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Name
Billy Bob Thornton

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1955-08-04 (71 years old)

Place of Birth
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

Movies

Tv Shows

1998 Armageddon as Dan Truman
2001 Monster's Ball as Hank Grotowski
2003 Bad Santa as Willie
2002 The Badge as Sheriff Darl
1997 U Turn as Darrell
1998 A Simple Plan as Jacob Mitchell
2001 Bandits as Terry Lee Collins
2004 The Alamo as Davy Crockett
1997 The Apostle as Troublemaker
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There as Ed Crane
1993 Indecent Proposal as Day Tripper
2003 Levity as Manuel Jordan
2002 Waking Up in Reno as Lonnie Earl Dodd
1992 One False Move as Ray Malcolm
2007 The Astronaut Farmer as Charles Farmer
2003 Intolerable Cruelty as Howard D. Doyle
1993 Tombstone as Johnny Tyler
2000 South of Heaven, West of Hell as Brig. Smalls
2005 The Ice Harvest as Vic
1998 Primary Colors as Richard Jemmons
1999 Pushing Tin as Russell Bell
2001 Daddy and Them as Claude Montgomery
1989 Chopper Chicks in Zombietown as Tommy
2008 Eagle Eye as Thomas Morgan
1996 Sling Blade as Karl Childers
2007 Mr. Woodcock as Jasper Woodcock
1994 On Deadly Ground as Homer Carlton
2004 Chrystal as Joe
2006 School for Scoundrels as Dr. P
2005 Bad News Bears as Morris Buttermaker
1993 Bound by Honor as Lightning
1994 Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade as Karl Childers
2004 Friday Night Lights as Coach Gary Gaines
1988 Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night as Self - Audience Member
2010 Faster as Cop
1997 A Gun, a Car, a Blonde as Syd / Monk
2011 The Smell of Success as Patrick
2019 Untouchable as Self (archive footage)
2011 Dislecksia: The Movie as Self
2008 The Informers as William Sloan
1998 Homegrown as Jack Marsden
2007 Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation as Self
2023 Devil's Peak as Charlie McNeely
1996 Don't Look Back as Marshall
1993 Grey Knight as Langston
2012 The Baytown Outlaws as Carlos
1993 Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun as Rowdy Udall
1993 Trouble Bound as Coldface
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car as Skip Caldwell
2011 Nashville Rises as Narrator
2010 Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm as Self
1996 The Winner as Jack
2018 Temple of Art as Self
2013 Parkland as Forrest Sorrels
2018 London Fields as Samson Young
2012 Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton as Self
2011 Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2004 Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self
2015 Into the Grizzly Maze as Douglass
2016 What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt as Self
2015 Entourage as Larsen McCredle
2022 Immediate Family as Self
2014 Cut Bank as Stan Steeley
2014 The Judge as Dwight Dickham
1994 Floundering as Gun Clerk
2016 The First Boys of Spring
1995 The Stars Fell on Henrietta as Roy
2003 Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart as Narrator
2016 Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as General Hollanek
1989 Going Overboard as Dave
2015 Our Brand Is Crisis as Pat Candy
2003 Love Actually as The US President
2000 CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery as Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice)
2014 21 Years: Richard Linklater as Self - Actor
2016 Bad Santa 2 as Willie Soke
1995 Out There as Jailbird
2015 Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead as Self - Actor / Director
2000 Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration as Self
1995 Dead Man as Big George Drakoulious
2002 Making "The Man Who Wasn't There" as Self
2011 Puss in Boots as Jack (voice)
1986 Hunter's Blood as Billy Bob
2013 Sport in America: Our Defining Stories as Self
2009 Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman as Self
1998 An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn as Self
1988 South of Reno as Counterman
2006 NFL: Favre 4 Ever as Narrator (voice)
2019 A Million Little Pieces as Leonard
2015 Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed as Self
2019 ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas as Self
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2022 Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
2020 The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
2005 Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood as Self
2020 Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine as Self
2006 2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film as Narrator
2000 The Last Real Cowboys as Tar
1991 The Dark Backward as Patron at Sloppy's
2020 Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man as Self
2022 The Gray Man as Fitzroy
2008 VH1 Rock Honors: The Who as Self
2021 Hollywood.Con as Boxmaster
1991 For the Boys as Marine Sergeant, Korea
2024 Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties as Self
2006 2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season as Narrator
Soon Somedays
2016 IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD as Narrator
2025 If These Walls Could Rock
2025 The Electric State as Voice (uncredited)
2026 Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
2008 Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock” as Self
2008 Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales as Self

1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 The Daily Show ( 4 episodes ) as Self
1986 Matlock ( 1 episode ) as Pawnshop Clerk
1952 Today ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 0 episode )
1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
1999 The Early Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
2002 HypaSpace ( 1 episode ) as Self
1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1992 Hearts Afire ( 54 episodes ) as Billy Bob Davis
1979 Knots Landing ( 1 episode ) as Timberman
1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2003 Celebrities Uncensored ( 1 episode ) as Self
1977 This Week in Baseball ( 1 episode )
2006 VH1 Rock Honors ( 1 episode )
1953 The Oscars ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
2014 Fargo ( 10 episodes ) as Lorne Malvo
2013 Norm Macdonald Live ( 1 episode ) as Self
2007 The Big Bang Theory ( 1 episode ) as Oliver Lorvis
2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 1 episode ) as Self
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 2 episodes ) as Self
2016 Goliath ( 32 episodes ) as Billy McBride
2024 Landman ( 20 episodes ) as Tommy Norris
2014 Fargo ( 1 episode ) as Narrator (voice)
1998 CatDog ( 1 episode ) as CatDog's Father (voice)
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 5 episodes ) as Self - Guest
2019 Harley Quinn ( 1 episode ) as Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
2021 1883 ( 1 episode ) as Marshal Jim Courtright
1997 Classic Albums ( 1 episode ) as Self
1997 King of the Hill ( 1 episode ) as Boyce Hubert (voice)
2005 American Dad! ( 1 episode ) as Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
2003 Real Time with Bill Maher ( 1 episode ) as Self
1990 The Outsiders ( 10 episodes ) as Buck Merrill
1988 This Morning ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors ( 1 episode ) as Self
1990 Evening Shade ( 1 episode ) as Alvin
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2002 CMT Music Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest

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