Billy Bob Thornton
Acting
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.
Born: August 4, 1955
Place of Birth: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
Known For
(Inside Out): Warren Zevon
This documentary follows singer-songwriter Warren Zevon through his struggle with the cancer that would later kill him in 2003. Despite his debilitating disease, Zevon worked feverishly to complete his emotional final album, "The Wind." The creation of this album was an amazing endeavor that's also chronicled here. Hosted by Billy Bob Thornton, the program features interviews with Jackson Browne, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood, among others.
CMT Music Awards
The CMT Music Awards is a fan-voted awards show for country music videos and television performances. The awards ceremony is held every year in Nashville, Tennessee, and broadcast live on CMT. Voting takes place on CMT's website, CMT.com.
2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season
This DVD tells the story of the men who made the season memorable -- the players and personalities who made the first season at Busch Stadium unforgettable. The surprising rookies and reliable veterans, the superstars and the role-players, the fan favorites and the late-season new faces, are all saluted here, in a tribute to the heroes who brought Baseball Heaven to life and a joyful Cardinals Nation to its feet in 2006.
Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn has finally broken things off once and for all with the Joker. Now, she's trying to make it on her own as the criminal Queenpin of Gotham City, with help from Poison Ivy and a ragtag crew of DC castoffs.
Fargo
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
Fargo
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
1883
Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of Western expansion, and an intense study of one family fleeing poverty to seek a better future in America’s promised land — Montana.
Bound by Honor
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", and the story focuses on how a violent crime and the influence of narcotics alter their lives. Miklo is incarcerated and sent to San Quentin, where he makes a "home" for himself. Cruz becomes an exceptional artist, but a heroin addiction overcomes him with tragic results. Paco becomes a cop and an enemy to his "carnal", Miklo.
Landman
Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West-Texas and a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires that are fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.
Nashville Rises
Nashville Rises is the first documentary film about the city of Nashville, Tennessee's response to the 2010 Tennessee floods. It premiered at the 42nd Nashville Film Festival on April 14, 2011 and received the festival's "Ground Zero Tennessee Spirit Award for Best Short Documentary Film". The film was narrated by Billy Bob Thornton and directed by Zac Adams.
Filmography
as Tommy Norris
as Charlie McNeely
as Self
as Fitzroy
as Marshal Jim Courtright
as Boxmaster
as Self
as Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
as Self - Guest
as Leonard
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Samson Young
as Willie Soke
as Billy McBride
as Narrator
as General Hollanek
as Pat Candy
as Larsen McCredle
as Douglass
as Self - Actor / Director
as Self - Actor
as Dwight Dickham
as Stan Steeley
as Lorne Malvo
as Narrator (voice)
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Self - Guest
as Forrest Sorrels
as Skip Caldwell
as Self
as Carlos
as Jack (voice)
as Self
as Patrick
as Narrator
as Cop
as William Sloan
as Thomas Morgan
as Self
as Oliver Lorvis
as Jasper Woodcock
as Charles Farmer
as Dr. P
as Vic
as Morris Buttermaker
as Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
as Coach Gary Gaines
as Other Voices (voice)
as Davy Crockett
as Joe
as Willie
as Howard D. Doyle
as The US President
as Narrator
as Self
as Manuel Jordan
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Lonnie Earl Dodd
as Sheriff Darl
as Self - Presenter
as Hank Grotowski
as Ed Crane
as Claude Montgomery
as Terry Lee Collins
as Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice)
as Tar
as Brig. Smalls
as Self
as Russell Bell
as Jacob Mitchell
as Dan Truman
as Jack Marsden
as Father (voice)
as Richard Jemmons
as Troublemaker
as Darrell
as Self
as Syd / Monk
as Self
as Boyce Hubert (voice)
as Jack
as Karl Childers
as Self
as Marshall
as Big George Drakoulious
as Jailbird
as Gun Clerk
as Self
as Karl Childers
as Homer Carlton
as Johnny Tyler
as Self - Guest
as Day Tripper
as Langston
as Lightning
as Coldface
as Billy Bob Davis
as Marine Sergeant, Korea
as Ray Malcolm
as Patron at Sloppy's
as Alvin
as Buck Merrill
as Dave
as Tommy
as Self - Guest
as Self - Guest
as Counterman
as Self - Audience Member
as Billy Bob
as Pawnshop Clerk
as Timberman
as Self - Host
as Self
as Self
as Self - Nominee