Bill Thurman
출생 : 1920-11-04, Texas, USA
사망 : 1995-04-13
약력
Character actor Bill Thurman was born on November 4, 1920 in Texas. A large, rugged, stocky man with a hard, lined, puffy face, a deep, twangy, amicable voice, a strong, bulky build and a charmingly low-key and down-to-earth unaffected natural screen presence, Thurman often portrayed police officers and assorted scruffy redneck types in a huge number of entertainingly cheap'n'cheesy Southern-fried fright flicks and delightfully down'n'dirty drive-in fare made throughout the 60s and 70s. Bill frequently acted in features for legendary Grade Z low-budget independent filmmaker Larry Buchanan; said movies include "The Eye Creatures," "High Yellow," "Zontar the Thing from Venus," "Mars Needs Women," "Curse of the Swamp Creature," "In the Year 2889," the especially atrocious "It's Alive!," and "A Bullet for Pretty Boy." Moreover, Thurman had bit parts in two Steven Spielberg films: he's a hillbilly hunter in "The Sugerland Express" and an air traffic controller in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Bill's other memorable roles include the abusive Coach Popper in Peter Bogdanovich's magnificent "The Last Picture Show," a doomed hitchhiker in "Keep My Grave Open," a corrupt sheriff in the Claudia Jennings exploitation classic "'Gatorbait," a mean small town deputy in "Ride in A Pink Car," a more amiable sheriff in the fantastic Bigfoot winner "Creature from Black Lake," Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith's father in "Slumber Party '57," a priest in "The Evictors," and the boozy, dissolute Reverend Bill McWiley in the enjoyably crummy "Mountaintop Motel Massacre." Bill Thurman died in Dallas, Texas on April 13, 1995. - IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders
Old Man Bolen
Virgil Kidder hasn't been in Waco for quite a spell, but now that he's back in town clowning in the rodeo, his troubles are catching up with him quicker than a Brahma bull. Country star Dwight Yoakam makes his leading role debut as Kidder, a "painted hero" who's at his best - and safest - when he's taunting the meanest bulls in the business. It's only when the paint comes off that the real danger strikes on a wild Waco weekend filled with thrills, spills and more twists than an eight second bull ride.
Virgil Teague
The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
Jeb Kline
Hawken is a rugged drifter and loner who meets and comes to rescue a young Shawnee woman, named Spirit in 1840s Tennessee, whom he leaves after saving her from a rouge group of Shawnee Indians. After taking up residence with an old fur trapper and old friend named Jeb Kline, Hawken later meets Spirit again whom runs away from a local fur trader named Tackett, whom she is sold to. Soon, Hawken is up against Tackett and a posse of hired killers, as well as a greedy and racist land owner, named Hickman, who's long abused son Noel whom narrates the entire story, comes to his and Spirit's aid to help them survive.
Carter
총잡이 에메트와 페이든은 사막 한목판에서 만난 후 에메트의 누님 일가가 살고 있는 실버라도로 가기로 의기투합한다. 여행 도중 흑인 총잡이 맬을 통해 에메트의 아우 제이크가 교수형을 당할 것이라는 소식을 듣고 멜과 합세하여 제이크를 구출해 준다. 네 사람의 일행은 무법자의 무리들을 도중에 만나나 교묘한 방법으로 악당들을 따돌린 후 그들이 빼앗은 돈을 한나라는 여자에게 돌려준다. 그러나 실버라도가 가까워지자 네사람은 서로 갈라지게 된다. 에메트와 제이크는 누님집으로 가고, 페이든은 한나를 보호하면서 새로운 개척지로 향했으나 그곳에는 악덕 목장주 막켄드리크가 도사리고 있었다. 다시 힘을 합치는 네 사람. 분노와 우정으로 뭉친 그들의 장렬한 공격이 시작된 것이다.
Bailiff
An aging motor-cross racer, already having lost his wife and daughter to his footlooseness and now about to have his semi-tractor cab repossessed, vows to make one last go of it on his bike in the race of his career.
Sheriff
월남전이 끝난 후 많은 월남 난민이 새로운 삶을 찾아 미국으로 망명한다. 텍사스주 멕시코만 연안의 알라모 항에는 월남 난민촌이 형성된다. 알라모의 베트남 난민촌을 찾아온 베트남 청년 딘은 월리의 수산회사에서 일하게 된다. 월리의 딸 글로리는 아버지 사업을 돕기 위해 고향에 왔다가, 옛애인 셍을 만나 다시 사귀지 시작한다. 새우잡이를 생업으로 하는 어부인 셍은 자금난에 몰려 어선을 압류당한다. 셍은 새우잡이의 불황을 베트남인들 탓으로 여기고 그들을 고용한 월리를 증오한다. 미국 남부의 뿌리깊은 백인우월주의 비밀결사 KKK단의 선동을 받은 셍과 그의 친구들은 조직적으로 베트남인들의 생필품 구매를 막고 어민들의 조업을 방해하고, 딘의 배를 불태우는 등 실력행사를 한다. 셍과 그의 일당들은 여기에 그치지 않고 베트남 난민들을 알라모에서 쫓아낸다.
Jim Gardner
A woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes.
Reverend Bill McWiley
After several years in an insane asylum, Evelyn, the keeper of the Mountaintop Motel, is released and resumes doing business. She kills her young charge out of anger, but convinces the police it was an accident - and pushed into insanity, she then proceeds to target her guests, first by releasing vermin into their rooms, but then by using her trusty sickle.
Floyd
A middle-age man, in small-town Middle America, lives a momentous year in the mid-20th century.
Sheriff
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town.
Pilot #1
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
Ora Haley
명사수 톰 혼(스티브 맥퀸)은 총솜씨와 의협심을 인정받아 목장주 존 코블에게 고용된다. 톰 혼은 목장을 습격하는 악당들을 격퇴하는 등 눈부신 활약을 하자 연방 보안관 벨과 그 지역 유지들은 톰을 시기하여 톰 혼에게 소년을 죽였다는 누명을 씌우는데...
Preacher Higgins
In the 1940s, a young couple moves into a remote house near a small town in Louisiana. The house has a history of violence that seems to be repeating itself…
Carl Evans
A careening tanker truck rips through the fence of a wild animal park, unleashing an untamed force of nature on an unsuspecting community. Bison, zebras, camels, antelopes and ostriches stampede down the highway. Elephants and rhinos crush cars. A panther terrorizes a family's pet dog. A tiger turns a fleeing bystander into helpless prey. A lion prowls near a home. A local amusement park becomes an arena for a vicious bear-vs.-tiger clash. As park rangers and local cops scramble to recapture the escaped animals, two trigger-happy good ol' boys decide to go big-game hunting. Carol Lynley, who fought her way through an upside-down luxury liner in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, returns to the disaster-pic genre as a dedicated veterinarian thrust into the forefront of the people vs. beasts panic. Also in the cast: Philip Michael Thomas before he shot to fame in MIAMI VICE.
Air Traffic
UFO로 추정되는 존재들이 세계 곳곳에 남긴 흔적들이 발견되고 일단의 과학자들이 이를 추적하는 가운데, 인디아나에 사는 로이는 정전을 조사하다 우연히 UFO를 목격한다. 그 날 이후 로리는 UFO에 관한 기사를 모으고, 희미하게 머리 속에 떠오르는 형상을 찰흙으로 빚기도 한다. 한편 전세계의 과학자들은 라콤 박사의 지도하에 외계인과 통신할수 있는 음악 코드를 개발하고 그들과의 접촉을 시도한다. 그 위치는 와이오밍에 있는 데블스 타워였고, 정부는 비밀 유지를 위해 지역 주민들을 모두 대피시킨다. 뉴스를 통해 이를 알게 된 로니는 봉쇄된 도로를 뚫고 데빌스 타워로 향하는데...
Sgt. Bond
Comedy - During WWI, the Germans try to encourage certain Mexican guerrillas to make trouble on the Texas border. Masterminding the plot is a German spy who has, at his disposal, the RX4... a specially equipped weapon-bearing automobile of awesome speed. But a U.S. Army lieutenant carries the day with his own fleet of Model T racers. - John David Carson, Carol Bagdasarian, Louis Nye
The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
Mr. Willis
In 1957, a group of high school girls spending the night in a mansion tell each other about their first sexual experiences.
Sheriff Billy Carter
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.
Deke
Dan Gordon arrives in town on the edge of the Florida Everglades, planning to take part in a drug smuggling operation. He's aided by his friend, Mule Tucker, but runs into opposition from corrupt local cops.
Hitchhiker
A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.
Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas
Desirée lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. After an accident involving Deputy Billy and a friend, the Sheriff, Deputy and a family of locals go after Desirée. Soon the hunters become the hunted as she exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.
Barlow
A man, thought to be dead, returns to his hometown in Florida. He finds his wife re-married and the town now ruled by corrupt forces.
Sam Bellington
Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for two years to achieve his dream of buying two red-bone coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in life as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure and tragedy roaming the river bottoms of Cherokee country with his dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann.
Hunter
텍사스 교도소에 수감되어 있는 클로비스에게 아내인 루 진이 면회를 온다. 루 진은 클로비스에게 자신들이 가난하고 돈벌이가 마땅치 않다는 이유로 정부에서 아이를 부잣집에 입양하려 한다는 소식을 전한다. 클로비스는 형기를 거의 마치고 4개월 후면 출소할 상황이라 탈옥할 이유가 없었지만 이대로 있으면 아이를 영영 찾지 못한다는 진의 절박한 설득에 못 이겨 탈옥을 감행한 후 아이를 찾아 슈가랜드로 여정을 떠난다. 그런 와중에 이들 부부는 자신들을 추적하는 경찰을 인질로 잡아서 아이들만 찾으면 경찰관을 풀어주겠다는 협정을 맺는다. 어설픈 현상금 사냥꾼이 나타나고 매스컴의 주목을 끌면서 슈가랜드로 향하는 여정은 점점 시끌벅적해진다. 반면에 이들을 지지하는 사람들도 하나 둘 생기고 인질로 붙잡힌 경찰관과 이들 부부사이에 ‘스톡홀름 신드롬’이라 일컬어지는 묘한 동질감이 생겨나는데...
Second Man
Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother forecasts the deaths of the three young men she holds responsible, on 7, 14, and 21 days hence. And, one by one, her grim predictions come true. Next, a ghoulish sound emanates from a mist-shrouded hole in the Earth near where a Missouri boy has lost his dog. The boy's father is lowered into the hole and lets out an agonizing scream! Finally, a senator returning home from a party finds a lost girl on a bridge and learns from her father that she died years earlier
Jed Bartrum
A young man arrives at the town of Fair Play to see his uncle. What he finds upon arriving is a town hiding a secret from any outsiders. The young man must uncover the truth the townspeople wish to keep hidden in order to save his uncle.
Coach Popper
1950년대 텍사스의 작은 마을 애너린. 소니와 듀안은 절친한 친구 사이다. 소년기와 청년기 사이의 어정쩡한 시기를 견뎌내며, 두 친구는 영화관과 농구, 여자애들 속에서 나름대로 즐겁게 지내고 있다. 그러나 마을 사람들은 보다 나은 삶을 위해, 또는 아이들의 교육을 위해 대도시로 떠나가고, 애너린은 조용히 죽어가는 마을이다. 소년들은 마을을 벗어나 어디엔가 기다리고 있을 화려한 미래를 향해 달려 가야할 지, 그들의 정신적인 지주이자 친구인 은퇴한 카우보이 샘 라이언이 유산으로 물려준 황폐한 풀장과 낡은 영화관을 운영하며 마을에 남아야 할지 고민에 빠진다.
Huddy
A biography of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a gangster who started his career at a young age after seeking revenge for his father's murder.
Tim Henderson
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against an attack by a mutant cannibal.
Greely / Monster
A farmer traps three people in a cave with his pet prehistoric monster.
Drunk on Pier
Tommy Kirk leads his fellow Martians to Earth on an interplanetary quest for females. Kirk proves that Martians have impeccable taste when one of his first conquests turns out to be sexy scientist Yvonne Craig.
Driscoll West / The Swamp Creature
A mad scientist is conducting experiments with evolution on the locals deep in the rural swamps of Texas.
Tex
In Italy during World War II, an American headquarters is evacuated when German forces break through the front lines. A demolition squad is sent back to the abandoned headquarters to destroy valuable records that were left behind before they fall into German hands.
Sheriff Brad Crenshaw
A misguided scientist enables an alien from Venus named Zontar to come to earth in order to "help solve man's problems". However, as soon as Zontar arrives on Earth, it quickly becomes obvious that the three-eyed, bat-winged, skeletal black creature has a hidden agenda.
Deputy Ben Whitfield
A government space experiment into the effects of cosmic rays on animal life goes horribly wrong, creating a mutant monster that terrorizes a rural community.
Sergeant
A teenager and his girlfriend must save the world from "eye" aliens after their attempts to convince authorities of an invasion fall on deaf ears.
Lt. Lang
The story of the country virgin who became queen of the innersprings...
Western by Larry Buchanan.
Abel
A policeman's wife becomes a drug addict and goes to work at the dreaded "Club Lesbo;" an affiliation run by gangsters. A haunted devil mask also figures into the, er, um, plot.
Key Grip
A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.
Bartender
A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.
Railroad Tough
Backwoods bombshell Myrtle marries George, only to find out that George neither can nor wants to satisfy her desires. Lots of heavy breathing, roughing-up and weirdo moralism ensues.
Major Bates
Cynthia Wood, a 17-year-old, light-skinned black girl, tries to pass off as white after getting hired of a wealthy movie magnate Mr. Langley who has family problems with his spoiled wife and his promiscuous teenage daughter and son.
Witness
The Dallas trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, is enacted as it might have occurred. After the defense enters pleas of "not guilty" and "not guilty by reason of insanity," 23 witnesses for the prosecution testify. No verdict is returned.
