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Billy Green Bush

Highest Rated: 92% Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

Lowest Rated: 16% Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993)

Birthday: Nov 7, 1935

Birthplace: Montgomery, Alabama, USA

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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Highest rated movies

92% 82% Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
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89% 64% Monte Walsh
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89% 84% Five Easy Pieces
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71% 69% Tom Horn
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69% 74% Electra Glide in Blue
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64% 75% The Hitcher
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52% 45% Critters
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50% 50% Rampage
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27% 49% The River
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25% 29% The Organization
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
16% 23% Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday Sheriff Ed Landis (Character) $15.6M 1993
No Score Yet 76% Conagher Jacob Teale (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Private Debts Unknown (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 95% Elvis and Me Vernon Presley (Character) - 1988
50% 50% Rampage Judge McKinsey (Character) $322.5K 1987
64% 75% The Hitcher Trooper Donner (Character) $2.1M 1986
52% 45% Critters Jay Brown (Character) $11.3M 1986
27% 49% The River Harve Stanley (Character) - 1984
71% 69% Tom Horn U.S. Marshal Joe Belle (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 78% 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 80% 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% 82% Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Donald (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Skyway to Death Walter Benson (Character) - 1974
69% 74% Electra Glide in Blue John Wintergreen (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 61% Forty Carats J.D. Rogers (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 63% The Culpepper Cattle Company Frank Culpepper (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jesus Trip Tarboro (Character) - 1971
25% 29% The Organization Dave Thomas (Character) - 1971
89% 64% Monte Walsh Powder Kent (Character) - 1970
89% 84% 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