Hollywood actor Bo Hopkins, best known for his roles in films like “American Graffiti” and “Wild Bunch,” has died at the age of 80.
The star’s death at a California hospital on Saturday came several weeks after the actor had experienced a heart attack.The outlet reported that Hopkins died in Van Nuys, California at Valley Presbyterian Hospital.
One of the actor’s earliest film roles was playing Clarence “Crazy” Lee in the 1969 Sam Peckinpah film “The Wild Bunch.”In that film, he played the supporting character role of Joe “Little Joe” Young, a gang leader.got people out draggin’ and going up, and down streets cruisin’,” the actor said of the classic car film, speaking to Shock Cinema magazine.
“If I told you how many times people have come up to … me at these shows and told us that we’ve changed their lives, you wouldn’t believe it,” he said in the Shock Cinema interview.Share this article:
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