Robert Gottlieb
June, 1974
Most successful actors seem to tell a common story of their beginnings: They hitchhiked to one of the coasts, spent eight years pleading for bit parts and washing dishes, then some crusty producer signed them for a three-word walk-on and audiences the world over saw their magnetism. ("Forget the star; who was that guy playing the pizza delivery boy?") Well, 22-year-old Timothy Bottoms didn't start quite that way. In 1970, he was graduated from high school in Santa Barbara, California,...
