Billy Green Bush

Acting

Born November 7, 1935, Montgomery, Alabama, USA

William Warren Bush (born 1935) 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 MAS*H. 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.

Filmography

• Elvis
• 1998Death on the Oregon Trail
• 1993Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday — Sheriff Ed Landis
• Renegade — Harry Wells
• 1991Conagher — Jacob Teale
• 1991Critters 3 — Dad (archive footage)
• Elvis
• 1988Elvis and Me — Vernon Presley
• Elvis and Me — Vernon Presley
• 1987Rampage — Judge McKinsey
• 1986Critters — Jay Brown
• Matlock — Billy Ray Webber
• 1986The Deliberate Stranger — Officer Bradley
• The Deliberate Stranger — Officer Bradley
• 1986The Hitcher — Trooper Donner
• Amazing Stories — George Willoughby
• Misfits of Science
• 1984The River — Harve Stanley
• AfterMASH — The Stranger
• The A-Team — Cutter's Number Two Man
• Hill Street Blues — Bobby Angel
• 1981The Girl on the Edge of Town — Frank Swenson
• 1980The Jericho Mile — Warden Earl Gulliver
• 1980Tom Horn — Joe Belle
• 1978The Beasts Are on the Streets — Jim Scudder
• The Runaways
• CHiPs
• The Incredible Hulk — Ray, Sheriff Carl Decker
• The Oregon Trail
• City of Angels — Charles Downing
• 1976The Call of the Wild — Redsweater
• 1976The Invasion of Johnson County — Frank Canton
• Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan — Dave Keene
• Barbary Coast
• Baretta
• 1975Mackintosh and T.J. — Luke
• Starsky & Hutch — Willy Hall
• 1974Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore — Donald Hyatt
• 1974Skyway to Death — Walter Benson
• The Manhunter
• 197340 Carats — J.D. Rogers
• 1973Electra Glide in Blue — Zipper
• Banyon
• M*A*S*H — Cowboy
• 1972The Culpepper Cattle Co. — Frank Culpepper
• The Rookies
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Alias Smith and Jones
• Cannon
• 1971The Jesus Trip — Tarboro
• 1971The Organization — Dave Thomas
• 1971Welcome Home, Soldier Boys — Sheriff
• 1970Five Easy Pieces — Elton
• 1970Monte Walsh — Powder Kent
• 1969The Reivers — Patron
• 1966Unholy Matrimony — Eavesdropping Husband
• The F.B.I. — John Morgan
• The Outer Limits — Tom - Duckhunter #3 (as William Bush)
• Stoney Burke — 2nd Doctor
• Bonanza — Tony Spanier
• Gunsmoke — Kermit