Bill Thurman
Data de nascimento:
04/11/1920
Local de nascimento:
Texas, USA
Data de falecimento:
13/04/1995
Biografia
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
Filmes em que atuou
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Painted Hero (1997)- 5.40 ★Old Man Bolen
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In Broad Daylight (1991)- 5.71 ★Virgil Teague
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Innocent Prey (1989)- 4.00 ★Jim Gardner
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Hawken's Breed (1987)- 3.50 ★Jeb Kline
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Silverado (1985)- 7.00 ★Carter
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A Baía do Ódio (1985)- 5.90 ★Sheriff
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Stormin' Home (1985)- 0.00 ★Bailiff
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Mountaintop Motel Massacre (1983)- 4.33 ★Reverend Bill McWiley
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The Long Summer of George Adams (1982)- 10.00 ★Floyd
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O Maltrapilho (1981)- 5.20 ★Sheriff
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Tom Horn (1980)- 6.45 ★Ora Haley
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Liberdade nos Céus (1980)- 7.00 ★Pilot #1
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The Evictors (1979)- 6.50 ★Preacher Higgins
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The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978)- 6.00 ★Carl Evans
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Contatos Imediatos do Terceiro Grau (1977)- 7.40 ★Air Traffic
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Deixe Minha Sepultura Aberta (1977)- 3.90 ★Hitchhiker
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)- 6.80 ★
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Charge of the Model T's (1977)- 0.00 ★Sgt. Bond
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Creature from Black Lake (1976)- 5.10 ★Sheriff Billy Carter
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Slumber Party '57 (1976)- 5.50 ★Mr. Willis
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The Florida Connection (1976)- 2.00 ★Deke
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Louca Escapada (1974)- 6.58 ★Hunter
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Destemida e Audaciosa aka Isca Perigosa (1974)- 5.38 ★Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
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Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)- 6.80 ★Sam Bellington
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Ride in a Pink Car (1974)- 7.50 ★Barlow
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Fair Play (1972)- 0.00 ★Jed Bartrum
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Encounter with the Unknown (1972)- 4.00 ★Second Man
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A Última Sessão de Cinema (1971)- 7.66 ★Coach Popper
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A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970)- 4.00 ★Huddy
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In the Year 2889 (1969)- 2.80 ★Tim Henderson
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It's Alive! (1969)- 3.45 ★Greely / Monster
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Hell Raiders (1969)- 3.00 ★Tex
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Mars Needs Women (1968)- 4.00 ★Drunk on Pier
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Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968)- 2.40 ★Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde (1968)- 5.00 ★Policeman (uncredited)
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Zontar: The Thing from Venus (1967)- 3.98 ★Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
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The Eye Creatures (1967)- 2.93 ★Sergeant
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Night Fright (1967)- 2.80 ★Deputy Ben Whitfield
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Hip Hot and 21 (1967)- 2.60 ★Lt. Lang
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Spiked Heels and Black Nylons (1967)- 2.50 ★Abel
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The Black Cat (1966)- 5.20 ★Bartender
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High Yellow (1965)- 3.00 ★Major Bates
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Hot-Blooded Woman (1965)- 4.20 ★Railroad Tough
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1964)- 4.70 ★Witness