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