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.
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.
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.