Billy Green Bush
Acting • Born 1935-11-07
Biography
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
60 credits
Critters
Movie • 1986
Jay Brown
Tom Horn
Movie • 1980
Joe Belle
Electra Glide in Blue
Movie • 1973
Zipper
The Hitcher
Movie • 1986
Trooper Donner
Five Easy Pieces
Movie • 1970
Elton
40 Carats
Movie • 1973
J.D. Rogers
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Movie • 1972
Frank Culpepper
Conagher
Movie • 1991
Jacob Teale
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Movie • 1974
Donald Hyatt
Monte Walsh
Movie • 1970
Powder Kent
The Deliberate Stranger
Movie • 1986
Officer Bradley
The Call of the Wild
Movie • 1976
Redsweater
Rampage
Movie • 1987
Judge McKinsey
The Jesus Trip
Movie • 1971
Tarboro
The River
Movie • 1984
Harve Stanley
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Movie • 1993
Sheriff Ed Landis
The Beasts Are on the Streets
Movie • 1978
Jim Scudder
The Girl on the Edge of Town
Movie • 1981
Frank Swenson
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Movie • 1975
Dave Keene
Elvis and Me
Movie • 1988
Vernon Presley
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Movie • 1971
Sheriff
The Jericho Mile
Movie • 1980
Warden Earl Gulliver
Skyway to Death
Movie • 1974
Walter Benson
Unholy Matrimony
Movie • 1966
Eavesdropping Husband
The Invasion of Johnson County
Movie • 1976
Frank Canton
The Reivers
Movie • 1969
Patron
Mackintosh and T.J.
Movie • 1975
Luke
The Organization
Movie • 1971
Dave Thomas
Critters 3
Movie • 1991
Dad (archive footage)
CHiPs
TV • 1977
M*A*S*H
TV • 1972
Cowboy
The Rookies
TV • 1972
The A-Team
TV • 1983
Cutter's Number Two Man
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
Willy Hall
The F.B.I.
TV • 1965
John Morgan
The Streets of San Francisco
TV • 1972
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Kermit
Baretta
TV • 1975
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Bobby Angel
Cannon
TV • 1971
City of Angels
TV • 1976
Charles Downing
Banyon
TV • 1972
Barbary Coast
TV • 1975
The Manhunter
TV • 1974
Elvis
TV • 2005
The Outer Limits
TV • 1963
Tom - Duckhunter #3 (as William Bush)
The Oregon Trail
TV • 1977
The Runaways
TV • 1978
Elvis
TV • 1990
Amazing Stories
TV • 1985
George Willoughby
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Tony Spanier
Matlock
TV • 1986
Billy Ray Webber
Renegade
TV • 1992
Harry Wells
Elvis and Me
TV • 1988
Vernon Presley
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
Ray
AfterMASH
TV • 1983
The Stranger
Misfits of Science
TV • 1985
The Incredible Hulk
TV • 1977
Sheriff Carl Decker
Stoney Burke
TV • 1962
2nd Doctor