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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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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May 20th, 2026 | Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern | TBD | TBD | |
November 20th, 2025 | If These Walls Could Rock | TBD | TBD | |
March 7th, 2025 | The Electric State | Voice (uncredited) | 6.5 | |
December 6th, 2024 | Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties | Self | 6.4 | |
February 17th, 2023 | Devil's Peak | Charlie McNeely | 5.5 | |
October 6th, 2022 | Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures | TBD | TBD | |
September 30th, 2022 | Immediate Family | Self | 7.4 | |
July 13th, 2022 | The Gray Man | Fitzroy | 6.9 | |
January 29th, 2021 | Hollywood.Con | Boxmaster | 3.6 | |
November 6th, 2020 | Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man | Self | 5 | |
June 11th, 2020 | Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine | Self | TBD | |
February 12th, 2020 | The Ventures: Stars on Guitars | TBD | 5 | |
August 30th, 2019 | A Million Little Pieces | Leonard | 6.1 | |
June 20th, 2019 | Untouchable | Self (archive footage) | 6.5 | |
June 1st, 2019 | ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas | Self | 7.5 | |
December 31st, 2018 | Temple of Art | Self | TBD | |
September 20th, 2018 | London Fields | Samson Young | 5.1 | |
November 23rd, 2016 | Bad Santa 2 | Willie Soke | 5.4 | |
October 1st, 2016 | IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD | Narrator | TBD | |
August 19th, 2016 | The First Boys of Spring | TBD | TBD | |
March 4th, 2016 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | General Hollanek | 6.3 | |
January 1st, 2016 | What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt | Self | TBD | |
December 9th, 2015 | Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed | Self | 5.4 | |
September 11th, 2015 | Our Brand Is Crisis | Pat Candy | 5.9 | |
June 3rd, 2015 | Entourage | Larsen McCredle | 6.2 | |
February 27th, 2015 | Into the Grizzly Maze | Douglass | 5.4 | |
January 25th, 2015 | Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Self - Actor / Director | 6.7 | |
November 7th, 2014 | 21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self - Actor | 6.3 | |
October 8th, 2014 | The Judge | Dwight Dickham | 7.3 | |
October 4th, 2014 | Cut Bank | Stan Steeley | 5.8 | |
November 28th, 2013 | Sport in America: Our Defining Stories | Self | 8 | |
October 2nd, 2013 | Parkland | Forrest Sorrels | 6.3 | |
July 25th, 2013 | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Skip Caldwell | 5.7 | |
August 27th, 2012 | The Baytown Outlaws | Carlos | 6 | |
March 30th, 2012 | Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton | Self | 6.3 | |
October 27th, 2011 | Puss in Boots | Jack (voice) | 6.6 | |
October 4th, 2011 | Dislecksia: The Movie | Self | TBD | |
August 19th, 2011 | The Smell of Success | Patrick | 5.6 | |
March 11th, 2011 | Nashville Rises | Narrator | 8 | |
February 11th, 2011 | Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland | TBD | TBD | |
November 24th, 2010 | Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm | Self | 6.2 | |
November 23rd, 2010 | Faster | Cop | 6.4 | |
July 20th, 2009 | Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman | Self | TBD | |
November 5th, 2008 | The Informers | William Sloan | 4.8 | |
September 25th, 2008 | Eagle Eye | Thomas Morgan | 6.5 | |
July 17th, 2008 | VH1 Rock Honors: The Who | Self | TBD | |
September 14th, 2007 | Mr. Woodcock | Jasper Woodcock | 5.1 | |
May 1st, 2007 | Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation | Self | 6.5 | |
February 23rd, 2007 | The Astronaut Farmer | Charles Farmer | 6.3 | |
November 1st, 2006 | 2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season | Narrator | 9.2 | |
October 21st, 2006 | 2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film | Narrator | TBD | |
October 3rd, 2006 | NFL: Favre 4 Ever | Narrator (voice) | 8 | |
September 29th, 2006 | School for Scoundrels | Dr. P | 5.5 | |
November 23rd, 2005 | The Ice Harvest | Vic | 5.9 | |
July 22nd, 2005 | Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker | 5.9 | |
June 7th, 2005 | Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood | Self | 7 | |
October 8th, 2004 | Friday Night Lights | Coach Gary Gaines | 6.9 | |
September 4th, 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 7.2 | |
July 25th, 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self | 8 | |
April 7th, 2004 | The Alamo | Davy Crockett | 5.8 | |
February 26th, 2004 | Chrystal | Joe | 5.8 | |
November 26th, 2003 | Bad Santa | Willie | 6.6 | |
October 10th, 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Howard D. Doyle | 6 | |
September 7th, 2003 | Love Actually | The US President | 7.1 | |
August 23rd, 2003 | Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart | Narrator | 9 | |
March 16th, 2003 | Levity | Manuel Jordan | 6.1 | |
December 13th, 2002 | Waking Up in Reno | Lonnie Earl Dodd | 5 | |
September 7th, 2002 | The Badge | Sheriff Darl | 5.7 | |
April 16th, 2002 | Making "The Man Who Wasn't There" | Self | TBD | |
December 26th, 2001 | Monster's Ball | Hank Grotowski | 6.8 | |
October 26th, 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Ed Crane | 7.5 | |
October 26th, 2001 | Daddy and Them | Claude Montgomery | 5.4 | |
October 12th, 2001 | Bandits | Terry Lee Collins | 6.3 | |
November 25th, 2000 | CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery | Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice) | 7.8 | |
August 15th, 2000 | The Last Real Cowboys | Tar | 7.7 | |
June 6th, 2000 | Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration | Self | 7 | |
January 28th, 2000 | South of Heaven, West of Hell | Brig. Smalls | 5 | |
April 23rd, 1999 | Pushing Tin | Russell Bell | 5.9 | |
December 11th, 1998 | A Simple Plan | Jacob Mitchell | 7.2 | |
July 1st, 1998 | Armageddon | Dan Truman | 6.8 | |
April 17th, 1998 | Homegrown | Jack Marsden | 5.6 | |
March 20th, 1998 | Primary Colors | Richard Jemmons | 6.3 | |
February 27th, 1998 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn | Self | 3.9 | |
December 19th, 1997 | The Apostle | Troublemaker | 6.3 | |
October 3rd, 1997 | U Turn | Darrell | 6.6 | |
June 1st, 1997 | A Gun, a Car, a Blonde | Syd / Monk | 4.9 | |
September 13th, 1996 | The Winner | Jack | 4.6 | |
August 30th, 1996 | Sling Blade | Karl Childers | 7.5 | |
July 13th, 1996 | Don't Look Back | Marshall | 5.2 | |
December 23rd, 1995 | Dead Man | Big George Drakoulious | 7.3 | |
November 19th, 1995 | Out There | Jailbird | 4.9 | |
September 15th, 1995 | The Stars Fell on Henrietta | Roy | 6.2 | |
November 4th, 1994 | Floundering | Gun Clerk | 5 | |
March 26th, 1994 | Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade | Karl Childers | 6.7 | |
February 18th, 1994 | On Deadly Ground | Homer Carlton | 5.2 | |
December 25th, 1993 | Tombstone | Johnny Tyler | 7.6 | |
April 7th, 1993 | Indecent Proposal | Day Tripper | 6.4 | |
March 7th, 1993 | Grey Knight | Langston | 5.1 | |
February 5th, 1993 | Bound by Honor | Lightning | 8.1 | |
January 30th, 1993 | Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun | Rowdy Udall | 5 | |
January 9th, 1993 | Trouble Bound | Coldface | 6 | |
November 22nd, 1991 | For the Boys | Marine Sergeant, Korea | 6.3 | |
October 12th, 1991 | One False Move | Ray Malcolm | 6.7 | |
July 26th, 1991 | The Dark Backward | Patron at Sloppy's | 5.7 | |
May 11th, 1989 | Going Overboard | Dave | 2.4 | |
April 5th, 1989 | Chopper Chicks in Zombietown | Tommy | 4.6 | |
April 22nd, 1988 | South of Reno | Counterman | 4.9 | |
January 3rd, 1988 | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | 7.6 | |
September 26th, 1986 | Hunter's Blood | Billy Bob | 5.6 | |
TBD | Somedays | TBD | TBD |