Tony Bill

Known for ActingBorn 1940-08-23 (age 85)San Diego, California, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Running Out

With This Ring

To Have & to Hold

2 1/2 Dads

Dirty Dancing

The Crown

Law & Order: Trial by Jury

The Princess and the Pea

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families

Keen Eddie

Monk

High Incident

Faerie Tale Theatre

The Lion Roars Again

The Sting

Lanton Mills

Leverage

Washington: Behind Closed Doors

Moonlighting

Murder, She Wrote

Freedom

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Harlan County War

Bonanza

Glory Days

Casting By

Mr. Novak

Boulevard Nights

Going in Style

Theatre 625

A Home of Our Own

Run for Your Life

Untamed Heart

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Going in Style

UC: Undercover

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Hotel

Flyboys

Felicity

Flap

Salinger

Beyond the Call

The Visitor

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

In the Time of the Butterflies

Less Than Zero