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.
152 acting credits · 7 directing credits
Acting · 152
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
American Dad!
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Fargo
2014
King of the Hill
1997
The Big Bang Theory
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The View
1997
Knots Landing
1979
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Landman
2024
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Matlock
1986
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Harley Quinn
2019
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Goliath
2016
1883
2021
The Oscars
1953
CatDog
1998
Classic Albums
1997
Armageddon
1998
Hearts Afire
1992
Evening Shade
1990
The Gray Man
2022
Puss in Boots
2011
Love Actually
2003
The Electric State
2025
Today
1952
Tombstone
1993
The Outsiders
1990
Indecent Proposal
1993
Parkland
2013
Bound by Honor
1993
Eagle Eye
2008
The Judge
2014
Faster
2010
CMT Music Awards
2002
Norm Macdonald Live
2013
HypaSpace
2002
Bad Santa
2003
Entourage
2015
Dead Man
1995
Bandits
2001
U Turn
1997
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
A Simple Plan
1998
Pushing Tin
1999
The Early Show
1999
Monster's Ball
2001
London Fields
2018
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
Into the Grizzly Maze
2015
The Informers
2008
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
On Deadly Ground
1994
Friday Night Lights
2004
Bad News Bears
2005
Bad Santa 2
2016
Sling Blade
1996
Primary Colors
1998
This Morning
1988
The Alamo
2004
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
The Astronaut Farmer
2007
The Badge
2002
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Cut Bank
2014
A Million Little Pieces
2019
Hunter's Blood
1986
School for Scoundrels
2006
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
The Baytown Outlaws
2012
One False Move
1991
Mr. Woodcock
2007
Homegrown
1998
Floundering
1994
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
The Apostle
1997
Levity
2003
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
2020
Daddy and Them
2001
For the Boys
1991
Chrystal
2004
The Ice Harvest
2005
Out There
1995
Going Overboard
1989
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
Devil's Peak
2023
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
1993
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
Don't Look Back
1996
South of Heaven, West of Hell
2000
Grey Knight
1993
The Dark Backward
1991
Untouchable
2019
Waking Up in Reno
2002
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
2024
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
2020
The Winner
1996
Trouble Bound
1993
If These Walls Could Rock
2025
The Smell of Success
2011
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
1989
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1994
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas
2019
This Week in Baseball
1977
Immediate Family
2022
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
1997
CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery
2000
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man
2020
Dislecksia: The Movie
2011
South of Reno
1988
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005
Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
2026
Nashville Rises
2011
Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
2013
Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"
2002
2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season
2006
Somedays
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Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton
2012
Temple of Art
2018
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
2016
The Last Real Cowboys
2000
Hollywood.Con
2021
Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
2009
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed
2015
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
The First Boys of Spring
2016
Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
2003
Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
2022
NFL: Favre 4 Ever
2006
IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD
2016
2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film
2006
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
2010
