Billy Green Bush
Veteran character actor Billy Green Bush is best known for his offbeat roles in the 1970s. The flinty, folksy actor began his career working on many notable shows of the 1960s, including the sci-fi anthology "The Outer Limits" as well as the Western staples "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke." His first notable film role came in 1971 with his standout performance as Elton, a redneck oil-rig worker, and Jack Nicholson's only friend, in the landmark drama "Five Easy Pieces." Bush followed it up playing another dullard opposite an established actor: Robert Blake's Highway Patrol partner in 1973's "Electra Glide in Blue." The following year brought another meaty part in a classic 1970s film, "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," as Ellen Burstyn's no-good but much-grieved trucker husband. For the remainder of the decade, Bush moved firmly into television, with appearances on the motorcycle-cop show "CHiPs," the war comedy "M*A*S*H," and the good-ol'-boy lark "The Dukes of Hazzard," among many others.
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Billy Green Bush
Filmography
Movies
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16% |
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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday | Sheriff Ed Landis (Character) | $15.6M | 1993 |
No Score Yet |
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Conagher | Jacob Teale (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Private Debts | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Elvis and Me | Vernon Presley (Character) | - | 1988 |
50% |
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Rampage | Judge McKinsey (Character) | $322.5K | 1987 |
64% |
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The Hitcher | Trooper Donner (Character) | $2.1M | 1986 |
52% |
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Critters | Jay Brown (Character) | $11.3M | 1986 |
27% |
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The River | Harve Stanley (Character) | - | 1984 |
71% |
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Tom Horn | U.S. Marshal Joe Belle (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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The Jericho Mile | Warden Earl Gulliver (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beasts Are on the Streets | Jim Scudder (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Invasion of Johnson County | Frank Canton (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Call of the Wild | Redsweater (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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MacKintosh and T.J. | Luke Jenkins (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan | Dave Keene (Character) | - | 1975 |
92% |
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Donald (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skyway to Death | Walter Benson (Character) | - | 1974 |
69% |
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Electra Glide in Blue | John Wintergreen (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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Forty Carats | J.D. Rogers (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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The Culpepper Cattle Company | Frank Culpepper (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jesus Trip | Tarboro (Character) | - | 1971 |
25% |
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The Organization | Dave Thomas (Character) | - | 1971 |
89% |
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Monte Walsh | Powder Kent (Character) | - | 1970 |
89% |
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Five Easy Pieces | Elton (Character) | - | 1970 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 78% | Amazing Stories | Unknown (Character) | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Houston Knights | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1987 |
97% | 85% | Hill Street Blues | Bobby Angel (Guest Star) | 1985-1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dallas | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fall Guy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1983 |
No Score Yet | 74% | Incredible Hulk | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dukes of Hazzard | Marty Garbade (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Starsky and Hutch | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Streets of San Francisco | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barbary Coast | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Kermit (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rookies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Gardner Finney (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | 87% | M*A*S*H | John 'Cowboy' Hodges (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970 |
92% | 92% | The Outer Limits | Hunter (Character) | 1963 |