Acting
Billy Bob Thornton
EN cinema · 120 credits
Born
4 August 1955 (age 71)
Birthplace
Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Also known as Reginald Perry
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
Filmography
The Electric State
as Voice (uncredited)
Devil's Peak
as Charlie McNeely
Immediate Family
as Self
The Gray Man
as Fitzroy
Hollywood.Con
as Boxmaster
Untouchable
as Self (archive footage)
A Million Little Pieces
as Leonard
London Fields
as Samson Young
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
as General Hollanek
Bad Santa 2
as Willie Soke
Into the Grizzly Maze
as Douglass
Entourage
as Larsen McCredle
Our Brand Is Crisis
as Pat Candy
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
as Self - Actor / Director
Cut Bank
as Stan Steeley
The Judge
as Dwight Dickham
21 Years: Richard Linklater
as Self - Actor
Jayne Mansfield's Car
as Skip Caldwell, Director, Screenplay
Parkland
as Forrest Sorrels
The Baytown Outlaws
as Carlos
The Smell of Success
as Patrick
Nashville Rises
as Narrator
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Actor
Puss in Boots
as Jack (voice)
Faster
as Cop
Eagle Eye
as Thomas Morgan
The Informers
as William Sloan
The Astronaut Farmer
as Charles Farmer
Mr. Woodcock
as Jasper Woodcock
NFL: Favre 4 Ever
2006
NFL: Favre 4 Ever
as Narrator (voice)
Bad News Bears
as Morris Buttermaker
The Alamo
as Davy Crockett
Chrystal
as Joe
Friday Night Lights
as Coach Gary Gaines
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
Bad Santa
as Willie
Levity
as Manuel Jordan
Intolerable Cruelty
as Howard D. Doyle
Love Actually
as The US President
The Badge
as Sheriff Darl
Waking Up in Reno
as Lonnie Earl Dodd
Monster's Ball
as Hank Grotowski
Bandits
as Terry Lee Collins
The Man Who Wasn't There
as Ed Crane
Daddy and Them
as Claude Montgomery, Director, Writer
Camouflage
Story, Screenplay
South of Heaven, West of Hell
as Brig. Smalls
CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery
as Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Father (voice)
The Last Real Cowboys
as Tar, Story
The Gift
Screenplay
All the Pretty Horses
Director, Producer
Pushing Tin
as Russell Bell
Armageddon
as Dan Truman
A Simple Plan
as Jacob Mitchell
Primary Colors
as Richard Jemmons
Homegrown
as Jack Marsden
U Turn
as Darrell
The Apostle
as Troublemaker
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
as Syd / Monk
Sling Blade
as Karl Childers, Director, Theatre Play, Screenplay
Don't Look Back
as Marshall, Writer, Story
The Winner
as Jack
Out There
as Jailbird
Dead Man
as Big George Drakoulious
On Deadly Ground
as Homer Carlton
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
as Karl Childers, Writer
Floundering
as Gun Clerk
Indecent Proposal
as Day Tripper
Tombstone
as Johnny Tyler
Bound by Honor
as Lightning
Grey Knight
as Langston
Trouble Bound
as Coldface
One False Move
as Ray Malcolm, Writer
The Dark Backward
as Patron at Sloppy's
For the Boys
as Marine Sergeant, Korea
Going Overboard
as Dave
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
as Self - Audience Member
South of Reno
as Counterman
Hunter's Blood
as Billy Bob