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‘American Graffiti’ actor Bo Hopkins dies at 80

By way of IANS

LOS ANGELES: Veteran Hollywood actor Bo Hopkins, who is understood for his paintings in motion pictures similar to ‘The Wild Bunch’, ‘The Getaway’, ‘American Graffiti’ and ‘The Guy Who Liked Cat Dancing’, gave up the ghost on the age of 80 at Valley Presbyterian Health center in Van Nuys following a middle assault, experiences ‘Cut-off date’.

Born in 1942 in Greenville, South Carolina, he seemed in additional than 100 movie and tv roles in a profession that spanned greater than 5 many years. As in keeping with aDeadline’, he picked up the nickname ‘Bo’ because of a personality of the similar title he performed in Bus Prevent, his first off-Broadway play.

His tv appearances incorporated ‘The Phyllis Diller Display’, ‘The Virginian’, ‘Gunsmoke’, ‘The Wild Wild West’ and ‘The Andy Griffith Display’. His first shot at a continuously scheduled TV collection got here in 1973 in scientific drama ‘Document Elliott’, which premiered for only one season.

From there, his resume additionally lists TV miniseries ‘Aspen and Beggerman Thief’, ‘Charlie’s Angels’, ‘Fable Island’, ‘The A-Workforce’, ‘Lodge’, ‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’, ‘The Fall Man’, ‘Matlock’ and ‘Homicide, She Wrote’.

Hopkins is survived through his spouse Sian and son Matthew.