Tony Bill
- Acting
- August 23, 1940 · San Diego, California, USA
Biography
Gerard Anthony "Tony" Bill (born August 23, 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. 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
Filmography
- Going in Style · Executive producer
- The Crown · Guardian Editor
- Salinger · Self
- Casting By · Self
- Leverage · Pierson, Director
- Pictures of Hollis Woods · Director
- Flyboys · Director
- Must Love Dogs · Walter
- Law & Order: Trial by Jury · Kurt Lascher
- Keen Eddie · Director
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood · Self
- Monk · Director
- Last Call · Executive producer
- Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story · Director
- Glory Days · Director
- In the Time of the Butterflies · Executive producer
- UC: Undercover · Director
- Lying in Wait · Detective Mike
- Harlan County War · Director
- A Chance of Snow · Director
- Naked City: Justice with a Bullet · Mickey Calvin
- To Have & to Hold · Director
- Felicity · Director
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families · Director
- The Visitor · Director
- Oliver Twist · Director
- Beyond the Call · Director, Producer
- Barb Wire · Foster
- High Incident · Director
- One Christmas · Director
- Next Door · Director
- A Home of Our Own · Narrator, Director
- Untamed Heart · Director, Producer
- The Killing Mind · Thomas Quinn
- Crazy People · Director
- Dirty Dancing · Director
- Less Than Zero · Bradford Easton
- Five Corners · Director, Producer
- Citizen Steve · Self
- 2 1/2 Dads · Director
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure · Terry Hawthorne
- Moonlighting · Scott Huntley
- Murder, She Wrote · Mark Lee Reynolds
- Love Thy Neighbor · Director
- The Princess and the Pea · Director
- Running Out · Paul Corsini
- Six Weeks · Director
- St. Elsewhere · Brian Whitehill
- Faerie Tale Theatre · Director
- Hotel · Mike
- Washington Mistress · Alan
- Freedom · Richard
- Portrait of an Escort · Beau Simpson
- The Little Dragons · Niles
- My Bodyguard · Director
- Heart Beat · Dick
- Going in Style · Producer
- Boulevard Nights · Executive producer
- Are You in the House Alone? · Neil Osborne
- With This Ring · Peter Turner
- The Initiation of Sarah · Paul Yates
- What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
- Having Babies II · Aaron Canfield
- Washington: Behind Closed Doors · Adam Gardiner
- Harry and Walter Go to New York · Executive producer
- The Ransom of Red Chief · Director
- Hearts of the West · Producer
- Las Vegas Lady · Bob
- Shampoo · Johnny Pope
- The Lion Roars Again · Self
- The Sting · Producer
- Steelyard Blues · Producer
- Haunts of the Very Rich · Lyle
- Flap · Eleven Snowflake
- Lanton Mills · Mute
- Castle Keep · Lt. Amberjack
- How to Steal the World · Steven Garrow
- Never a Dull Moment · Florian
- Ice Station Zebra · Lt. Russell Walker
- You're a Big Boy Now · Raef del Grado