Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American screenwriter, actor and occasionalscreenwriter, playwright and singer. His rise to fame began in the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film
Sling Blade, for which he won an
Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay; he has since established a successful career as a film actor in
Hollywood. Thornton has been described in media reports as "Hollywood's go-to alpha male"
Filmography
| Year | /Film | Role |
1989
| South of Reno | Counterman |
| Chopper Chicks in Zombietown | Tommy |
| 1992 | One False Move | Ray Malcolm |
| 1993 | Tombstone | Johnny Tyler |
| Bound by Honor | Lightning |
| Indecent Proposal | Day Tripper |
| 1994 | On Deadly Ground | Homer Carlton |
| 1995 | Dead Man | Big George Drakoulious |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Karl Childers |
| Don't Look Back | Marshall |
| 1997 | The Apostle | Troublemaker |
| U Turn | Darrell |
| Princess Mononoke | Jigo |
| 1998 | A Simple Plan | Jacob Mitchell |
| Armageddon | Dan Truman, NASA Administrator |
| Homegrown | Jack Marsden |
| The Thin Red Line | Narrator(Edited) |
| Primary Colors | Richard Jemmons |
| 1999 | Pushing Tin | Russell Bell |
| 2000 | The Last Real Cowboys | Tar |
| 2001 | Monster's Ball | Hank Grotowski |
| Bandits | Terry Lee Collins |
| Daddy and Them | Claude Montgomery |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | Ed Crane |
| 2002 | Waking Up in Reno | Lonnie Earl Dodd |
| The Badge | Sheriff Darl Hardwick |
| 2003 | Bad Santa | Willie |
| Love Actually | The US President |
| Intolerable Cruelty | Howard D. Doyle |
| Levity | Manuel Jordan |
| 2004 | Friday Night Lights | Coach Gary Gaines |
| The Alamo | David Crockett |
| Chrystal | Joe |
| 2005 | The Ice Harvest | Vic Cavanaugh |
| Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker |
| 2006 | School for Scoundrels | Dr. P/Dennis Sherman |
| 2007 | The Astronaut Farmer | Charles Farmer |
| Mr. Woodcock | Mr. Woodcock |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | Morgan |
| 2009 | The Informers | William |
| Deadly Creatures | Wade |
| 2010 | Zero Theorem | Qohen Leth
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Directing and Screenwriting Credits
- One False Move (1992) (Writer)
- A Family Thing (1996) (Writer)
- Sling Blade (1996) (Director/Writer)
- All the Pretty Horses (2000) (Director/Writer/Producer)
- The Gift (2000) (Writer)
- Daddy and Them (2001) (Director/Writer)
Billy Bob Thornton (born August 4, 1955) is an American screenwriter, actor and occasionalscreenwriter, playwright and singer. His rise to fame began in the mid-1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film Sling Blade, for which he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay; he has since established a successful career as a film actor in Hollywood. Thornton has been described in media reports as "Hollywood's go-to alpha male"
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