Cast & creator
Billy Green Bush
Best known for Bonanza, M*A*S*H, Hill Street Blues
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.
Also known as: Billy Greenbush, William Warren Bush
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television credits
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1955–2005 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (62)
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Bonanza
Tony Spanier
1959
M*A*S*H
Cowboy
1972
Hill Street Blues
Bobby Angel
1981
The A-Team
Cutter's Number Two Man
1983
Cannon
1971
Matlock
Billy Ray Webber
1986
Renegade
Harry Wells
1992
Starsky & Hutch
Willy Hall
1975
The F.B.I.
John Morgan
1965
The Incredible Hulk
Ray
1977The Incredible Hulk
Sheriff Carl Decker
1977
The Rookies
1972
Gunsmoke
Kermit
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
The Outer Limits
Tom - Duckhunter #3 (as William Bush)
1963
Amazing Stories
George Willoughby
1985
Baretta
1975
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
CHiPs
1977
Stoney Burke
2nd Doctor
1962
The Manhunter
1974
The Hitcher
Trooper Donner
1986
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
Sheriff Ed Landis
1993
Misfits of Science
1985
Barbary Coast
1975
Banyon
1972
The Oregon Trail
1977
AfterMASH
The Stranger
1983
City of Angels
Charles Downing
1976
Critters
Jay Brown
1986
Elvis
2005
Critters 3
Dad (archive footage)
1991
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Donald Hyatt
1974
The Runaways
1978
Five Easy Pieces
Elton
1970
The Deliberate Stranger
Officer Bradley
1986
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Dave Keene
1975
Conagher
Jacob Teale
1991
40 Carats
J.D. Rogers
1973
Electra Glide in Blue
Zipper
1973
The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Frank Culpepper
1972
Elvis
1990
Elvis and Me
Vernon Presley
1988
The Organization
Dave Thomas
1971Death on the Oregon Trail
1998
The Reivers
Patron
1969
The River
Harve Stanley
1984
The Deliberate Stranger
Officer Bradley
1986
Mackintosh and T.J.
Luke
1975
Monte Walsh
Powder Kent
1970
Tom Horn
Joe Belle
1980
The Jericho Mile
Warden Earl Gulliver
1980
Rampage
Judge McKinsey
1987
Elvis and Me
Vernon Presley
1988
The Call of the Wild
Redsweater
1976
The Invasion of Johnson County
Frank Canton
1976
Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
Sheriff
1971
The Beasts Are on the Streets
Jim Scudder
1978
Skyway to Death
Walter Benson
1974
Unholy Matrimony
Eavesdropping Husband
1966
The Girl on the Edge of Town
Frank Swenson
1981
The Jesus Trip
Tarboro
1971