Billy Bob Thornton
Biography
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.
Acting (101 movies)
Armageddon
1998
Monster's Ball
2001
Bad Santa
2003
The Badge
2002
U Turn
1997
A Simple Plan
1998
Bandits
2001
The Alamo
2004
The Apostle
1997
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
Indecent Proposal
1993
Levity
2003
One False Move
1991
Waking Up in Reno
2002
The Astronaut Farmer
2007
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
Tombstone
1993
South of Heaven, West of Hell
2000
The Ice Harvest
2005
Primary Colors
1998
Pushing Tin
1999
Daddy and Them
2001
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
1989
Eagle Eye
2008
Sling Blade
1996
On Deadly Ground
1994
Mr. Woodcock
2007
Chrystal
2004
School for Scoundrels
2006
Bad News Bears
2005
Bound by Honor
1993
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1994
Friday Night Lights
2004
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
Faster
2010
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
1997
The Smell of Success
2011
Untouchable
2019
Dislecksia: The Movie
2011
The Informers
2008
Homegrown
1998
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007
Devil's Peak
2023
Don't Look Back
1996
Grey Knight
1993
The Baytown Outlaws
2012
Trouble Bound
1993
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
Nashville Rises
2011
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
2010
The Winner
1996
Temple of Art
2018
Parkland
2013
London Fields
2018
Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton
2012
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Into the Grizzly Maze
2015
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
2016
Entourage
2015
Immediate Family
2022
Cut Bank
2014
The Judge
2014
Floundering
1994
The First Boys of Spring
2016
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
(Inside Out): Warren Zevon
2003
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
Going Overboard
1989
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
Love Actually
2003
CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery
2000
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
Bad Santa 2
2016
Out There
1995
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
Dead Man
1995
Puss in Boots
2011
Hunter's Blood
1986
Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
2013
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
2009
South of Reno
1988
A Million Little Pieces
2019
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed: Live In Austin
2015
ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas
2019
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
2022
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
2020
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
2020
2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film
2006
The Last Real Cowboys
2000
The Dark Backward
1991
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man
2020
The Gray Man
2022
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
Hollywood.Con
2021
For the Boys
1991
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
2024
Directing (5 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| One False Move | 1991 | Writer |
| Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade | 1994 | Writer |
| A Family Thing | 1996 | Writer |
| Don't Look Back | 1996 | Writer |
| Sling Blade | 1996 | Screenplay |
| The Gift | 2000 | Screenplay |
| All the Pretty Horses | 2000 | Producer |
| Camouflage | 2001 | Screenplay |
| Daddy and Them | 2001 | Writer |
| Jayne Mansfield's Car | 2013 | Screenplay |