Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton (69)

1955-08-04 | Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA

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.

On Movies

  • Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
  • Devil's Peak
  • Immediate Family
  • The Gray Man
  • Hollywood.Con
  • A Million Little Pieces
  • London Fields
  • Bad Santa 2
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed: Live In Austin
  • Our Brand Is Crisis
  • Entourage
  • Into the Grizzly Maze
  • The Judge
  • Cut Bank
  • Parkland
  • Jayne Mansfield's Car
  • The Baytown Outlaws
  • Puss in Boots
  • The Smell of Success
  • Faster
  • The Informers
  • Eagle Eye
  • Mr. Woodcock
  • The Astronaut Farmer
  • School for Scoundrels
  • The Ice Harvest
  • Bad News Bears
  • Friday Night Lights
  • The Alamo
  • Chrystal
  • Bad Santa
  • Love Actually
  • Intolerable Cruelty
  • Levity
  • Waking Up in Reno
  • The Badge
  • The Man Who Wasn't There
  • Daddy and Them
  • Bandits
  • Monster's Ball
  • CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery
  • The Last Real Cowboys
  • South of Heaven, West of Hell
  • Pushing Tin
  • A Simple Plan
  • Armageddon
  • Homegrown
  • Primary Colors
  • An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
  • The Apostle
  • U Turn
  • A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
  • The Winner
  • Sling Blade
  • Don't Look Back
  • Dead Man
  • Out There
  • The Stars Fell on Henrietta
  • Floundering
  • Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
  • On Deadly Ground
  • Tombstone
  • Indecent Proposal
  • Grey Knight
  • Bound by Honor
  • Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
  • Trouble Bound
  • For the Boys
  • One False Move
  • The Dark Backward
  • Going Overboard
  • Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
  • South of Reno
  • Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
  • Hunter's Blood

Movies as Director

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