Billy Green Bush
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William Warren Bush is an American
actor
, sometimes credited as “Billy Greenbush”.
Notable movie
appearances include Five Easy Pieces
(1970), The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972), Electra Glide in Blue
(1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
(1974), The River
(1984), The Hitcher (1986), Critters (1986)
, and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
(1993). He has also appeared frequently on television
, including a recurring role as Bobby Angel on Hill Street Blues
and a memorable episode of M*A*S*H, in which his character, “Cowboy”, tried to kill commanding officer Henry Blake. He later appeared as Vernon Presley, the father of Elvis Presley
, in the series Elvis.
Bush is the father of twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush
(who starred as Carrie in Little House on the Prairie
) and actor Clay Greenbush
.
United States
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actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
, sometimes credited as “Billy Greenbush”.
Notable movie
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
appearances include Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces
Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film written by Carole Eastman and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Susan Anspach. The cast also includes Billy 'Green' Bush, Fannie Flagg, Ralph Waite, Sally Struthers, Lois Smith, Toni Basil, and...
(1970), The Culpepper Cattle Company (1972), Electra Glide in Blue
Electra Glide in Blue
Electra Glide in Blue is a 1973 film starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy Green Bush as his partner. The name stems from the Harley-Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle issued to traffic cops....
(1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1974 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Robert Getchell. It stars Ellen Burstyn as a widow who travels with her preteen son across the American Southwest in search of a better life, along with Alfred Lutter as her son and Kris...
(1974), The River
The River (1984 film)
The River is a 1984 film which tells the story of a struggling farm family in the Tennessee valley trying keep its farm going in the face of bank foreclosures, floods, and other hard times. The father faces the dilemma of having to work as a strikebreaker in a steel mill to keep his family farm...
(1984), The Hitcher (1986), Critters (1986)
Critters (film)
Critters is a 1986 cult science fiction film starring Dee Wallace-Stone, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush and Scott Grimes. It was directed by Stephen Herek and written by Herek, Domonic Muir and Don Keith Opper . It is the first film in the Critters series...
, and Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday is a 1993 slasher film, the ninth—and, as the title suggests, intended final—installment in the Friday the 13th film series and the first sequel to be distributed by New Line Cinema....
(1993). He has also appeared frequently on television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, including a recurring role as Bobby Angel on Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received critical acclaim and its production innovations ...
and a memorable episode of M*A*S*H, in which his character, “Cowboy”, tried to kill commanding officer Henry Blake. He later appeared as Vernon Presley, the father of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
, in the series Elvis.
Bush is the father of twins Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush
Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush
Rachel Lindsay Rene Bush and Sidney Robyn Danae Bush - former child actresses. Born to actor Billy Green Bush and Carole Kay Bush...
(who starred as Carrie in Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s. The show was an adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder's best-selling series of Little House books...
) and actor Clay Greenbush
Clay Greenbush
Clay Greenbush is an American actor and former child actor.He started his career at the age of ten months, with an uncredited appearance in Five Easy Pieces, a movie which starred his father, Billy Greenbush. He played a baby in the arms of Jack Nicholson...
.
External links
- Billy Green Bush at Rotten TomatoesRotten TomatoesRotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...