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In Broad Daylight

as Virgil Teague

1991
Mountaintop Motel Massacre

as Reverend Bill McWiley

1983
The Evictors

as Preacher Higgins

1979
Creature from Black Lake

as Sheriff Billy Carter

1976
Where the Red Fern Grows

as Sam Bellington

1974
Ride in a Pink Car

as Barlow

1974
'Gator Bait

as Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas

1974
It's Alive

as Greely / Monster

1969
Curse of the Swamp Creature

as Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature

1968
Hell Raiders

as Tex

1969
In the Year 2889

as Tim Henderson

1969
Night Fright

as Deputy Ben Whitfield

1967
Hot-Blooded Woman

as Railroad Tough

1965
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Bill Thurman Bill Thurman

Birthday

1920-11-04

Place of Birth

Texas, USA

Biography

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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