Bill Thurman
Actor/Actriz
47
Películas
2
Series
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
Como Actor/Actriz
Dallas
Phil Bradley
Encuentros Cercanos del Tercer Tipo
Air Traffic
Silverado
Carter
La última película
Coach Popper
Loca evasion
Hunter
The Long Hot Summer
Houstin
Skyward
Pilot #1
Marte necesita mujeres
Drunk on Pier
Tom Horn
Ora Haley
Raggedy Man
Sheriff
It Takes Two
Bus Driver
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sam Bellington
Creature from Black Lake
Sheriff Billy Carter
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
Abel
Hawken's Breed
Jeb Kline
Bahía Alamo
Sheriff
In Broad Daylight
Virgil Teague
Innocent Prey
Jim Gardner
The Black Cat
Bartender
'Gator Bait
Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
El monstruo del pantano
Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
Painted Hero
Old Man Bolen
Keep My Grave Open
Hitchhiker
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
Huddy
The Evictors
Preacher Higgins
The Sky Trap
Sheriff
The Eye Creatures
Sergeant
Hell Raiders
Tex
In the Year 2889
Tim Henderson
Zontar, el monstruo de Venus
Sheriff Brad Crenshaw