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Billy Bob Thornton
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Biography
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American actor, screenwriter, director and musician. Thornton gained early recognition as a cast member on the CBS sitcom Hearts Afire and in several early 1990s films including On Deadly Ground and Tombstone. In the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the independent film Sling Blade, he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He appeared in several major film roles following Sling Blade 's success, including 1998's Armageddon and A Simple Plan. During the late 1990s, Thornton began a career as a singer-songwriter. He has released three albums and was the singer of a blues rock band.
BODY OF WORK
Billy Bob Thornton's Filmography
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Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
If These Walls Could Rock
The Electric State
as Voice (uncredited)
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
as Self
Devil's Peak
as Charlie McNeely
Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
Immediate Family
as Self
The Gray Man
as Fitzroy
Hollywood.Con
as Boxmaster
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man
as Self
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
as Self
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
A Million Little Pieces
as Leonard
ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas
as Self
Untouchable
as Self (archive footage)
Temple of Art
as Self
London Fields
as Samson Young
Bad Santa 2
as Willie Soke
IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD
as Narrator
The First Boys of Spring
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
as General Hollanek
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
as Self
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed
as Self
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor / Director
Our Brand Is Crisis
as Pat Candy
Entourage
as Larsen McCredle
Into the Grizzly Maze
as Douglass
21 Years: Richard Linklater
as Self - Actor
The Judge
as Dwight Dickham
Cut Bank
as Stan Steeley
Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
as Self
Parkland
as Forrest Sorrels
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Skip Caldwell
The Baytown Outlaws
as Carlos
Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton
as Self
Puss in Boots
as Jack (voice)
Dislecksia: The Movie
as Self
The Smell of Success
as Patrick
Nashville Rises
as Narrator
No Poster
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
as Self
Faster
as Cop
Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
as Self
The Informers
as William Sloan
Eagle Eye
as Thomas Morgan
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
as Self
Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales
as Self
Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock”
as Self
Mr. Woodcock
as Jasper Woodcock
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
as Self
The Astronaut Farmer
as Charles Farmer
2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season
as Narrator
2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film
as Narrator
No Poster
NFL: Favre 4 Ever
as Narrator (voice)
School for Scoundrels
as Dr. P
The Ice Harvest
as Vic
Bad News Bears
as Morris Buttermaker
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
as Self
Friday Night Lights
as Coach Gary Gaines
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self
The Alamo
as Davy Crockett
Chrystal
as Joe
Bad Santa
as Willie
Intolerable Cruelty
as Howard D. Doyle
Love Actually
as The US President
Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
as Narrator
Levity
as Manuel Jordan
Waking Up in Reno
as Lonnie Earl Dodd
The Badge
as Sheriff Darl
No Poster
Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"
as Self
Monster's Ball
as Hank Grotowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
as Ed Crane
Daddy and Them
as Claude Montgomery
Bandits
as Terry Lee Collins
CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery
as Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice)
The Last Real Cowboys
as Tar
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
as Self
South of Heaven, West of Hell
as Brig. Smalls
Pushing Tin
as Russell Bell
A Simple Plan
as Jacob Mitchell
Armageddon
as Dan Truman
Homegrown
as Jack Marsden
Primary Colors
as Richard Jemmons
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
as Self
The Apostle
as Troublemaker
U Turn
as Darrell
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
as Syd / Monk
The Winner
as Jack
Sling Blade
as Karl Childers
Don't Look Back
as Marshall
Dead Man
as Big George Drakoulious
Out There
as Jailbird
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
as Roy
Floundering
as Gun Clerk
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
as Karl Childers
On Deadly Ground
as Homer Carlton
Tombstone
as Johnny Tyler
Indecent Proposal
as Day Tripper
Grey Knight
as Langston
Bound by Honor
as Lightning
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
as Rowdy Udall
Trouble Bound
as Coldface
One False Move
as Ray Malcolm
For the Boys
as Marine Sergeant, Korea
The Dark Backward
as Patron at Sloppy's
Going Overboard
as Dave
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
as Tommy
South of Reno
as Counterman
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
Hunter's Blood
as Billy Bob
No Poster