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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 23, 1940
Place of Birth
San Diego, California, USA
Also Known As
- Gerard Anthony Bill
Tony Bill
0.6 Popularity
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gerard Anthony "Tony" Bill (born 23 August 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. He produced the 1973 movie The Sting, for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. The Sting became one of the highest grossing films in history. He majored in English and art at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, from which he graduated in 1962. Bill began his career as an actor in the 60s, first appearing on screen as Frank Sinatra's ingenuous younger brother in Come Blow Your Horn (1963). Bill specialized in likeable but none-too-bright juveniles and young leads. His acting credits include None But the Brave (1965), You're A Big Boy Now (1966), Never a Dull Moment (1968), Ice Station Zebra (1968), Shampoo (1975), The Little Dragons (1980), Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), and Less Than Zero (1987). Bill continued to act in TV-movies, miniseries, and guest spots though with decreasing frequency as he segued into directing. He appeared in the 1966 episode "Chaff In The Wind" of the long running western The Virginian. He then appeared in 1967 episode "The Predators" of NBC's western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan. In 1980, Bill directed his first film, My Bodyguard. From there he went on to direct Six Weeks (1982), Five Corners (1987), Crazy People (1990) A Home of Our Own (1993), and Flyboys (2006) which Bill claims was one of the first features shot entirely with digital cameras. In television Bill directed Truman Capote's One Christmas, Harlan County War, and Pictures of Hollis Woods, among others. In 2009, Bill published the book Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set. The book traces the etymology of the language of the movie set and is filled out with stories from the Bill's career in film. From 1984-2000, he co-owned with Dudley Moore the celebrated 72 Market Street, a restaurant in Venice, California. He is married to his second wife, the former Helen Buck Bartlett, his producer/partner in Barnstorm Films in Venice. The couple have two daughters, Madeline and Daphne. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Bill, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
8.2
Guardian Editor
The Crown
2016
6.3
Self - Filmmaker
Salinger
2013
6.9
Self
Casting By
2012
7.6
Pierson
Leverage
2008
5.9
Walter
Must Love Dogs
2005
8.1
Kurt Lascher
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
2005
7.1
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
4.1
Detective Mike
Lying in Wait
2001
3.0
Mickey Calvin
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
1998
4.1
Foster
Barb Wire
1996
Credits
The Crown
as Guardian Editor
2016
8.2
Salinger
as Self - Filmmaker
2013
6.3
Casting By
as Self
2012
6.9
Leverage
as Pierson
2008
7.6
Must Love Dogs
as Walter
2005
5.9
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
as Kurt Lascher
2005
8.1
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
2003
7.1
Lying in Wait
as Detective Mike
2001
4.1
Naked City: Justice with a Bullet
as Mickey Calvin
1998
3.0
Barb Wire
as Foster
1996
4.1
A Home of Our Own
as Narrator
1993
6.8
The Killing Mind
as Thomas Quinn
1991
5.0
Less Than Zero
as Bradford Easton
1987
6.4
Citizen Steve
as Self - Actor
1987
5.9
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
as Terry Hawthorne
1985
6.5
Moonlighting
as Scott Huntley
1985
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
as Mark Lee Reynolds
1984
7.5
Running Out
as Paul Corsini
1983
0.0
St. Elsewhere
as Brian Whitehill
1982
5.6
Hotel
as Mike
1982
6.8
Washington Mistress
as Alan
1982
2.3
Freedom
as Richard
1981
6.0
Portrait of an Escort
as Beau Simpson
1980
2.3
The Little Dragons
as Niles
1980
4.7
Heart Beat
as Dick
1980
5.5
Are You in the House Alone?
as Neil Osborne
1978
6.3
With This Ring
as Peter Turner
1978
0.0
The Initiation of Sarah
as Paul Yates
1978
5.5
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
4.5
Having Babies II
as Aaron Canfield
1977
4.0
Washington: Behind Closed Doors
as Adam Gardiner
1977
7.3
Las Vegas Lady
as Bob
1975
3.7
Shampoo
as Johnny Pope
1975
6.0
🎬
The Lion Roars Again
as Self
1975
0.0
Haunts of the Very Rich
as Lyle
1972
5.3
Flap
as Eleven Snowflake
1970
6.4
Lanton Mills
as Mute
1969
0.0
Castle Keep
as Lt. Amberjack
1969
5.7
How to Steal the World
as Steven Garrow
1968
5.2
Never a Dull Moment
as Florian
1968
6.1
Ice Station Zebra
as Lt. Russell Walker
1968
6.3
You're a Big Boy Now
as Raef del Grado
1966
6.1
BBC Play of the Month
as Lee Harvey Oswald
1965
5.0
BBC Play of the Month
as Biff
1965
5.0
Marriage on the Rocks
as Jim Blake
1965
5.6
The Loner
as Jody Merriman
1965
5.7
Run for Your Life
as Charlie Carson
1965
7.2
None But the Brave
as Air Crewman Keller
1965
6.4
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Steve Garrow
1964
7.1
Theatre 625
as Grayson Hinks
1964
7.2
Soldier in the Rain
as Jerry Meltzer
1963
6.3
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
as Tony Pitts
1963
5.7
Mr. Novak
as Chris Herrod
1963
6.5
Come Blow Your Horn
as Buddy Baker
1963
4.8
The Virginian
as Clipper Ellis
1962
6.4
Ben Casey
1961
5.6
Dr. Kildare
as Thomas Hartwood
1961
5.5
Bonanza
as Charlie Two
1959
7.5