Bill Thurman: Bill Thurman. Actor: Silverado. Character actor Bill Thurman was born on November 4, 1920 in Texas. A large, rugged, stocky man with a hard, lined, puffy face, a deep, twangy, amicable voice, a strong, bulky build, and a charmingly low-key and down-to-earth unaffected natural screen presence, Thurman often portrayed police officers and assorted scruffy redneck types in a huge number of entertainingly cheap'n'cheesy Southern-fried fright flicks and delightfully down'n'dirty drive-in...
Known For: Silverado (Carter), The Last Picture Show (Coach Popper), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Air Traffic), 'Gator Bait (Sheriff Joe Bob Thomas)