Billy Bob Thornton
Birthday: 1955-08-04
Place of Birth: Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
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.
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Armageddon
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to ...
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Monster's Ball
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he pr...
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Bad Santa
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've...
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The Badge
A sheriff begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high rank...
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U Turn
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he b...
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A Simple Plan
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts ...
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Bandits
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and Cali...
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The Alamo
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bow...
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The Apostle
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana...
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The Man Who Wasn't There
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small Cali...
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Indecent Proposal
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night...
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Levity
Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted...
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Waking Up in Reno
Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's ma...
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One False Move
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- ...
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The Astronaut Farmer
Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. L...
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Intolerable Cruelty
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making...
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Tombstone
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue...
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South of Heaven, West of Hell
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900s. On Christmas Eve, ...
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The Ice Harvest
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. Bu...
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Primary Colors
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White Hous...
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Pushing Tin
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several ...
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Daddy and Them
Ruby and her husband Claude are a working-class couple who live in suburban Arkansas. As crazy as th...
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Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
Riding around on their motorbikes, a gang of tough women bikers are the only thing that stands betwe...
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Eagle Eye
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a m...
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Sling Blade
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since t...
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Mr. Woodcock
Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her ...
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On Deadly Ground
Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's co...
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Chrystal
Many years after a devastating accident that took the life of his only son and permanently injured h...
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School for Scoundrels
In the hope of winning the woman of his dreams, Amanda, lovelorn meter-reader Roger Wadell enrolls i...
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Bad News Bears
Morris Buttermaker is a burned-out minor league baseball player who loves to drink and can't keep hi...
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Bound by Honor
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Pa...
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Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
25 years after committing a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution...
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Friday Night Lights
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degre...
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Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and...
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Faster
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people res...
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A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
In this homage to film noir, a wheelchair bound (Jim Metzler) paraplegic fantasizes about the new bl...
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The Smell of Success
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livel...
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Untouchable
The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquired and...
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Dislecksia: The Movie
Dislecksia: The Movie, dyslexic director Harvey Hubbell V and crew explore Hubbell's own experiences...
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The Informers
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the liv...
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Homegrown
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they ...
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Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (197...
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Devil's Peak
In North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing...
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Don't Look Back
Los Angeles heroin addict Jesse endangers the lives of his childhood friends after he discovers a br...
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Grey Knight
During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers accidentally free an evil voodoo entity brought back by s...
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The Baytown Outlaws
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become t...
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Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
Life in space. Beam-ins. Intergalactic war. What about getting a driver's license or doing the laund...
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Trouble Bound
Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them ag...
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Jayne Mansfield's Car
Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different fa...
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Nashville Rises
Nashville Rises is the first documentary film about the city of Nashville, Tennessee's response to t...
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Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
Starting with the image of a tour bus warming its engine in the stillness of an empty lot, this haun...
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The Winner
A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, an...
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Temple of Art
A documentary that explores what it means to be an artist and why it's important to pursue your pass...
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Parkland
November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F....
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London Fields
Clairvoyant femme fatale, Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death ...
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Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton
Why is it that Billy Bob Thornton, Dave Matthews, Peter Buck, Derek Trucks, Phish, Widespread Panic,...
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Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
Fellow actors and musicians, film critics, and his Kentucky relatives tell the story of noted charac...
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Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
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Into the Grizzly Maze
Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-da...
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What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
A documentary about the singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt...
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Entourage
Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys, Eric, Turtle and Johnny, are back…and back in busi...
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Immediate Family
If you listen to 1970s pop music, you’ve undoubtedly heard these guys play, but do you know their na...
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Cut Bank
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut...
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The Judge
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estra...
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Floundering
John Boyz lives close to where they film "Baywatch", but you'd never know it. His life is full of bi...
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The First Boys of Spring
For parts of five decades, the immortals of America's National Pastime trained on baseball diamonds ...
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox fi...
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(Inside Out): Warren Zevon
This documentary follows singer-songwriter Warren Zevon through his struggle with the cancer that wo...
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assig...
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Going Overboard
A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to...
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Our Brand Is Crisis
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American politica...
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Love Actually
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all se...
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21 Years: Richard Linklater
A journey through the professional life of innovative film director Richard Linklater: 21 years crea...
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Bad Santa 2
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marc...
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Out There
A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. A...
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, f...
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Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Arista's greatest recording artists of the last 25 years gather for this May 15th concert in honor o...
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Dead Man
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...
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Puss in Boots
Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero ...
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Hunter's Blood
Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally h...
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Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
Athletes and fans explore the impact of sports on the lives of Americans....
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Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
2008 Concert by Levon Helm at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville....
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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action fil...
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South of Reno
In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dream...
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NFL: Favre 4 Ever
Join narrator, Billy Bob Thornton, in taking a revealing look back at the life and legacy of the eig...
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A Million Little Pieces
A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing ...
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Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed
You thought the boys would actually sober up? Not until after they change the world....
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ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas
The story of how three oddball teenage bluesmen became one of the biggest, most beloved bands on the...
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion....
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Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
The Ventures are the biggest instrumental band in the world. This project was begun almost 10 years ...
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The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
Documentary film on the #1 instrumental rock group in the world, The Ventures. The story of their ri...
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Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
A 14-part documentary that explores the life and career of Billy Bob Thornton, chronicling his journ...
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Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
A tribute to the life and music of John Prine featuring family and friends sharing memories and song...
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2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film
St. Louis Cardinals Championship Season....
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The Last Real Cowboys
Around the classic 1800's Western campfire, Slope and Tar tangle about what's been, what will be, an...
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The Dark Backward
A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompani...
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Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man
It took his whole life to live and three full years to film Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man. Filmed in...
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The Gray Man
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopat...
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VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
The Who were honored at the 2008 ceremony from the Pauley Pavilion at UCLA instead of the usual Las ...
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Hollywood.Con
Every hot production company in Los Angeles is in a race to make the next big Mayan movie: hurry qui...
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For the Boys
Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over t...
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Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
Bubbles and his band, The Shitrockers, embark on a European rock tour and earn a spot opening for Bi...
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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 w...
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