Billy Bob Thornton

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Acting

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

• Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern (2026)
• If These Walls Could Rock (2025)
• The Electric State (2025)
• Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties (2024)
• Devil's Peak (2023)
• Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures (2022)
• Immediate Family (2022)
• Help Her Live (2022)
• The Gray Man (2022)
• Hollywood.Con (2021)
• Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man (2020)
• Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine (2020)
• The Ventures: Stars on Guitars (2020)
• A Million Little Pieces (2019)
• ZZ Top: That Little Ol' Band from Texas (2019)
• Untouchable (2019)
• Temple of Art (2018)
• London Fields (2018)
• Bad Santa 2 (2016)
• IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD (2016)
• The First Boys of Spring (2016)
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
• What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt (2016)
• Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed (2015)
• Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015)
• Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
• Entourage (2015)
• Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)
• 21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014)
• The Judge (2014)
• Cut Bank (2014)
• Sport in America: Our Defining Stories (2013)
• Parkland (2013)
• Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013)
• The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
• Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton (2012)
• Puss in Boots (2011)
• Dislecksia: The Movie (2011)
• The Smell of Success (2011)
• The King of Luck (2011)
• Nashville Rises (2011)
• Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland (2011)
• Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2010)
• Faster (2010)
• Small Town Saturday Night (2010)
• Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman (2009)
• The Informers (2008)
• Eagle Eye (2008)
• VH1 Rock Honors: The Who (2008)
• Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock” (2008)
• Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales (2008)
• Mr. Woodcock (2007)
• Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation (2007)
• The Astronaut Farmer (2007)
• 2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season (2006)
• 2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film (2006)
• NFL: Favre 4 Ever (2006)
• School for Scoundrels (2006)
• The Ice Harvest (2005)
• Bad News Bears (2005)
• Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood (2005)
• Friday Night Lights (2004)
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
• Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
• The Alamo (2004)
• Chrystal (2004)
• Bad Santa (2003)
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
• Love Actually (2003)
• Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart (2003)
• Levity (2003)
• Waking Up in Reno (2002)
• Widespread Panic: Panic In the Streets (2002)
• The Badge (2002)
• Making "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2002)
• Monster's Ball (2001)
• The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
• Daddy and Them (2001)
• Bandits (2001)
• Camouflage (2001)
• The Gift (2000)
• All the Pretty Horses (2000)
• CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery (2000)
• The Last Real Cowboys (2000)
• Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration (2000)
• South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000)
• Pushing Tin (1999)
• A Simple Plan (1998)
• Armageddon (1998)
• Homegrown (1998)
• Primary Colors (1998)
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998)
• The Apostle (1997)
• U Turn (1997)
• A Gun, a Car, a Blonde (1997)
• The Winner (1996)
• Sling Blade (1996)
• Don't Look Back (1996)
• A Family Thing (1996)
• Dead Man (1995)
• Out There (1995)
• The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
• Floundering (1994)
• Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994)
• On Deadly Ground (1994)
• Tombstone (1993)
• Indecent Proposal (1993)
• Grey Knight (1993)
• Bound by Honor (1993)
• Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun (1993)
• Trouble Bound (1993)
• One False Move (1992)
• For the Boys (1991)
• The Dark Backward (1991)
• Going Overboard (1989)
• Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)
• South of Reno (1988)
• Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1988)
• Hunter's Blood (1986)
• Somedays