David Howard Thornton

Birthday:: 11/30/1979
Place of birth:: Huntsville, Alabama, USA:
Biography:: David Howard Thornton (born November 30, 1979) is a European-American businessman, entrepreneur and actor. He is known for work in stage, film, and voice over. He is best known for his roles as Art the Clown in the Terrifier films, Grandpa Who in the 1st- 5th national tours of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical, the voice of Shizoku and others in the video game Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom, The Joker in the YouTube series Nightwing Escalation, and as the eponymous character in the Christmas horror parody film The Mean One.

Credits

	The Dead Place (2026) as The New Kid
	Rough Cut (2026) as Arnold Drewitt
	Christmas Chaos: Making 'The Mean One' (2025) as Self
	Big Baby (2025) as Hooper
	American Clown (2025) as Self
	Namaka (2025) as Walter Notch
	The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide (2025) as Horror Film Expert
	Screamboat (2025) as Steamboat Willie
	Art Attack! The Dissection of Terrifier 3 (2025) as Self
	A Very Special Terrifier Christmas (2024) as Art the Clown
	Terrifier 3 (2024) as Art the Clown
	Stream (2024) as Player 2
	The Horror We Make (2023) as Self
	The Mean One (2022) as The Mean One
	Selfie King (2022) as Self
	Terrifier 2 (2022) as Art the Clown
	The Dark Offerings (2021) as Tim Cobb
	The Exigency (2019) as Bumbo (voice)
	Terrifier (2018) as Art the Clown
	The Autopsy of Albert Kemper as Albert Kemper
	Screamboat 2: Nothing Stays Dead as Steamboat Willie
	Stream 2: Sudden Death as Player 2
	Night of the Living Dead II
	Terrifier 4 as Art the Clown