Billy Bob Thornton

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1955-08-04 (Age: 71)

Place of Birth

Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA

Billy Bob Thornton

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.

Filmography (109)

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

If These Walls Could Rock

⭐ 6.5 Role: Voice (uncredited)

The Electric State

⭐ 6.4 Role: Self

Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties

⭐ 5.5 Role: Charlie McNeely

Devil's Peak

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures

⭐ 7.4 Role: Self

Immediate Family

⭐ 6.9 Role: Fitzroy

The Gray Man

⭐ 3.6 Role: Boxmaster

Hollywood.Con

⭐ 5.0 Role: Self

Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine

⭐ 5.0 Role: Unknown

The Ventures: Stars on Guitars

⭐ 6.1 Role: Leonard

A Million Little Pieces

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self (archive footage)

Untouchable

⭐ 7.5 Role: Self

ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Temple of Art

⭐ 5.1 Role: Samson Young

London Fields

⭐ 5.4 Role: Willie Soke

Bad Santa 2

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The First Boys of Spring

⭐ 6.3 Role: General Hollanek

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

⭐ 0 Role: Self

What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt

⭐ 5.4 Role: Self

Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed

⭐ 5.9 Role: Pat Candy

Our Brand Is Crisis

⭐ 6.2 Role: Larsen McCredle

Entourage

⭐ 5.4 Role: Douglass

Into the Grizzly Maze

⭐ 6.7 Role: Self - Actor / Director

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

⭐ 6.3 Role: Self - Actor

21 Years: Richard Linklater

⭐ 7.3 Role: Dwight Dickham

The Judge

⭐ 5.8 Role: Stan Steeley

Cut Bank

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Sport in America: Our Defining Stories

⭐ 6.3 Role: Forrest Sorrels

Parkland

⭐ 5.7 Role: Skip Caldwell

Jayne Mansfield's Car

⭐ 6.0 Role: Carlos

The Baytown Outlaws

⭐ 6.3 Role: Self

Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton

⭐ 6.6 Role: Jack (voice)

Puss in Boots

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Dislecksia: The Movie

⭐ 5.6 Role: Patrick

The Smell of Success

⭐ 8.0 Role: Narrator

Nashville Rises

⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland

⭐ 6.2 Role: Self

Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm

⭐ 6.4 Role: Cop

Faster

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman

⭐ 4.8 Role: William Sloan

The Informers

⭐ 6.5 Role: Thomas Morgan

Eagle Eye

⭐ 0 Role: Self

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who

⭐ 5.1 Role: Jasper Woodcock

Mr. Woodcock

⭐ 6.5 Role: Self

Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation

⭐ 6.3 Role: Charles Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer

⭐ 9.2 Role: Narrator

2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season

⭐ 0 Role: Narrator

2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film

⭐ 8.0 Role: Narrator (voice)

NFL: Favre 4 Ever

⭐ 5.5 Role: Dr. P

School for Scoundrels

⭐ 5.9 Role: Vic

The Ice Harvest

⭐ 5.9 Role: Morris Buttermaker

Bad News Bears

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood

⭐ 6.9 Role: Coach Gary Gaines

Friday Night Lights

⭐ 7.2 Role: Other Voices (voice)

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

⭐ 8.0 Role: Self

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

⭐ 5.8 Role: Davy Crockett

The Alamo

⭐ 5.8 Role: Joe

Chrystal

⭐ 6.6 Role: Willie

Bad Santa

⭐ 6.0 Role: Howard D. Doyle

Intolerable Cruelty

⭐ 7.1 Role: The US President

Love Actually

⭐ 9.0 Role: Narrator

Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart

⭐ 6.1 Role: Manuel Jordan

Levity

⭐ 5.0 Role: Lonnie Earl Dodd

Waking Up in Reno

⭐ 5.7 Role: Sheriff Darl

The Badge

⭐ 0 Role: Self

Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"

⭐ 6.8 Role: Hank Grotowski

Monster's Ball

⭐ 7.5 Role: Ed Crane

The Man Who Wasn't There

⭐ 5.4 Role: Claude Montgomery

Daddy and Them

⭐ 6.3 Role: Terry Lee Collins

Bandits

⭐ 7.8 Role: Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice)

CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery

⭐ 7.7 Role: Tar

The Last Real Cowboys

⭐ 7.0 Role: Self

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration

⭐ 5.0 Role: Brig. Smalls

South of Heaven, West of Hell

⭐ 5.9 Role: Russell Bell

Pushing Tin

⭐ 7.2 Role: Jacob Mitchell

A Simple Plan

⭐ 6.8 Role: Dan Truman

Armageddon

⭐ 5.6 Role: Jack Marsden

Homegrown

⭐ 6.3 Role: Richard Jemmons

Primary Colors

⭐ 3.9 Role: Self

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

⭐ 6.3 Role: Troublemaker

The Apostle

⭐ 6.6 Role: Darrell

U Turn

⭐ 4.9 Role: Syd / Monk

A Gun, a Car, a Blonde

⭐ 4.6 Role: Jack

The Winner

⭐ 7.5 Role: Karl Childers

Sling Blade

⭐ 5.2 Role: Marshall

Don't Look Back

⭐ 7.3 Role: Big George Drakoulious

Dead Man

⭐ 4.9 Role: Jailbird

Out There

⭐ 6.2 Role: Roy

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

⭐ 5.0 Role: Gun Clerk

Floundering

⭐ 6.7 Role: Karl Childers

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

⭐ 5.2 Role: Homer Carlton

On Deadly Ground

⭐ 7.6 Role: Johnny Tyler

Tombstone

⭐ 6.4 Role: Day Tripper

Indecent Proposal

⭐ 5.1 Role: Langston

Grey Knight

⭐ 8.2 Role: Lightning

Bound by Honor

⭐ 5.0 Role: Rowdy Udall

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

⭐ 6.0 Role: Coldface

Trouble Bound

⭐ 6.3 Role: Marine Sergeant, Korea

For the Boys

⭐ 6.7 Role: Ray Malcolm

One False Move

⭐ 5.7 Role: Patron at Sloppy's

The Dark Backward

⭐ 2.3 Role: Dave

Going Overboard

⭐ 4.6 Role: Tommy

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

⭐ 4.9 Role: Counterman

South of Reno

⭐ 7.6 Role: Self - Audience Member

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

⭐ 5.6 Role: Billy Bob

Hunter's Blood