BILL THURMAN
ACTING
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.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977
A Bullet for Pretty Boy 1970
The Sugarland Express 1974
Silverado 1985
Mars Needs Women 1968
The Last Picture Show 1971
Mountaintop Motel Massacre 1983
Zontar: The Thing from Venus 1967
Creature from Black Lake 1976
The Eye Creatures 1967
In the Year 2889 1969
Curse of the Swamp Creature 1968
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde 1968
It's Alive 1969
'Gator Bait 1974
The Evictors 1979
Night Fright 1967
Skyward 1980
In Broad Daylight 1991
Where the Red Fern Grows 1974
Ride in a Pink Car 1974
Raggedy Man 1981
Fair Play 1972
The Black Cat 1966
Tom Horn 1980
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons 1967
Hawken's Breed 1987
Encounter with the Unknown 1972
Alamo Bay 1985
The Long Hot Summer 1985
Dallas 1978