
Bill Thurman
Known for ActingBorn 1920-11-04Died 1995-04-13Texas, USA
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: woodyandersRead more
Movies & web series
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Charge of the Model T's
1977 · Movie
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The Long Summer of George Adams
1982 · Movie
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The Last Picture Show
1971 · Movie
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Movie
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Ride in a Pink Car
1974 · Movie
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Skyward
1980 · Movie
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Stormin' Home
1985 · Movie
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Silverado
1985 · Movie
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The Sky Trap
1979 · Movie
Sam
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Sam
1967 · Movie
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Where the Red Fern Grows
1974 · Movie
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Dallas
1978 · Series
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The Sugarland Express
1974 · Movie
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The Beasts Are on the Streets
1978 · Movie
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The Evictors
1979 · Movie
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Tom Horn
1980 · Movie
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In Broad Daylight
1991 · Movie
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Alamo Bay
1985 · Movie
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Hell Raiders
1969 · Movie
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The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968 · Movie
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It Takes Two
1988 · Movie
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The Long Hot Summer
1985 · Series
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Raggedy Man
1981 · Movie
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Painted Hero
1997 · Movie
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The Florida Connection
1975 · Movie
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Fair Play
1972 · Movie
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Creature from Black Lake
1976 · Movie
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 · Movie
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'Gator Bait
1974 · Movie
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The Black Cat
1966 · Movie
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Mountaintop Motel Massacre
1983 · Movie
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Slumber Party '57
1976 · Movie
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Innocent Prey
1984 · Movie
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Encounter with the Unknown
1972 · Movie
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Zontar: The Thing from Venus
1967 · Movie
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Hawken's Breed
1987 · Movie
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A Bullet for Pretty Boy
1970 · Movie
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Strawberries Need Rain
1971 · Movie
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Keep My Grave Open
1977 · Movie
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Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
1967 · Movie
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Hot Blooded Woman
1965 · Movie
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Mars Needs Women
1968 · Movie
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It's Alive
1969 · Movie
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High Yellow
1965 · Movie
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Hip Hot and 21
1967 · Movie
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In the Year 2889
1969 · Movie
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Night Fright
1967 · Movie
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The Eye Creatures
1967 · Movie