Bill Thurman

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Fair Play

1972-01-01

5.2

The Black Cat

1966-05-01

6.4

Tom Horn

1980-03-28

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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

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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

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The Sky Trap

1979-05-13

5.4

The Long Hot Summer

1985-10-06

6.7

Dallas

1978-04-02

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