Billy Bob Thornton

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.

Cast

Terry Lee Collins

The Man Who Wasn't There

Indecent Proposal

Waking Up in Reno

Lonnie Earl Dodd

The Astronaut Farmer

Intolerable Cruelty

Howard D. Doyle

South of Heaven, West of Hell

The Ice Harvest

Richard Jemmons

Claude Montgomery

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown

On Deadly Ground

Jasper Woodcock

School for Scoundrels

Morris Buttermaker

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Friday Night Lights

Coach Gary Gaines

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Self - Audience Member

A Gun, a Car, a Blonde

The Smell of Success

Self (archive footage)

Dislecksia: The Movie

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

Charlie McNeely

Don't Look Back

The Baytown Outlaws

Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun

Jayne Mansfield's Car

Nashville Rises

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

Forrest Sorrels

Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton

Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Into the Grizzly Maze

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

Larsen McCredle

Immediate Family

The First Boys of Spring

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

(Inside Out): Warren Zevon

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

General Hollanek

Going Overboard

Our Brand Is Crisis

The US President

CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery

Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice)

21 Years: Richard Linklater

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead

Self - Actor / Director

Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration

Big George Drakoulious

Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"

Sport in America: Our Defining Stories

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman

NFL: Favre 4 Ever

A Million Little Pieces

Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed

ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Other Voices (voice)

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

The Ventures: Stars on Guitars

Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood

Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine

2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film

The Last Real Cowboys

The Dark Backward

Patron at Sloppy's

Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man

VH1 Rock Honors: The Who

Marine Sergeant, Korea

Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties

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

Crew

All the Pretty Horses

Director, Producer

Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay

Director, Writer

Jayne Mansfield's Car

Director, Screenplay

The Last Real Cowboys

Don't Look Back

Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade

Small Town Saturday Night

Story, Screenplay

The King of Luck