Per Variety: “Bo Hopkins, the actor who has appeared in classics like ‘American Graffiti,’ ‘The Wild Bunch,’ ‘Midnight Express’ and ‘The Getaway,’ died Friday. He was 80 years old.”
Weirdly, the facts surrounding his demise are in dispute. The Hollywood Reporter says he died Saturday, and was 84 years old. Take your pick. Wikipedia chose the “Saturday at 84” option.
I had more or less forgotten him, and the images from these articles reminded me of how much he resembled Alexander Skarsgård.
He also dated Jean Simmons for a while
I’ll always remember him for his murderous psycho characters in The Fifth Floor and The Wild Bunch, and particularly the Hawaii 5-0 episode ‘One Big Happy Family’, in which he along with Slim Pickens played two of the most cold-blooded, twisted killers in TV history.
Not gonna lie. I was thinking the same thing. I know him most for playing psychotic characters. Unlawful Entry actually comes to mind the most.