Bill Thurman
Born in Texas, USA — Nov 04 1920• Died Apr 13 1995
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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 i…
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Bill Thurman's Credits
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Dallas
Phil Bradley
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Air Traffic
Silverado
Carter
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Witness
The Last Picture Show
Coach Popper
The Long Hot Summer
Houstin
The Sugarland Express
Hunter
Skyward
Pilot #1
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
Huddy
Tom Horn
Ora Haley
Creature from Black Lake
Sheriff Billy Carter
It Takes Two
Bus Driver
Raggedy Man
Sheriff
Strawberries Need Rain
Camera
In Broad Daylight
Virgil Teague
Alamo Bay
Sheriff
The Evictors
Preacher Higgins
Hell Raiders
Tex
Curse of the Swamp Creature
Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
Painted Hero
Old Man Bolen
The Sky Trap
Sheriff
The Beasts Are on the Streets
Carl Evans
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sam Bellington
'Gator Bait
Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
Innocent Prey
Jim Gardner
Hawken's Breed
Jeb Kline
Ride in a Pink Car
Barlow
Stormin' Home
Bailiff
Mars Needs Women
Drunk on Pier
The Eye Creatures
Sergeant
Night Fright
Deputy Ben Whitfield
Charge of the Model T's
Sgt. Bond
Slumber Party '57
Mr. Willis
In the Year 2889
Tim Henderson
Encounter with the Unknown
Second Man
The Long Summer of George Adams
Floyd
Keep My Grave Open
Hitchhiker
Fair Play
Jed Bartrum
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
Reverend Bill McWiley
High Yellow
Major Bates
The Florida Connection
Deke
Zontar: The Thing from Venus
Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
The Black Cat
Bartender
It's Alive
Greely / Monster
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
Abel
Sam
Hip Hot and 21
Lt. Lang
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
Policeman (uncredited)
Hot Blooded Woman
Railroad Tough
The Pickle Goes in the Middle
Mr. Stanovich