Netflix Movies Starring Bill Thornbury
A lover of music and scenic arts since his childhood, Bill Thornbury graduated from the California State University at Fresno with a teaching degree in music and nowadays teaches in Northern California. His sporadic and short cinematic career started at the age of 22, playing a small role in an independent film called Summer School Teachers (1974) and directed by the controversial Barbara Peeters. In the following years, he appeared in a couple of productions made for TV: the drama movie Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975) and an episode for The Rockford Files (1974). In these early period, and in the upcoming years, he was also featured in many national television commercials, including "Honda Motorcycles", "Chrysler/Plymouth", and "Coca-Cola". Anyway, his breakthrough came in 1978, being 26 years old, when he portrayed the character he will always be identified with: Jody Pearson, elder brother of Mike, the young protagonist of Phantasm (1979). Read more on iMDB