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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 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
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1920-11-04
- event Death Date 1995-04-13
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 1.3
- info Birth Place Texas, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Bill Thurman
7.4
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977-12-14
4
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
1970-07-15
6.6
The Sugarland Express
1974-03-31
7
Silverado
1985-07-10
3.9
Mars Needs Women
1968-08-24
7.7
The Last Picture Show
1971-10-03
4.4
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
1983-07-15
4
Zontar: The Thing from Venus
1967-12-01
5.1
Creature from Black Lake
1976-03-01
2.9
The Eye Creatures
1967-10-20
4.7
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1964-04-22
2.8
In the Year 2889
1969-01-19
2.4
Curse of the Swamp Creature
1968-02-01
5
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968-08-22
3.4
It's Alive
1969-10-30
5.3
'Gator Bait
1974-10-12
6.5
The Evictors
1979-04-17
2.8
Night Fright
1967-11-01
5.4
Painted Hero
1997-09-16
3
Hell Raiders
1969-06-01
7
Skyward
1980-11-20
3
High Yellow
1965-08-04
5.7
In Broad Daylight
1991-02-03
0
Stormin' Home
1985-04-05
4.2
Hot-Blooded Woman
1965-10-01
5.5
Slumber Party '57
1976-08-31
6.8
Where the Red Fern Grows
1974-06-21
0
Charge of the Model T's
1977-11-04
7.5
Ride in a Pink Car
1974-06-21
5.2
Raggedy Man
1981-09-18
2
The Florida Connection
1975-11-21
0
Fair Play
1972-01-01
5.2
The Black Cat
1966-05-01
6.4
Tom Horn
1980-03-28
6
The Beasts Are on the Streets
1978-05-18
3.4
Hip Hot and 21
1967-03-01
2.5
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
1967-01-01
3.9
Keep My Grave Open
1977-12-17
4
Innocent Prey
1989-06-15
10
The Long Summer of George Adams
1982-01-18
0
Sam
1967-01-01
3.5
Hawken's Breed
1987-01-01
4
Encounter with the Unknown
1972-11-15
5.9
Alamo Bay
1985-04-03
6.8
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1977-09-30
0
The Sky Trap
1979-05-13
5.4
The Long Hot Summer
1985-10-06
6.7
Dallas
1978-04-02