Joseph Bottoms

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Joseph Bottoms
Occupation Actor
Years active1973present
Known for
Spouse(s)
Delilah Andison
(m. 1980,divorced)
[1]
Dianna Louise Diels
(m. 1994;div. 2007)
Relatives

Joseph Bottoms is an American actor who won the 1975 Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year for his role in The Dove . He is also well known for his roles in the television mini-series Holocaust and Disney's The Black Hole .

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Career

Bottoms made his screen debut in the television movie Trouble Comes to Town. A year later he played the role of Robin Lee Graham, in The Dove , a real-life story about a teenager sailor's voyage around the world.

In the 1978 mini-series Holocaust , he starred as Rudi Weiss, a German Jew who joins the Jewish partisans. [2]

A year later, he appeared in The Black Hole , a science fiction film that grossed over $35 million at the U.S. box office. [3] In 1981, he made his Broadway debut in Fifth of July . The play made its Broadway debut at the New Apollo Theatre on November 5, 1980, directed by Mason with Jeff Daniels reprising the role of Jed, Christopher Reeve as Ken and Swoosie Kurtz as Gwen.

In 1984, he starred with Kirstie Alley in Blind Date . From 1985 to 1986, he was a series regular on Santa Barbara . In 1990, he began a guest arc on the Canadian television series Street Legal . In 1991, he played the second Cal Winters in Days of Our Lives . [4] In 1998 he was cast as a series regular in The Net .

His latest screen appearance was in 1999 in the TV series V.I.P. .

Personal life

Bottoms is the brother of actors Timothy Bottoms, Sam Bottoms, and Ben Bottoms. [5] He has been married twice and twice divorced. [1] Since 1999, he has been running the Bottoms Art Galleries in Santa Barbara that include his father's sculptures. [6] [7]

Filmography

Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1974 The Dove Robin Lee Graham Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor
1976 Crime and Passion Larry
1977 High Rolling Texas
1978 Holocaust Rudi Weiss
1979 The Black Hole Lieutenant Charlie Pizer
1980 Cloud Dancer Tom Loomis
1981 King of the Mountain Buddy
1981 Surfacing Joe
1983 The Sins of Dorian Gray Stuart Vane
1984 Blind Date Jonathan Ratcliff
1988 Open House Dr. David Kelley
1988 Born to Race Al Pagura
1991 Inner Sanctum Baxter Reed
1992 Liar's Edge Dave Kirkpatrick
1992Treacherous CrossingKenneth Gates
1997 Snide and Prejudice Therapist Himmler
1998 Joseph's Gift Simon Keller
2019Cicada SongKen
Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1973Trouble Comes to TownBilly KeithTV movie
1973 Winesburg, Ohio George WillardTV movie
1974Unwed FatherPeterTV movie
1976 Stalk the Wild Child Cal, as a young manTV movie
1978 Family Seth Oliver1 episode; "A Friend of the Family's"
1978 Holocaust Rudi WeissTV mini-series
1978Return EngagementSteward AndermanTV movie
1979 Disneyland Major Effects1 episode; "Major Effects"
1981The Intruder WithinScottTV movie; Drillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they have accidentally brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature.
1982 Side by Side: The True Story of the Osmond Family George Osmond TV movie
1983 I Married Wyatt Earp The DriverTV movie
1983WishmanDr. Alex MacGregorTV movie
1984 Celebrity Mack CrawfordTV mini-series
1984 Time Bomb Daniel 'Dan' PicardTV movie
1985 Murder, She Wrote Mickey Shannon1 episode; "Murder at the Oasis"
1985 Braker Eddie KelsoTV movie
1985–1986 Santa Barbara Kirk CranstonSeries regular
1987 Shades of Love: Make Mine Chartreuse SteveTV movie
1987Island SonsJoe FaradayTV movie
1987 CBS Summer Playhouse Dr. Martin Wilde1 episode; "Doctors Wilde"
1988Cop KillerLewisTV movie
1988 The Highwayman Bonham1 episode; "Till Death Duel us Apart"
1990 CBS Schoolbreak Special Jack Kingston1 episode; "Maggie's Secret"
1990FlairMatt LeeTV mini-series
1990–1991 Street Legal Peter Garland5 episodes
1991 Road to Avonlea Edwin Clark1 episode; "May the Best Man Win"
1991 Days of Our Lives Carl Winters 2
1992 Gunsmoke: To the Last Man Tommy GrahamTV movie
1992 The Young Riders 1 episode; "The Road Not Taken"
1997 Walker, Texas Ranger Tom Wilson2 episodes; "Last of a Breed: Part 1", "Last of a Breed: Part 2"
1998–1999 The Net Shawn TrelawneySeries regular
1999 Profiler Bobby O'Hara1 episode; "Seduction"
1999 V.I.P. 1 episode; "Stop or Val's Mom Will Shoot"
Theatre
YearTitleRoleNotes
1981 Fifth of July Ken

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References

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