Personal Info
Known Credits
46
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1920-11-04 (105 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Texas, USA
Also Known For
Bill Thurman
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 fre ...
Acting
1997 --
Painted Hero
| Old Man Bolen
1991 --
In Broad Daylight
| Virgil Teague
1987 --
Hawken's Breed
| Jeb Kline
1985 --
Silverado
| Carter
1985 --
Stormin' Home
| Bailiff
1985 --
Alamo Bay
| Sheriff
1984 --
Innocent Prey
| Jim Gardner
1983 --
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
| Reverend Bill McWiley
1982 --
The Long Summer of George Adams
| Floyd
1981 --
Raggedy Man
| Sheriff
1980 --
Skyward
| Pilot #1
1980 --
Tom Horn
| Ora Haley
1979 --
The Sky Trap
| Sheriff
1979 --
The Evictors
| Preacher Higgins
1978 --
The Beasts Are on the Streets
| Carl Evans
1977 --
Keep My Grave Open
| Hitchhiker
1977 --
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
| Air Traffic
1977 --
Charge of the Model T's
| Sgt. Bond
1977 --
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
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1976 --
Slumber Party '57
| Mr. Willis
1976 --
Creature from Black Lake
| Sheriff Billy Carter
1975 --
The Florida Connection
| Deke
1974 --
'Gator Bait
| Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
1974 --
Ride in a Pink Car
| Barlow
1974 --
Where the Red Fern Grows
| Sam Bellington
1974 --
The Sugarland Express
| Hunter
1972 --
Encounter with the Unknown
| Second Man
1972 --
Fair Play
| Jed Bartrum
1971 --
The Last Picture Show
| Coach Popper
1970 --
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
| Huddy
1969 --
It's Alive
| Greely / Monster
1969 --
Hell Raiders
| Tex
1969 --
In the Year 2889
| Tim Henderson
1968 --
Mars Needs Women
| Drunk on Pier
1968 --
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
| Policeman (uncredited)
1968 --
Curse of the Swamp Creature
| Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
1967 --
Zontar: The Thing from Venus
| Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
1967 --
Night Fright
| Deputy Ben Whitfield
1967 --
The Eye Creatures
| Sergeant
1967 --
Hip Hot and 21
| Lt. Lang
1967 --
Sam
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1967 --
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
| Abel
1966 --
The Black Cat
| Bartender
1965 --
Hot Blooded Woman
| Railroad Tough
1965 --
High Yellow
| Major Bates
1964 --
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
| Witness