Billy Bob Thornton: movies and TV shows
Billy Bob Thornton has 181 credits in the archive: 134 films and 47 TV series, from 1944 to 2026. Highest rated: CMT Music Awards (10.0/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2026 · busiest year: 1996 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern | Film | — | 70 | |
| 2025 | The Electric State | Voice (uncredited) | Film | 6.5 | 69 |
| 2025 | If These Walls Could Rock | Film | — | 69 | |
| 2024 | Landman | Tommy Norris | TV | 8.2 | 68 |
| 2024 | Landman | TV | 8.2 | 68 | |
| 2024 | Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties | Self | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2023 | Devil's Peak | Charlie McNeely | Film | 5.5 | 67 |
| 2022 | The Gray Man | Fitzroy | Film | 6.9 | 66 |
| 2022 | Help Her Live | Film | 9.0 | 66 | |
| 2022 | Immediate Family | Self | Film | 7.4 | 66 |
| 2022 | Walk, Don't Run: The Story of The Ventures | Film | — | 66 | |
| 2021 | 1883 | Marshal Jim Courtright | TV | 8.3 | 65 |
| 2021 | Hollywood.Con | Boxmaster | Film | 3.6 | 65 |
| 2020 | The Ventures: Stars on Guitars | Film | 5.3 | 64 | |
| 2020 | Chuck Leavell: The Tree Man | Self | Film | 5.0 | 64 |
| 2020 | Picture Show: A Tribute Celebrating John Prine | Self | Film | — | 64 |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.3 | 63 |
| 2019 | Harley Quinn | Billy Bob Thornton (voice) | TV | 8.3 | 63 |
| 2019 | A Million Little Pieces | Leonard | Film | 6.2 | 63 |
| 2019 | Untouchable | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 63 |
| 2019 | ZZ Top - That Little Ol' Band from Texas | Self | Film | 7.5 | 63 |
| 2018 | London Fields | Samson Young | Film | 5.1 | 62 |
| 2018 | Temple of Art | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 2016 | Goliath | Billy McBride | TV | 7.6 | 60 |
| 2016 | Goliath | TV | 7.6 | 60 | |
| 2016 | Whiskey Tango Foxtrot | General Hollanek | Film | 6.3 | 60 |
| 2016 | Bad Santa 2 | Willie Soke | Film | 5.4 | 60 |
| 2016 | IRON WILL: Veterans Battle with PTSD | Narrator | Film | — | 60 |
| 2016 | The First Boys of Spring | Film | — | 60 | |
| 2016 | What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | TV | 6.1 | 59 |
| 2015 | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Self | TV | 6.2 | 59 |
| 2015 | Entourage | Larsen McCredle | Film | 6.2 | 59 |
| 2015 | Into the Grizzly Maze | Douglass | Film | 5.4 | 59 |
| 2015 | Our Brand Is Crisis | Pat Candy | Film | 5.9 | 59 |
| 2015 | Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed | Self | Film | 5.4 | 59 |
| 2015 | Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead | Self - Actor / Director | Film | 6.7 | 59 |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest | TV | 5.8 | 58 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | TV | 5.1 | 58 |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self - Guest | TV | 5.1 | 58 |
| 2014 | Fargo | Lorne Malvo | TV | 8.3 | 58 |
| 2014 | Fargo | Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.3 | 58 |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | TV | 4.2 | 58 |
| 2014 | The Judge | Dwight Dickham | Film | 7.3 | 58 |
| 2014 | Cut Bank | Stan Steeley | Film | 5.8 | 58 |
| 2014 | 21 Years: Richard Linklater | Self - Actor | Film | 6.3 | 58 |
| 2013 | Parkland | Forrest Sorrels | Film | 6.3 | 57 |
| 2013 | Norm Macdonald Live | Self | TV | 8.0 | 57 |
| 2013 | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Skip Caldwell | Film | 5.7 | 57 |
| 2013 | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Film | 5.7 | 57 | |
| 2013 | Jayne Mansfield's Car | Film | 5.7 | 57 | |
| 2013 | Sport in America: Our Defining Stories | Self | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 2012 | The Baytown Outlaws | Carlos | Film | 6.0 | 56 |
| 2012 | Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton | Self | Film | 6.3 | 56 |
| 2011 | Puss in Boots | Jack (voice) | Film | 6.6 | 55 |
| 2011 | Nashville Rises | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 55 |
| 2011 | The Smell of Success | Patrick | Film | 5.6 | 55 |
| 2011 | The King of Luck | Film | — | 55 | |
| 2011 | Dislecksia: The Movie | Self | Film | — | 55 |
| 2011 | Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland | Film | — | 55 | |
| 2010 | Faster | Cop | Film | 6.4 | 54 |
| 2010 | Small Town Saturday Night | Film | 5.2 | 54 | |
| 2010 | Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm | Self | Film | 6.2 | 54 |
| 2009 | Levon Helm: Ramble At The Ryman | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 2008 | Eagle Eye | Thomas Morgan | Film | 6.5 | 52 |
| 2008 | The Informers | William Sloan | Film | 4.8 | 52 |
| 2008 | Mr. Woodcock: Phys Ed Trauma Tales | Self | Film | — | 52 |
| 2008 | VH1 Rock Honors: The Who | Self | Film | — | 52 |
| 2008 | Pick Up the Pace: Making “Mr. Woodcock” | Self | Film | — | 52 |
| 2007 | The Big Bang Theory | Oliver Lorvis | TV | 7.9 | 51 |
| 2007 | The Astronaut Farmer | Charles Farmer | Film | 6.3 | 51 |
| 2007 | Mr. Woodcock | Jasper Woodcock | Film | 5.1 | 51 |
| 2007 | Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation | Self | Film | 6.5 | 51 |
| 2006 | School for Scoundrels | Dr. P | Film | 5.5 | 50 |
| 2006 | NFL: Favre 4 Ever | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 50 |
| 2006 | VH1 Rock Honors | TV | 7.0 | 50 | |
| 2006 | 2006 St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Heaven: A World Championship Season | Narrator | Film | 9.2 | 50 |
| 2006 | 2006 St. Louis Cardinals: The Official World Series Film | Narrator | Film | — | 50 |
| 2005 | American Dad! | Billy Bob Thornton (voice) | TV | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | TV | 6.8 | 49 |
| 2005 | Bad News Bears | Morris Buttermaker | Film | 5.8 | 49 |
| 2005 | The Ice Harvest | Vic | Film | 5.9 | 49 |
| 2005 | Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood | Self | Film | 7.0 | 49 |
| 2004 | Friday Night Lights | Coach Gary Gaines | Film | 6.9 | 48 |
| 2004 | The Alamo | Davy Crockett | Film | 5.8 | 48 |
| 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | Film | 7.2 | 48 |
| 2004 | Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade | Self | Film | 8.0 | 48 |
| 2004 | Chrystal | Joe | Film | 5.8 | 48 |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | TV | 6.1 | 47 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 47 |
| 2003 | Love Actually | The US President | Film | 7.1 | 47 |
| 2003 | Bad Santa | Willie | Film | 6.6 | 47 |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Howard D. Doyle | Film | 6.0 | 47 |
| 2003 | Levity | Manuel Jordan | Film | 6.1 | 47 |
| 2003 | Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart | Narrator | Film | 9.0 | 47 |
| 2003 | Celebrities Uncensored | Self | TV | 4.8 | 47 |
| 2002 | CMT Music Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | 10.0 | 46 |
| 2002 | HypaSpace | Self | TV | 5.0 | 46 |
| 2002 | Waking Up in Reno | Lonnie Earl Dodd | Film | 5.1 | 46 |
| 2002 | The Badge | Sheriff Darl | Film | 5.7 | 46 |
| 2002 | Widespread Panic: Panic In the Streets | Film | — | 46 | |
| 2002 | Making "The Man Who Wasn't There" | Self | Film | — | 46 |
| 2001 | The Man Who Wasn't There | Ed Crane | Film | 7.5 | 45 |
| 2001 | Bandits | Terry Lee Collins | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 2001 | Monster's Ball | Hank Grotowski | Film | 6.8 | 45 |
| 2001 | Daddy and Them | Claude Montgomery | Film | 5.4 | 45 |
| 2001 | Daddy and Them | Film | 5.4 | 45 | |
| 2001 | Daddy and Them | Film | 5.4 | 45 | |
| 2001 | Camouflage | Film | 4.4 | 45 | |
| 2001 | Camouflage | Film | 4.4 | 45 | |
| 2000 | The Gift | Film | 6.5 | 44 | |
| 2000 | All the Pretty Horses | Film | 5.7 | 44 | |
| 2000 | All the Pretty Horses | Film | 5.7 | 44 | |
| 2000 | The Last Real Cowboys | Tar | Film | 7.7 | 44 |
| 2000 | The Last Real Cowboys | Film | 7.7 | 44 | |
| 2000 | South of Heaven, West of Hell | Brig. Smalls | Film | 5.0 | 44 |
| 2000 | CatDog and the Great Parent Mystery | Hound Dog McDog / CatDog's Step-father (voice) | Film | 7.7 | 44 |
| 2000 | Arista Records' 25th Anniversary Celebration | Self | Film | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1999 | The Early Show | Self | TV | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1999 | Pushing Tin | Russell Bell | Film | 5.9 | 43 |
| 1998 | CatDog | CatDog's Father (voice) | TV | 7.1 | 42 |
| 1998 | Armageddon | Dan Truman | Film | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1998 | A Simple Plan | Jacob Mitchell | Film | 7.2 | 42 |
| 1998 | Primary Colors | Richard Jemmons | Film | 6.3 | 42 |
| 1998 | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn | Self | Film | 3.9 | 42 |
| 1998 | Homegrown | Jack Marsden | Film | 5.6 | 42 |
| 1997 | King of the Hill | Boyce Hubert (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 41 |
| 1997 | The View | Self | TV | 4.3 | 41 |
| 1997 | Classic Albums | Self | TV | 7.7 | 41 |
| 1997 | U Turn | Darrell | Film | 6.6 | 41 |
| 1997 | The Apostle | Troublemaker | Film | 6.3 | 41 |
| 1997 | A Gun, a Car, a Blonde | Syd / Monk | Film | 4.9 | 41 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | TV | 6.4 | 40 |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Karl Childers | Film | 7.5 | 40 |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Film | 7.5 | 40 | |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Film | 7.5 | 40 | |
| 1996 | Sling Blade | Film | 7.5 | 40 | |
| 1996 | Don't Look Back | Marshall | Film | 5.2 | 40 |
| 1996 | Don't Look Back | Film | 5.2 | 40 | |
| 1996 | Don't Look Back | Film | 5.2 | 40 | |
| 1996 | A Family Thing | Film | 6.5 | 40 | |
| 1996 | The Winner | Jack | Film | 4.6 | 40 |
| 1995 | Dead Man | Big George Drakoulious | Film | 7.3 | 39 |
| 1995 | Out There | Jailbird | Film | 4.9 | 39 |
| 1995 | The Stars Fell on Henrietta | Roy | Film | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1994 | On Deadly Ground | Homer Carlton | Film | 5.2 | 38 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 38 |
| 1994 | Floundering | Gun Clerk | Film | 5.0 | 38 |
| 1994 | Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade | Karl Childers | Film | 6.7 | 38 |
| 1994 | Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade | Film | 6.7 | 38 | |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 37 |
| 1993 | Bound by Honor | Lightning | Film | 8.2 | 37 |
| 1993 | Indecent Proposal | Day Tripper | Film | 6.4 | 37 |
| 1993 | Tombstone | Johnny Tyler | Film | 7.6 | 37 |
| 1993 | Trouble Bound | Coldface | Film | 5.7 | 37 |
| 1993 | Grey Knight | Langston | Film | 5.1 | 37 |
| 1993 | Living and Working in Space: The Countdown Has Begun | Rowdy Udall | Film | 5.0 | 37 |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Self | TV | 5.4 | 36 |
| 1992 | Hearts Afire | Billy Bob Davis | TV | 7.8 | 36 |
| 1992 | One False Move | Ray Malcolm | Film | 6.7 | 36 |
| 1992 | One False Move | Film | 6.7 | 36 | |
| 1991 | For the Boys | Marine Sergeant, Korea | Film | 6.4 | 35 |
| 1991 | The Dark Backward | Patron at Sloppy's | Film | 5.7 | 35 |
| 1990 | Evening Shade | Alvin | TV | 5.8 | 34 |
| 1990 | The Outsiders | Buck Merrill | TV | 7.6 | 34 |
| 1989 | Going Overboard | Dave | Film | 2.3 | 33 |
| 1989 | Chopper Chicks in Zombietown | Tommy | Film | 4.7 | 33 |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | TV | 5.6 | 32 | |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest | TV | 5.6 | 32 |
| 1988 | This Morning | Self - Guest | TV | 5.2 | 32 |
| 1988 | Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night | Self - Audience Member | Film | 7.6 | 32 |
| 1988 | South of Reno | Counterman | Film | 4.9 | 32 |
| 1986 | Matlock | Pawnshop Clerk | TV | 7.1 | 30 |
| 1986 | Hunter's Blood | Billy Bob | Film | 5.6 | 30 |
| 1979 | Knots Landing | Timberman | TV | 7.0 | 23 |
| 1977 | This Week in Baseball | TV | 9.0 | 21 | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 19 |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self | TV | 7.0 | 2 |
| 1952 | Today | Self | TV | 5.6 | 3 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 11 |
| Somedays | Film | — | — |