Bill Thurman
Nascimento : 1920-11-04, Texas, USA
Morte : 1995-04-13
História
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
Estrelado por Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover e Kevin Costner como os quatro heróis involuntários que têm em seu caminho a esquecida Silverado, a cidade em que seus pais vivem e que foi tomada por um xerife corrupto e por um cruel ladrão de terras. Está em suas habilidades com as armas a salvação da cidade. Mas primeiro eles têm que tirar uns os outros da cadeia e aprender quem são seus verdadeiros amigos. Graças ao seu visual autêntico e ao elenco espetacular que ainda inclui Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Goldblum e a ganhadora do Oscar, Linda Hunt (melhor atris coadjuvante em O Ano em Que Vivemos em Perigo, 1983), esta excitante aventura do Velho Oeste crua uma nova geração de fãs do Western e ganha o status de 'clássico moderno'.
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
Um desanimado veterano do Vietnã, que corre o risco de perder seu sustento, é levado ao limite quando vê imigrantes vietnamitas se mudando para a indústria pesqueira em uma cidade da baía do Texas.
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
Um famoso ex batedor do exército é contratado por fazendeiros para caçar ladrões, mas se vê sendo julgado pelo assassinato de um menino quando estava realizando o seu trabalho muito bem. Tom descobre que as habilidades simples que ele domina não são de nenhuma ajuda para lidar com as ambições de fazendeiros e funcionários corruptos e nem com a marcha do progresso sobre ele e o velho oeste.
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
Roy Neary, um empregado de uma companhia elétrica, é profundamente marcado pelo encontro com um OVNI, que lhe deixa uma queimadura na mão e o faz ficar obcecado com o fenómeno. Ao mesmo tempo que se sucedem diversos acontecimentos misteriosos pelo mundo, e que as autoridades dos EUA se mobilizam para um grande evento extraterrestre que querem que permaneça secreto, Roy e outras pessoas começam a ser inexplicavelmente atraídas para uma montanha no Wyomming, de onde todos os residentes são evacuados pelo Governo.
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
Baseado em fatos reais ocorridos no Texas em 1969. Lou Jean Poplin é uma mulher que ajuda o marido a fugir da prisão, para que juntos possam ir até Sugarland e recuperar o filho deles que foi adotado por um casal local. A fuga de ambos provoca uma caçada policial sem precedentes na história do Texas.
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
O amadurecimento de um jovem chamado Sonny em uma pequena cidade do Texas nos anos 50.
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
Após uma guerra nuclear ter destruído a maior parte da humanidade, um pequeno grupo de sobreviventes se reúne na segurança de um vale isolado. Mas seu refúgio está ameaçado por um monstro hediondo e mutante que espreita na floresta.
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.
