Anecdotes

Thursby began acting at the dawn of the talkies. Spending much of his career at 20th Century Fox playing unbilled cameos, he remained active in films up to his retirement in 1957.

Appeared in two Oscar Best Picture winners: Les révoltés du Bounty (1935) and Madame Miniver (1942), and four other nominees: Capitaine Blood (1935), Capitaines courageux (1937), Les aventures de Robin des Bois (1938) and L'héritière (1949).