Billy Bob Thornton
- Acting
- August 4, 1955 · Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
- If These Walls Could Rock
- The Electric State · Voice (uncredited)
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties · Self
- Landman · Tommy Norris, Executive producer
- Devil's Peak · Charlie McNeely
- Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
- Immediate Family · Self
- Help Her Live · Thanks
- The Gray Man · Fitzroy
- 1883 · Marshal Jim Courtright
- Hollywood.Con · Boxmaster
- Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man · Self
- Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine · Self
- The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
- Harley Quinn · Billy Bob Thornton (Voice)
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- A Million Little Pieces · Leonard
- ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas · Self
- Untouchable · Self
- Temple of Art · Self
- London Fields · Samson Young
- Bad Santa 2 · Willie Soke
- Goliath · Billy McBride, Director
- IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD · Narrator
- The First Boys of Spring
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot · General Hollanek
- What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt · Self
- Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed · Self
- Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead · Self
- Our Brand Is Crisis · Pat Candy
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Entourage · Larsen McCredle
- Into the Grizzly Maze · Douglass
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- 21 Years: Richard Linklater · Self
- The Judge · Dwight Dickham
- Cut Bank · Stan Steeley
- Fargo · Lorne Malvo, Narrator (Voice)
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Sport in America: Our Defining Stories · Self
- Parkland · Forrest Sorrels
- Jayne Mansfield's Car · Skip Caldwell, Director
- Norm Macdonald Live · Self
- The Baytown Outlaws · Carlos
- Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton · Self
- Puss in Boots · Jack (Voice)
- Dislecksia: The Movie · Self
- The Smell of Success · Patrick
- The King of Luck · Director
- Nashville Rises · Narrator
- Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
- Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm · Self
- Faster · Cop
- Small Town Saturday Night · Thanks
- Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman · Self
- The Informers · William Sloan
- Eagle Eye · Thomas Morgan
- VH1 Rock Honors: The Who · Self
- Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock” · Self
- Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales · Self
- The Big Bang Theory · Oliver Lorvis
- Mr. Woodcock · Jasper Woodcock
- Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation · Self
- The Astronaut Farmer · Charles Farmer
- 2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season · Narrator
- 2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film · Narrator
- NFL: Favre 4 Ever · Narrator (Voice)
- School for Scoundrels · Dr. P
- VH1 Rock Honors
- The Ice Harvest · Vic
- Bad News Bears · Morris Buttermaker
- Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood · Self
- American Dad! · Billy Bob Thornton (Voice)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson · Self
- Friday Night Lights · Coach Gary Gaines
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson · Other Voices (Voice)
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade · Self