Billy Bob Thornton
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: 04 August 1955
Played In
Movie
May 2026
Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
Movie
Nov 2025
If These Walls Could Rock
Movie
Mar 2025
The Electric State
Voice (uncredited)
Movie
Dec 2024
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
Self
TV Show
Nov 2024
Landman
Tommy Norris
Movie
Feb 2023
Devil's Peak
Charlie McNeely
Movie
Oct 2022
Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
Movie
Sep 2022
Immediate Family
Self
Movie
Jul 2022
The Gray Man
Fitzroy
TV Show
Dec 2021
1883
Marshal Jim Courtright
Movie
Jan 2021
Hollywood.Con
Boxmaster
Movie
Nov 2020
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man
Self
Movie
Jun 2020
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
Self
Movie
Feb 2020
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
TV Show
Nov 2019
Harley Quinn
Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
TV Show
Sep 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self - Guest
Movie
Aug 2019
A Million Little Pieces
Leonard
Movie
Jun 2019
Untouchable
Self (archive footage)
Movie
Jun 2019
ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas
Self
Movie
Dec 2018
Temple of Art
Self
Movie
Sep 2018
London Fields
Samson Young
Movie
Nov 2016
Bad Santa 2
Willie Soke
TV Show
Oct 2016
Goliath
Billy McBride
Movie
Oct 2016
IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD
Narrator
Movie
Aug 2016
The First Boys of Spring
Movie
Mar 2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
General Hollanek
Movie
Jan 2016
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
Self
Movie
Dec 2015
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed
Self
Movie
Sep 2015
Our Brand Is Crisis
Pat Candy
TV Show
Sep 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
TV Show
Aug 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Movie
Jun 2015
Entourage
Larsen McCredle
Movie
Feb 2015
Into the Grizzly Maze
Douglass
Movie
Jan 2015
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
Self - Actor / Director
TV Show
Dec 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Movie
Nov 2014
21 Years: Richard Linklater
Self - Actor
Movie
Oct 2014
The Judge
Dwight Dickham
Movie
Oct 2014
Cut Bank
Stan Steeley
TV Show
Apr 2014
Fargo
Lorne Malvo
TV Show
Apr 2014
Fargo
Narrator (voice)
TV Show
Feb 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
TV Show
Feb 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
TV Show
Feb 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
Movie
Nov 2013
Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
Self
Movie
Oct 2013
Parkland
Forrest Sorrels
Movie
Jul 2013
Jayne Mansfield's Car
Skip Caldwell
TV Show
Mar 2013
Norm Macdonald Live
Self
Movie
Aug 2012
The Baytown Outlaws
Carlos
Movie
Mar 2012
Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton
Self
Movie
Oct 2011
Puss in Boots
Jack (voice)
Movie
Oct 2011
Dislecksia: The Movie
Self
Movie
Aug 2011
The Smell of Success
Patrick
Movie
Mar 2011
Nashville Rises
Narrator
Movie
Feb 2011
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Movie
Nov 2010
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
Self
Movie
Nov 2010
Faster
Cop
Movie
Jul 2009
Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
Self
Movie
Nov 2008
The Informers
William Sloan
Movie
Sep 2008
Eagle Eye
Thomas Morgan
Movie
Jul 2008
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
Self
Movie
Jan 2008
Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock”
Self
Movie
Jan 2008
Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales
Self
TV Show
Sep 2007
The Big Bang Theory
Oliver Lorvis
Movie
Sep 2007
Mr. Woodcock
Jasper Woodcock
Movie
May 2007
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
Self
Movie
Feb 2007
The Astronaut Farmer
Charles Farmer
Movie
Nov 2006
2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season
Narrator
Movie
Oct 2006
2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film
Narrator
Movie
Oct 2006
NFL: Favre 4 Ever
Narrator (voice)
Movie
Sep 2006
School for Scoundrels
Dr. P
TV Show
May 2006
VH1 Rock Honors
Movie
Nov 2005
The Ice Harvest
Vic
Movie
Jul 2005
Bad News Bears
Morris Buttermaker
Movie
Jun 2005
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
Self
TV Show
Feb 2005
American Dad!
Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
TV Show
Jan 2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Self
Movie
Oct 2004
Friday Night Lights
Coach Gary Gaines
Movie
Sep 2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
Movie
Jul 2004
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self
Movie
Apr 2004
The Alamo
Davy Crockett
Movie
Feb 2004
Chrystal
Joe
Movie
Nov 2003
Bad Santa
Willie
Movie
Oct 2003
Intolerable Cruelty
Howard D. Doyle
Movie
Sep 2003
Love Actually
The US President
Movie
Aug 2003
Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
Narrator
TV Show
Jun 2003
Celebrities Uncensored
Self
Movie
Mar 2003
Levity
Manuel Jordan
TV Show
Feb 2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
TV Show
Jan 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
TV Show
Jan 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self
Movie
Dec 2002
Waking Up in Reno
Lonnie Earl Dodd
Movie
Sep 2002
The Badge
Sheriff Darl
TV Show
Jun 2002
CMT Music Awards
Self - Presenter
TV Show
May 2002
HypaSpace
Self
Movie
Apr 2002
Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"
Self
Movie
Dec 2001
Monster's Ball
Hank Grotowski
Movie
Oct 2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
Ed Crane
Movie
Oct 2001
Daddy and Them
Claude Montgomery
Movie
Oct 2001
Bandits
Terry Lee Collins
Movie
Nov 2000
CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery
Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice)
Movie
Aug 2000
The Last Real Cowboys
Tar
Movie
Jun 2000
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Self
Movie
Jan 2000
South of Heaven, West of Hell
Brig. Smalls
TV Show
Nov 1999
The Early Show
Self
Movie
Apr 1999
Pushing Tin
Russell Bell
Movie
Dec 1998
A Simple Plan
Jacob Mitchell
Movie
Jul 1998
Armageddon
Dan Truman
Movie
Apr 1998
Homegrown
Jack Marsden
TV Show
Apr 1998
CatDog
CatDog's Father (voice)
Movie
Mar 1998
Primary Colors
Richard Jemmons
Movie
Feb 1998
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Self
Movie
Dec 1997
The Apostle
Troublemaker
Movie
Oct 1997
U Turn
Darrell
TV Show
Aug 1997
The View
Self
Movie
Jun 1997
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
Syd / Monk
TV Show
Apr 1997
Classic Albums
Self
TV Show
Jan 1997
King of the Hill
Boyce Hubert (voice)
Movie
Sep 1996
The Winner
Jack
Movie
Aug 1996
Sling Blade
Karl Childers
TV Show
Jul 1996
The Daily Show
Self
Movie
Jul 1996
Don't Look Back
Marshall
Movie
Dec 1995
Dead Man
Big George Drakoulious
Movie
Nov 1995
Out There
Jailbird
Movie
Sep 1995
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
Roy
Movie
Nov 1994
Floundering
Gun Clerk
TV Show
Aug 1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
Movie
Mar 1994
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
Karl Childers
Movie
Feb 1994
On Deadly Ground
Homer Carlton
Movie
Dec 1993
Tombstone
Johnny Tyler
TV Show
Sep 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Movie
Apr 1993
Indecent Proposal
Day Tripper
Movie
Mar 1993
Grey Knight
Langston
Movie
Feb 1993
Bound by Honor
Lightning
Movie
Jan 1993
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Rowdy Udall
Movie
Jan 1993
Trouble Bound
Coldface
TV Show
Sep 1992
Hearts Afire
Billy Bob Davis
TV Show
May 1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Self
Movie
May 1992
One False Move
Ray Malcolm
Movie
Nov 1991
For the Boys
Marine Sergeant, Korea
Movie
Jul 1991
The Dark Backward
Patron at Sloppy's
TV Show
Sep 1990
Evening Shade
Alvin
TV Show
Mar 1990
The Outsiders
Buck Merrill
Movie
May 1989
Going Overboard
Dave
Movie
Apr 1989
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
Tommy
TV Show
Oct 1988
This Morning
Self - Guest
TV Show
Sep 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV Show
Sep 1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Movie
Apr 1988
South of Reno
Counterman
Movie
Jan 1988
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Self - Audience Member
Movie
Sep 1986
Hunter's Blood
Billy Bob
TV Show
Mar 1986
Matlock
Pawnshop Clerk
TV Show
Dec 1979
Knots Landing
Timberman
TV Show
Apr 1977
This Week in Baseball
TV Show
Oct 1975
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
TV Show
Mar 1953
The Oscars
Self
TV Show
Jan 1952
Today
Self
TV Show
Jan 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
Movie
Somedays