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Bill Thurman‌

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1920-11-04

Popularity

star5.8

Bill Thurman

Texas, USA

Bill Thurman

Texas, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1920-11-04

Popularity

star5.8

Biography

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

Movie Credits

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind‌
star7.4
calendar 1977

A Bullet for Pretty Boy

A Bullet for Pretty Boy‌
star4.0
calendar 1970

The Sugarland Express

The Sugarland Express‌
star6.6
calendar 1974

Silverado

Silverado‌
star7.0
calendar 1985

Mars Needs Women

Mars Needs Women‌
star3.9
calendar 1968

The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show‌
star7.6
calendar 1971

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Mountaintop Motel Massacre‌
star4.4
calendar 1983

Zontar: The Thing from Venus

Zontar: The Thing from Venus‌
star4.0
calendar 1967

Creature from Black Lake

Creature from Black Lake‌
star5.1
calendar 1976

The Eye Creatures

The Eye Creatures‌
star2.9
calendar 1967

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald‌
star4.7
calendar 1964

In the Year 2889

In the Year 2889‌
star2.8
calendar 1969

Curse of the Swamp Creature

Curse of the Swamp Creature‌
star2.4
calendar 1968

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde‌
star5.0
calendar 1968

It's Alive

It's Alive‌
star3.4
calendar 1969

'Gator Bait

'Gator Bait‌
star5.3
calendar 1974

The Evictors

The Evictors‌
star6.5
calendar 1979

Night Fright

Night Fright‌
star2.8
calendar 1967

Painted Hero

Painted Hero‌
star5.4
calendar 1997

Hell Raiders

Hell Raiders‌
star3.0
calendar 1969

Skyward

Skyward‌
star7.0
calendar 1980

High Yellow

High Yellow‌
star3.0
calendar 1965

In Broad Daylight

In Broad Daylight‌
star5.7
calendar 1991

Stormin' Home

Stormin' Home‌
star0.0
calendar 1985

Hot-Blooded Woman

Hot-Blooded Woman‌
star4.2
calendar 1965

Slumber Party '57

Slumber Party '57‌
star5.5
calendar 1976

Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows‌
star6.8
calendar 1974

Charge of the Model T's

Charge of the Model T's‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

Ride in a Pink Car

Ride in a Pink Car‌
star7.5
calendar 1974

Raggedy Man

Raggedy Man‌
star5.2
calendar 1981

The Florida Connection

The Florida Connection‌
star2.0
calendar 1975

Fair Play

Fair Play‌
star0.0
calendar 1972

The Black Cat

The Black Cat‌
star5.2
calendar 1966

Tom Horn

Tom Horn‌
star6.4
calendar 1980

Innocent Prey

Innocent Prey‌
star4.0
calendar 1989

The Beasts Are on the Streets

The Beasts Are on the Streets‌
star6.0
calendar 1978

Keep My Grave Open

Keep My Grave Open‌
star3.9
calendar 1977

Spiked Heels and Black Nylons

Spiked Heels and Black Nylons‌
star2.5
calendar 1967

Hip Hot and 21

Hip Hot and 21‌
star2.6
calendar 1967

The Long Summer of George Adams

The Long Summer of George Adams‌
star10.0
calendar 1982

Sam

Sam‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

Hawken's Breed

Hawken's Breed‌
star3.5
calendar 1987

Encounter with the Unknown

Encounter with the Unknown‌
star4.0
calendar 1972

Alamo Bay

Alamo Bay‌
star5.9
calendar 1985

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald‌
star6.8
calendar 1977

The Sky Trap

The Sky Trap‌
star0.0
calendar 1979

Tv Credits

The Long Hot Summer

The Long Hot Summer‌
star5.4
calendar 1985

Dallas

Dallas‌
star6.7
calendar 1978