David Howard Thornton
Acting Born Nov 30, 1979 Huntsville, Alabama, USA 26 credits
Biography
David Howard Thornton is a European-American actor. He has worked in stage, film, and voice over. His notable roles include Art the Clown in the Terrifier films, Grandpa Who in the national tours of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical, and the voice of Shizoku in the video game Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom. He has also portrayed the Joker in the YouTube series Nightwing Escalation and the eponymous character in the Christmas horror parody film The Mean One.
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Frequent co-stars
Samantha Scaffidi
3 shared titles
Kailey Hyman
3 shared titles
Cory DuVal
2 shared titles
Lauren LaVera
2 shared titles
Elliott Fullam
2 shared titles
Christopher Keith Irvine
2 shared titles
Jenna Kanell
1 shared title
Catherine Corcoran
1 shared title
Pooya Mohseni
1 shared title
Matt McAllister
1 shared title
Career timeline
Rough CutThe Dead Place
ScreamboatAmerican ClownArt Attack! The Dissection of Terrifier 3NamakaThe Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide
Terrifier 3StreamA Very Special Terrifier Christmas
BupkisThe Horror We Make
Terrifier 2Selfie KingThe Mean One
The Dark Offerings
The Exigency
Terrifier
Full filmography
- Rough Cut (2026) as Arnold Drewitt
- The Dead Place (2026) as The New Kid
- Screamboat (2025) as Steamboat Willie
- American Clown (2025) as Self
- Art Attack! The Dissection of Terrifier 3 (2025) as Self
- Namaka (2025) as Walter Notch
- The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide (2025) as Horror Film Expert
- Big Baby (2025) as Hooper
- Christmas Chaos: Making 'The Mean One' (2025) as Self
- Terrifier 3 (2024) as Art the Clown
- Stream (2024) as Player 2
- A Very Special Terrifier Christmas (2024) as Art the Clown
- Bupkis (2023) as Art the Clown
- The Horror We Make (2023) as Self
- Terrifier 2 (2022) as Art the Clown
- Selfie King (2022) as Self
- The Mean One (2022) as The Mean One
- The Dark Offerings (2021) as Tim Cobb
- The Exigency (2019) as Bumbo (voice)
- Terrifier (2018) as Art the Clown
- Terrifier 4 as Art the Clown
- The Autopsy of Albert Kemper as Albert Kemper
- Stream 2: Sudden Death as Player 2
- Behind the Mask II: The Return of Leslie Vernon as Arthur
- Screamboat 2: Nothing Stays Dead as Steamboat Willie
- Night of the Living Dead II