Billy Bob Thornton Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Billy Bob Thornton filmography covers 67 movie titles and 12 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Billy Bob Thornton movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Hunter's Blood (1986) as Billy Bob
• Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989) as Tommy
• Going Overboard (1989) as Dave
• For the Boys (1991) as Marine Sergeant, Korea
• The Dark Backward (1991) as Patron at Sloppy's
• One False Move (1992) as Ray Malcolm
• Bound by Honor (1993) as Lightning
• Indecent Proposal (1993) as Day Tripper
• Tombstone (1993) as Johnny Tyler
• Floundering (1994) as Gun Clerk
• On Deadly Ground (1994) as Homer Carlton
• Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994) as Karl Childers
• Dead Man (1995) as Big George Drakoulious
• Sling Blade (1996) as Karl Childers
• The Apostle (1997) as Troublemaker
• U Turn (1997) as Darrell
• A Simple Plan (1998) as Jacob Mitchell
• An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998) as Self
• Armageddon (1998) as Dan Truman
• Homegrown (1998) as Jack Marsden
• Primary Colors (1998) as Richard Jemmons
• Pushing Tin (1999) as Russell Bell
• South of Heaven, West of Hell (2000) as Brig. Smalls
• Bandits (2001) as Terry Lee Collins
• Daddy and Them (2001) as Claude Montgomery
• Monster's Ball (2001) as Hank Grotowski
• The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) as Ed Crane
• The Badge (2002) as Sheriff Darl
• Waking Up in Reno (2002) as Lonnie Earl Dodd
• Bad Santa (2003) as Willie
• Intolerable Cruelty (2003) as Howard D. Doyle
• Levity (2003) as Manuel Jordan
• Love Actually (2003) as The US President
• Chrystal (2004) as Joe
• Friday Night Lights (2004) as Coach Gary Gaines
• The Alamo (2004) as Davy Crockett
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) as Other Voices (voice)
• Bad News Bears (2005) as Morris Buttermaker
• The Ice Harvest (2005) as Vic
• School for Scoundrels (2006) as Dr. P
• Mr. Woodcock (2007) as Jasper Woodcock
• The Astronaut Farmer (2007) as Charles Farmer
• Eagle Eye (2008) as Thomas Morgan
• The Informers (2008) as William Sloan
• Faster (2010) as Cop
• Puss in Boots (2011) as Jack (voice)
• The Smell of Success (2011) as Patrick
• The Baytown Outlaws (2012) as Carlos
• Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013) as Skip Caldwell
• Parkland (2013) as Forrest Sorrels
• 21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014) as Self - Actor
• Cut Bank (2014) as Stan Steeley
• The Judge (2014) as Dwight Dickham
• Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015) as Self - Actor / Director
• Entourage (2015) as Larsen McCredle
• Into the Grizzly Maze (2015) as Douglass
• Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) as Pat Candy
• Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed (2015) as Self
• Bad Santa 2 (2016) as Willie Soke
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016) as General Hollanek
• London Fields (2018) as Samson Young
• A Million Little Pieces (2019) as Leonard
• Untouchable (2019) as Self (archive footage)
• ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas (2019) as Self
• The Gray Man (2022) as Fitzroy
• Devil's Peak (2023) as Charlie McNeely
• The Electric State (2025) as Voice (uncredited)

Billy Bob Thornton television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Billy Bob Thornton; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• 1883 as Marshal Jim Courtright
• American Dad! as Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
• CatDog as CatDog's Father (voice)
• Fargo as Lorne Malvo; Narrator (voice)
• Goliath as Billy McBride
• Harley Quinn as Billy Bob Thornton (voice)
• King of the Hill as Boyce Hubert (voice)
• Knots Landing as Timberman
• Landman as Tommy Norris
• Matlock as Pawnshop Clerk
• The Big Bang Theory as Oliver Lorvis
• The Oscars as Self

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Billy Bob Thornton's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.