Bill Thurman

Bill Thurman

Acting 1920-11-04 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

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1997 Old Man Bolen
1991 Virgil Teague
1987 Jeb Kline
1985 Carter
1985 Bailiff
1985 Sheriff
1985 Houstin
1984 Jim Gardner
1983 Reverend Bill McWiley
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1981 Sheriff
1980 Pilot #1
1980 Ora Haley
1979 Preacher Higgins
1979 Sheriff
1978 Carl Evans
1978 Phil Bradley
1977 Air Traffic
1977 Sgt. Bond
1977 Hitchhiker
1976 Sheriff Billy Carter
1976 Mr. Willis
1975 Deke
1974 Hunter
1974 Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
1974 Sam Bellington
1974 Barlow
1972 Jed Bartrum
1972 Second Man
1971 Coach Popper
1971 Key Grip
1970 Huddy
1969 Tim Henderson
1969 Greely / Monster
1969 Tex
1968 Drunk on Pier
1968 Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
1968 Policeman (uncredited)
1967 Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
1967 Sergeant
1967 Deputy Ben Whitfield
1967 Lt. Lang
Sam
1967
1966 Bartender
1966 Key Grip
1965 Major Bates
1965 Railroad Tough