William Hope (actor)

William Hope
William Hope
Born	March 2, 1955; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Other names	Bill Hope
Occupation	Actor, voice artist
Years active	1981–present

William "Bill" Hope (born March 2, 1955) is a Canadian stage, film, television and voice actor.

Career

Most of Hope's stage work has been leading roles in a wide variety of regional, touring and West End theatres in England.

Early on, he turned down a major role in Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket for a lead role in James Cameron's Aliens (1986) as Lt. Gorman, for which he began to receive recognition.[1] Soon after he appeared as Kyle MacRae in the horror film Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988), the sequel to Clive Barker's Hellraiser (1987).

After Hellbound, Hope went on to a number of theatrical films while working a lot on stage and in radio drama. Seen in parts in Shining Through (1992) and The Saint (1997), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and XXX (2002). He co-starred in two Wesley Snipes' action epics The Marksman (2005) and The Detonator (2006) and as the villain in Steven Seagal's action movie Submerged (2005).

Recently seen on TV as Harry Ramos in the award winning TV docudrama 9/11: The Twin Towers (2007), and as the President of Lehman Brothers in The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009) starring James Cromwell, in theatrical releases he has been seen opposite Woody Harrelson in The Walker (2007), Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes (2009),[2] and The Whistleblower (2010) with Rachel Weisz and Legacy with Idris Elba. His most recent television work included playing Matt LeBlanc's agent in Episodes (2011). He was also in Luc Besson's The Lady (2012) about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi and in 2011 he guest-starred in the BBC's final series of Spooks (2002) and alongside Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows (2012).

Since 2009, he has been heard providing voices for Edward, Toby, Whiff, Rocky and Farmer McColl in the US dub and also Bert of the Thomas & Friends children's TV and DVD series. He also returned to the horror genre, working in the Solar Film's experimental Dark Floors, released in Europe in 2008. He is regularly heard on BBC Radio and is part of the BBC "Broken News" cast. He appeared in a book tour with Tim Parfitt, his brother-in-law.[3]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	Thomas and Friends: Big World Big Adventures!	Edward and Toby	Film; Supporting Role; US voice
2018	The Catcher Was a Spy	John Kieran	Film; post-production
2017	Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor	Edward and Toby	Film; Supporting Role; US voice
2016	Tokyo Trial	John Patrick Higgins
	Slumber	Malcolm	In production
	Thomas & Friends: The Great Race	Edward and the Dock Manager	Film; Supporting Role; US voice
2015	Thomas & Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure	Edward and Toby	Film; Supporting Role; US voice
	Thunderbirds Are Go	Professor Callaway	Voice; 1 episode
	Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins	Edward	Film; Main Role; US voice
2014	Thomas & Friends: Tale of the Brave	Edward and the Dock Manager	Film; Supporting Role; US voice
2013–2014	Rãmâi cu mine	Tony	Five episodes
2013	Agatha Christie's Marple	Lippincott	One Episode
	Thomas & Friends: King of the Railway	Edward and Toby	Film; Supporting Role; US voice
	Walking with the Enemy	Carl Lutz
	Burton & Taylor	John Cullum
2012	Thomas & Friends: Blue Mountain Mystery	Edward, Toby and Rocky	Film; US voice
	Gladiators of Rome	Fabrickus	English voice
	Dark Shadows	Sheriff Bill of Collinsport
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger	SHIELD Lieutenant	Film
	Spooks	Jim Coaver	Season 10
	The Lady	James Baker
	Episodes	Matt's Agent	1 episode
	Thomas & Friends: Day of the Diesels	Edward, Toby and Rocky	Film; US voice
	Spiders 3D	Col. Jenkins
	Cold Fusion	Willis
2010	The Whistleblower	John Blakely
	Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue	Edward, Toby, Whiff, Bash, Rocky and the Dock Manager	Film; US voice
	The Glass House	Charles Lutz
	Legacy	Mark Star
2009	Sherlock Holmes	American Ambassador Standish
2009	Thomas & Friends: Hero of the Rails	Edward, Toby, Rocky and the Duke of Boxford	Film; US voice
2009–present	Thomas & Friends	Edward, Toby, Whiff, Bert (Season 16 onwards; US/UK), Bash, Rocky, Stephen Hatt, Farmer McColl, The Duke of Boxford, The Dock Manager, The Maithwaite Stationmaster (Double Trouble and Wonky Whistle only) and The Knapford Stationmaster (Season 17 onwards)	Main/Recurring Roles; US;UK
2008	Dark Floors	Jon
2007	Finding Rin Tin Tin	Major Snickens
	Trade Routes	Richter
	The Walker	Mungo Tenant
2006	9/11: The Twin Towers	Harry Ramos
2006	The Detonator	Michael Shepard
2005	The Marksman	Jonathan Tensor
2005	Submerged	Agent Fletcher
2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	American Broadcaster
2003	Labyrinth	Robert Fisk
2003	Cockroach Blue	Flush Head
2002	XXX	Agent Roger Donnan
2001	Never Say Never Mind: The Swedish Bikini Team	Bill Mason
2000	Obedience	Dr. Norton
1997	The Saint	State Department Official
1993	Dropping the Baby	Harry
1992	Shining Through	Kernohan
1988	Hellbound: Hellraiser II	Kyle MacRae
1987	Going Home	Lieutenant Anson
1986	Aliens	Lieutenant Gorman
1983	The Lords of Discipline	Senior
1982	Poltergeist	Dana's Boyfriend In Car	(cameo; uncredited)
1982	Scanners	Hazmat Worker	(uncredited)

Self

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (2007) – Charles Wilbour
Superior Firepower: The Making of 'Aliens (2003) (V) – Himself
McLibel (1998) – Guardian Newspaper Representative

Video games

Hitman: Blood Money (2006) (VG) (voice) – Guard At Metal Detector (uncredited)
Kameo: Elements of Power (2005) (VG) (voice) – Halis (as Bill Hope)
Ultimate Spider-Man (2005) (VG) (voice) – Ultimate Carnage Vocal-Effects (uncredited)
Aliens vs. Predator (2010) (VG) (voice) – Dr. Groves/Predator/Alien
Driver: San Francisco (2012) (VG) (voice) –
Alien: Isolation (2014) (VG) (voice) – Marshal Waits
Resident Evil 3 (2020) (VG) (voice and motion capture) – Mikhail Victor, Dr. Nathaniel Bard

gollark: And computing is a horrible mess where nobody agrees on lots of things, the industry is stuck decades behind research, and everything has awful security holes.

gollark: Or something something nontrivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function.

gollark: Chemistry/physics/maths/CS etc. are even more broadly defined and complex though, bad examples.

gollark: Yes, knowledge has improved in an absolute sense but apparently vaccine trials are still only successful 1/3 of the time generally.

gollark: You can get it *later*, probably.

References

Grant, Barry Keith (1996). The dread of difference: gender and the horror film. University of Texas Press. p. 186. ISBN 0-292-72794-1.
"Movie Review - Sherlock Holmes". RTÉ. 21 December 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
We're All Neighbors website. Accessed May 10, 2011.

External links

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[1] Grant, Barry Keith (1996). The dread of difference: gender and the horror film. University of Texas Press. p. 186. ISBN 0-292-72794-1.

[2] "Movie Review - Sherlock Holmes". RTÉ. 21 December 2009. Retrieved 9 May 2011.

[3] We're All Neighbors website. Accessed May 10, 2011.