cop Killers
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30% Snide & Prejudice
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An Ace Up My Sleeve
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Trouble Comes to Town
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Unwed Father
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Make Mine Chartreuse
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0% Liar's Edge
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Crime and Passion
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 90% Cicada Song Kurt (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet King Eternal General / Bandit / Space Bandit (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Joseph's Gift Simon Keller (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 30% Snide & Prejudice Therapist Himmler (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Treacherous Crossing Kenneth Gates (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 16% Inner Sanctum Baxter Reed (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 0% Liar's Edge Dave Kirkpatrick (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Make Mine Chartreuse Steve (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 60% Born to Race Al Pagura (Character) $19.5K 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Police Story: Cop Killers Lewis (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet 12% Open House Dr. David Kelley (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Island Sons Joe Faraday (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Braker Eddie Kelso (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 43% Blind Date Jonathon Ratcliff (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Time Bomb Daniel 'Dan' Picard (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 86% The Sins of Dorian Gray Stuart Vane (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family George Osmond (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet 44% King of the Mountain Buddy (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 20% The Intruder Within Scott (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Surfacing Joe (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cloud Dancer Tom Loomis (Character) - 1980
41% 46% The Black Hole Lieutenant Charles Pizer (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Return Engagement Stewart Anderman (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet High Rolling Texas (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 29% High Rolling in a Hot Corvette Texas (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Crime and Passion Larry (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stalk the Wild Child Cal (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet An Ace Up My Sleeve Larry (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unwed Father Peter (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 77% The Dove Robin Lee Graham (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trouble Comes to Town Billy Keith (Character) - 1972

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet V.I.P. Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
29% No Score Yet The Net Trelawney (Character) 1998-1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Santa Barbara Kirk Cranston (Character) 1984-1993
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Mickey Shannon (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Disney's Wonderful World Major Effects (Character) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Holocaust Rudi Weiss (Character) 1978