Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/4/1920
Place of Birth
Texas, USA
Bill Thurman
Biography
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; sai...
Known For
Hell Raiders
as Tex
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
as Witness
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
as Air Traffic
Stormin' Home
as Bailiff
Raggedy Man
as Sheriff
'Gator Bait
as Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
Silverado
as Carter
The Last Picture Show
as Coach Popper
Skyward
as Pilot #1
Tom Horn
as Ora Haley
Painted Hero
as Old Man Bolen
Alamo Bay
as Sheriff
Charge of the Model T's
as Sgt. Bond
The Sugarland Express
as Hunter
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
as Huddy
The Eye Creatures
as Sergeant
Mars Needs Women
as Drunk on Pier
Zontar: The Thing from Venus
as Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
Where the Red Fern Grows
as Sam Bellington
Fair Play
as Jed Bartrum