Bill Thurman

Bill Thurman

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
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1920-11-04
Place of Birth: Texas, USA
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Movies List of Bill Thurman

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The Sugarland Express

1974 Movie
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Silverado

1985 Movie
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Mars Needs Women

1968 Movie
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The Last Picture Show

1971 Movie
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The Eye Creatures

1967 Movie
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In the Year 2889

1969 Movie
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It's Alive

1969 Movie
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'Gator Bait

1974 Movie
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The Evictors

1979 Movie
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Night Fright

1967 Movie
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Painted Hero

1997 Movie
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Hell Raiders

1969 Movie
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Skyward

1980 Movie
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High Yellow

1965 Movie
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In Broad Daylight

1991 Movie
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Stormin' Home

1985 Movie
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Hot-Blooded Woman

1965 Movie
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Slumber Party '57

1976 Movie
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Ride in a Pink Car

1974 Movie
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Raggedy Man

1981 Movie
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Fair Play

1972 Movie
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The Black Cat

1966 Movie
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Tom Horn

1980 Movie
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Innocent Prey

1984 Movie
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Keep My Grave Open

1977 Movie
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Hip Hot and 21

1967 Movie
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Sam

1967 Movie
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Hawken's Breed

1987 Movie
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Alamo Bay

1985 Movie
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The Sky Trap

1979 Movie