Birthday
1920/11/04
Day of death
1995/04/13 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Texas, USA
Also know as
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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...Read more
(1977) Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Air Traffic
(1970) A Bullet for Pretty Boy
as Huddy
(1974) The Sugarland Express
as Hunter
(1985) Silverado
as Carter
(1968) Mars Needs Women
as Drunk on Pier
(1971) The Last Picture Show
as Coach Popper
(1983) Mountaintop Motel Massacre
as Reverend Bill McWiley
(1967) Zontar: The Thing from Venus
as Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
(1976) Creature from Black Lake
as Sheriff Billy Carter
(1967) The Eye Creatures
as Sergeant
(1964) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Witness
(1969) In the Year 2889
as Tim Henderson
(1968) Curse of the Swamp Creature
as Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
(1968) The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Policeman (uncredited)
(1969) It's Alive
as Greely / Monster
(1974) 'Gator Bait
as Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
(1979) The Evictors
as Preacher Higgins
(1967) Night Fright
as Deputy Ben Whitfield
(1997) Painted Hero
as Old Man Bolen
(1969) Hell Raiders
as Tex
(1980) Skyward
as Pilot #1
(1965) High Yellow
as Major Bates
(1991) In Broad Daylight
as Virgil Teague
(1985) Stormin' Home
as Bailiff
(1965) Hot-Blooded Woman
as Railroad Tough
(1976) Slumber Party '57
as Mr. Willis
(1974) Where the Red Fern Grows
as Sam Bellington
(1977) Charge of the Model T's
as Sgt. Bond
(1974) Ride in a Pink Car
as Barlow
(1981) Raggedy Man
as Sheriff
(1975) The Florida Connection
as Deke
(1972) Fair Play
as Jed Bartrum
(1966) The Black Cat
as Bartender
(1980) Tom Horn
as Ora Haley
(1977) Keep My Grave Open
as Hitchhiker
(1967) Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
as Abel
(1978) The Beasts Are on the Streets
as Carl Evans
(1967) Hip Hot and 21
as Lt. Lang
(1984) Innocent Prey
as Jim Gardner
(1982) The Long Summer of George Adams
as Floyd
(1967) Sam
as ---
(1987) Hawken's Breed
as Jeb Kline
(1972) Encounter with the Unknown
as Second Man
(1985) Alamo Bay
as Sheriff
(1977) The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
as ---
(1979) The Sky Trap
as Sheriff
(1985) The Long Hot Summer
as Houstin
(1978) Dallas
as Phil Bradley