Willingham appeared in more than thirty feature films, including "Big Bad Mama" (1974), "Chinatown" (1974), "Where Have All The People Gone?" (1974), "Aloha, Bobby and Rose" (1975), "Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York " (1975), "Fighting Mad" (1976), "Greased Lightning" (1977), "The Boys in Company C" (1978), "Norma Rae" (1979), "Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider" (1979), "Brubaker" (1980), "The Howling" (1981), "Harry's War" (1981), "Independence Day" (1983), "La Bamba" (1987), "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987), the HBO film "The Heist" (1989), "Blind Fury" (1989), "City Slickers" (1991), "The Last Boy Scout" (1991), "Pastime" (1991), "Article 99" (1992), "The Distinguished Gentleman" (1992), "Of Mice and Men" (1992), "Fire In The Sky" (1993), "The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994), ' (1994), ' (1994), "Up Close & Personal" (1996), and "The Corndog Man" (1999).