Bill Thurman
- Туған күні:
- 1920-11-04
- Қайтыс болған күні:
- 1995-04-13
- Туған жері:
- Texas, USA
Өмірбаяны
Character actor Bill Thurman was born on November 4, 1920 in Texas. A large, rugged, stocky man with a hard, lined, puffy face, a deep, twangy, amicable voice, a strong, bulky build and a charmingly low-key and down-to-earth unaffected natural screen presence, Thurman often portrayed police officers and assorted scruffy redneck types in a huge number of entertainingly cheap'n'cheesy Southern-fried fright flicks and delightfully down'n'dirty drive-in fare made throughout the 60s and 70s. Bill frequently acted in features for legendary Grade Z low-budget independent filmmaker Larry Buchanan; said movies include "The Eye Creatures," "High Yellow," "Zontar the Thing from Venus," "Mars Needs Women," "Curse of the Swamp Creature," "In the Year 2889," the especially atrocious "It's Alive!," and "A Bullet for Pretty Boy." Moreover, Thurman had bit parts in two Steven Spielberg films: he's a hillbilly hunter in "The Sugerland Express" and an air traffic controller in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Bill's other memorable roles include the abusive Coach Popper in Peter Bogdanovich's magnificent "The Last Picture Show," a doomed hitchhiker in "Keep My Grave Open," a corrupt sheriff in the Claudia Jennings exploitation classic "'Gatorbait," a mean small town deputy in "Ride in A Pink Car," a more amiable sheriff in the fantastic Bigfoot winner "Creature from Black Lake," Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith's father in "Slumber Party '57," a priest in "The Evictors," and the boozy, dissolute Reverend Bill McWiley in the enjoyably crummy "Mountaintop Motel Massacre." Bill Thurman died in Dallas, Texas on April 13, 1995. - IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders
Фильмографиясы
Painted Hero
1997
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Old Man Bolen
В озере дневного света
1991
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Virgil Teague
Моя новая машина
1988
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Bus Driver
Hawken's Breed
1987
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Jeb Kline
Сильверадо
1985
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Carter
Stormin' Home
1985
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Bailiff
Залив Аламо
1985
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Sheriff
Innocent Prey
1984
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Jim Gardner
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
1983
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Reverend Bill McWiley
The Long Summer of George Adams
1982
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Floyd
Бродяга
1981
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Sheriff
Skyward
1980
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Pilot #1
Том Хорн
1980
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Ora Haley
The Sky Trap
1979
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Sheriff
The Evictors
1979
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Preacher Higgins
The Beasts Are on the Streets
1978
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Carl Evans
Keep My Grave Open
1977
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Hitchhiker
Близкие контакты третьей степени
1977
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Air Traffic
Charge of the Model T's
1977
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Sgt. Bond
Slumber Party '57
1976
TMDb 4.4 / 10
Mr. Willis
Существо из Черного озера
1976
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Sheriff Billy Carter
The Florida Connection
1975
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Deke
'Gator Bait
1974
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
Where the Red Fern Grows
1974
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Sam Bellington
Ride in a Pink Car
1974
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Barlow
Шугарлендский экспресс
1974
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Hunter
The Pickle Goes in the Middle
1973
Mr. Stanovich
Encounter with the Unknown
1972
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Second Man
Fair Play
1972
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Jed Bartrum
Последний киносеанс
1971
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Coach Popper
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
1970
TMDb 4.1 / 10
Huddy
It's Alive!
1969
TMDb 3.8 / 10
Greely / Monster
Hell Raiders
1969
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Tex
In the Year 2889
1969
TMDb 3.2 / 10
Tim Henderson
Mars Needs Women
1968
TMDb 3.9 / 10
Drunk on Pier
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Policeman (uncredited)
Curse of the Swamp Creature
1968
TMDb 2.7 / 10
Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
Zontar: The Thing from Venus
1967
TMDb 4.2 / 10
Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
Night Fright
1967
TMDb 3.1 / 10
Deputy Ben Whitfield
The Eye Creatures
1967
TMDb 3.1 / 10
Sergeant
Hip Hot and 21
1967
TMDb 3.7 / 10
Lt. Lang
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
1967
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Abel
Sam
1967
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Black Cat
1966
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Bartender
Hot Blooded Woman
1965
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Railroad Tough
High Yellow
1965
TMDb 3.8 / 10
Major Bates
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1964
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Witness