Billy Bob Thornton
Known for: Acting
Born: August 4, 1955
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 Armag…
Known for
Monster's Ball
2001
Bad Santa
2003
The Badge
2002
A Simple Plan
1998
The Man Who Wasn't There
2001
Levity
2003
The Astronaut Farmer
2007
Daddy and Them
2001
Sling Blade
1996
Mr. Woodcock
2007
Chrystal
2004
Bad News Bears
2005
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1994
Friday Night Lights
2004
The Smell of Success
2011
Dislecksia: The Movie
2011
The Informers
2008
Devil's Peak
2023
Nashville Rises
2011
London Fields
2018
The First Boys of Spring
2016
Bad Santa 2
2016
Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
2005
2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film
2006
The Last Real Cowboys
2000
2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season
2006
Somedays
IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD
2016
If These Walls Could Rock
2025
Armageddon
1998
Bandits
2001
The Alamo
2004
South of Heaven, West of Hell
2000
The Ice Harvest
2005
Pushing Tin
1999
School for Scoundrels
2006
Faster
2010
Homegrown
1998
Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart
2003
NFL: Favre 4 Ever
2006
A Million Little Pieces
2019
The Ventures: Stars on Guitars
2020
One False Move
1992
Waking Up in Reno
2002
Primary Colors
1998
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
2016
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures
2022
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007
Don't Look Back
1996
Temple of Art
2018
Parkland
2013
Making "The Man Who Wasn't There"
2002
Puss in Boots
2011
The Gray Man
2022
Grey Knight
1993
Cut Bank
2014
ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas
2019
Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties
2024
Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
2026
The Apostle
1997
Indecent Proposal
1993
Trouble Bound
1993
Into the Grizzly Maze
2015
CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery
2000
U Turn
1997
Eagle Eye
2008
On Deadly Ground
1994
A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
1997
Jayne Mansfield's Car
2013
The Winner
1996
The Judge
2014
Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration
2000
Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine
2020
Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man
2020
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
The Baytown Outlaws
2012
The Dark Backward
1991
Hollywood.Con
2021
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
2010
The Stars Fell on Henrietta
1995
Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman
2009
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed
2015
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
Sport in America: Our Defining Stories
2013
South of Reno
1988
Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun
1993
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
2016
Going Overboard
1989
Out There
1995
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown
1989
Bound by Honor
1993
Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton
2012
Immediate Family
2022
Hunter's Blood
1986
Untouchable
2019
Entourage
2015
Dead Man
1995
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
2015
VH1 Rock Honors: The Who
2008
Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock”
2008
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales
2008
Tombstone
1993
Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
1988
Love Actually
2003
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
Floundering
1994
For the Boys
1991
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
The Electric State
2025
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
The Daily Show
1996
Matlock
1986
Today
1952
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The View
1997
The Early Show
1999
HypaSpace
2002
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Hearts Afire
1992
Knots Landing
1979
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
This Week in Baseball
1977
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
The Oscars
1953
Saturday Night Live
1975
Fargo
2014
Norm Macdonald Live
2013
The Big Bang Theory
2007
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Goliath
2016
Landman
2024
CatDog
1998
Harley Quinn
2019
1883
2021
Classic Albums
1997
King of the Hill
1997
American Dad!
2005
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
The Outsiders
1990
This Morning
1988
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Evening Shade
1990
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
CMT Music Awards
2002