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Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film written, directed by and starring Billy Bob Thornton. Set in Arkansas , it is the story of intellectually challenged Karl Childers and the friendship he develops with a boy and his mother.
Billy Bob Thornton [2] [3] (born August 4, 1955) is an American film actor, filmmaker, singer and songwriter. He received international attention after writing, directing and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1996, actor-director Billy Bob Thornton cast Yoakam as the character Doyle Hargraves in the film Sling Blade. [96] Yoakam had been recommended the role by his manager, and told the website Country Daily in 2016 that Sling Blade was the first role in his acting career which he thought would have a lasting impact. [97]
Walsh was born in San Francisco, California.He had three siblings: Christopher, Patricia, and Mary. [2]After graduating from college in 1967, Walsh worked briefly as a VISTA volunteer in Newport, Rhode Island organizing tenants for the United Tenant Organizations of Rhode Island (UTO) before resigning to pursue his acting career.
At the time, Jolie was still married to Billy Bob Thornton, though months later, she and the “Sling Blade” actor parted ways. At the age of 4, Maddox was adopted by Jolie’s then-partner Pitt .
Sling Blade 'Scooter' Hodges: 1997: U Turn: Boyd: 1998: Another Day in Paradise: Clem: Break Up: County Sheriff #2: A Simple Plan: Lou Chambers: 1999: The Minus Man: Chief of Police: The Thirteenth Year: John 'Big John' Wheatley: Television film Crazy in Alabama: Jury Foreman, Voice of Chester Vinson: The Green Mile: Bill Dodge: Man on the Moon ...
Natalie Canerday is an American actress.. Canerday is a native of Russellville, Arkansas.After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre in 1985 from Hendrix College [1] (where she performed in plays with Herman's Head star William Ragsdale), she began her motion picture career as a production secretary for the television feature The Tuskegee Airmen, then made minor appearances in films ...
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