Highest rated movie: The Last Picture Show (1971)
Lowest rated movie: The Eye Creatures (1967)
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Looking for reviews of Bill Thurman movies? Cinafilm has a total of 2,306 reviews across 19 movies.
Movies starring Bill Thurman have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 48%.
The Last Picture Show - released in 1971 - is Bill Thurman's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 593 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Bill Thurman is The Eye Creatures - released in 1967 - with a score of 19% based on 6 reviews.
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.
Bill Thurman has acted in films with Jessie Lee Fulton, Annabelle Weenick, Tony Huston and George Edgley.
Bill Thurman has worked with these film directors: Larry Buchanan, Steven Spielberg, Jack Fisk and Lawrence Kasdan.
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