A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Reginald Perry
Μπίλι Μπομπ Θόρτον
Билли Боб Торнтон
빌리 밥 손튼
Birthplace:
Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
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 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.
Director:
1996 Sling Blade
2000 All the Pretty Horses
2001 Daddy and Them
2011 The King of Luck
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
Producer:
1996 Sling Blade
2000 All the Pretty Horses
2001 Daddy and Them
2011 The King of Luck
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
Screenplay:
1996 Sling Blade
2000 All the Pretty Horses
2000 The Gift
2001 Camouflage
2001 Daddy and Them
2011 The King of Luck
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
Story:
1996 Don't Look Back
1996 Sling Blade
2000 All the Pretty Horses
2000 The Gift
2000 The Last Real Cowboys
2001 Camouflage
2001 Daddy and Them
2011 The King of Luck
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
Thanks:
1996 Don't Look Back
1996 Sling Blade
2000 All the Pretty Horses
2000 The Gift
2000 The Last Real Cowboys
2001 Camouflage
2001 Daddy and Them
2010 Small Town Saturday Night
2011 The King of Luck
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
Theatre Play:
1996 Don't Look Back
1996 Sling Blade
2000 All the Pretty Horses
2000 The Gift
2000 The Last Real Cowboys
2001 Camouflage
2001 Daddy and Them
2010 Small Town Saturday Night
2011 The King of Luck
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
Writer:
1992 One False Move
1994 Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
1996 A Family Thing
1996 Don't Look Back
1996 Sling Blade
2000 All the Pretty Horses
2000 The Gift
2000 The Last Real Cowboys
2001 Camouflage
2001 Daddy and Them
2010 Small Town Saturday Night
2011 The King of Luck
2013 Jayne Mansfield's Car
Director:
2016 Goliath
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.