1920-11-04 ( 104 years old ) in Texas, USA
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
Movies
Painted Hero
1997-09-16
In Broad Daylight
1991-02-03
Hawken's Breed
1987-01-01
Silverado
1985-07-10
Stormin' Home
1985-04-05
Alamo Bay
1985-04-03
Innocent Prey
1984-12-12
Mountaintop Motel Massacre
1983-07-15
The Long Summer of George Adams
1982-01-18
Raggedy Man
1981-09-18
Skyward
1980-11-20
Tom Horn
1980-03-28
The Sky Trap
1979-05-13
The Evictors
1979-04-17
The Beasts Are on the Streets
1978-05-18
Keep My Grave Open
1977-12-17
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977-12-14
Charge of the Model T's
1977-11-04
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1977-09-30
Slumber Party '57
1976-08-31
Creature from Black Lake
1976-03-01
The Florida Connection
1975-11-21
'Gator Bait
1974-10-12
Where the Red Fern Grows
1974-06-21
Ride in a Pink Car
1974-06-21
The Sugarland Express
1974-03-31
Encounter with the Unknown
1972-11-15
Fair Play
1972-01-01
The Last Picture Show
1971-10-03
A Bullet for Pretty Boy
1970-07-15
It's Alive
1969-10-30
Hell Raiders
1969-06-01
In the Year 2889
1969-01-19
Mars Needs Women
1968-08-24
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
1968-08-22
Curse of the Swamp Creature
1968-02-01
Zontar: The Thing from Venus
1967-12-01
Night Fright
1967-11-01
The Eye Creatures
1967-10-20
Hip Hot and 21
1967-03-01
Spiked Heels and Black Nylons
1967-01-01
Sam
1967-01-01
The Black Cat
1966-05-01
Hot Blooded Woman
1965-10-01
High Yellow
1965-08-04
The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
1964-04-22
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