Bill Thurman
Actor/Actriz
47
Movies
2
TV Shows
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
As Actor/Actress
Dallas
Phil Bradley
Encuentros Cercanos del Tercer Tipo
Air Traffic
Silverado
Carter
La última película
Coach Popper
The Long Hot Summer
Houstin
Loca evasion
Hunter
Tom Horn
Ora Haley
Skyward
Pilot #1
Innocent Prey
Jim Gardner
Marte necesita mujeres
Drunk on Pier
It Takes Two
Bus Driver
Raggedy Man
Sheriff
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
Abel
'Gator Bait
Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
Creature from Black Lake
Sheriff Billy Carter
In Broad Daylight
Virgil Teague
The Evictors
Preacher Higgins
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sam Bellington
Bahía Alamo
Sheriff
Hawken's Breed
Jeb Kline
El monstruo del pantano
Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
Slumber Party '57
Mr. Willis
The Sky Trap
Sheriff
Painted Hero
Old Man Bolen
Hell Raiders
Tex
Zontar, el monstruo de Venus
Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
The Black Cat
Bartender
The Florida Connection
Deke
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Witness
The Eye Creatures
Sergeant