Thornton, Billy Bob - Noted actor and director who achieved fame on "Hearts Afire" in the early 1990s and later as an award-winning director beginning with his movie Slingblade, which was based on a character he knew growing up in the Alpine community near Amity the first eight years of his life. He lived with his grandparents, Claude and Maude Faulkner at the time. He later moved to Malvern. His father is buried at the Alpine Cemetery, where he and his former wife, Angelina Jolie also have plots. Thornton donated money to construct a chapel at the cemetery.