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Bill Norton

Highest Rated: 100% Cisco Pike (1971)

Lowest Rated: 6% Baby ... Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)

Birthday: Not Available

Birthplace: Venice, California, USA

Writer and director Bill L. Norton began his professional career in 1964 with his screenplay for the obscure comedy "How to Succeed with Girls." He followed it by working in another department altogether: camera operator on the 1965 Elvis Presley musical "Girl Happy." Norton made his directorial debut on 1972's "Cisco Pike," a gritty drug drama that he also wrote, which starred Kris Kristofferson and Gene Hackman. After scripting the Peter Fonda vehicle "Outlaw Blues," Norton stepped behind the camera on the ill-advised sequel "More American Graffiti" in 1979. Into the 1980s, Norton transitioned to work as a television director, lensing episodes of the Vietnam series "Tour of Duty" and a horde of made-for-TV movies, usually crime melodramas, with titles like "Angel of Death" and "Deadly Whispers." His career in episodics grew in the 1990s and '00s, when he landed work on the popular teen show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," the procedural spin-off "Law & Order," and the military drama "The Unit."

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Highest rated movies

100% 64% Cisco Pike
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56% 72% Convoy
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33% 42% Gargoyles
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20% 33% More American Graffiti
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18% 28% Losin' It
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6% 38% Baby ... Secret of the Lost Legend
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A Crime of Passion
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Thirst
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Angel of Death
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43% Stolen Innocence
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet 39% Generation Gap Director - 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Crime of Passion Director - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Thirst Director - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Them Director - 1998
No Score Yet 50% Every Mother's Worst Fear Director - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Deadly Vision Director - 1997
No Score Yet 60% Our Mother's Murder Director - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bad to the Bone Director - 1997
No Score Yet 67% A Tangled Web Director - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Welcome to Paradise Director - 1995
No Score Yet 29% Deadly Whispers Director - 1995
No Score Yet 43% Stolen Innocence Director - 1995
No Score Yet 58% Hercules and the Amazon Women Director - 1994
No Score Yet 60% Hercules in the Underworld Director - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Angel of Death Director - 1990
No Score Yet 44% Three for the Road Director $724.5K 1987
6% 38% Baby ... Secret of the Lost Legend Director - 1985
18% 28% Losin' It Screenwriter - 1982
20% 33% More American Graffiti Director,
Screenwriter
- 1979
56% 72% Convoy Screenwriter - 1978
No Score Yet 38% Outlaw Blues Screenwriter - 1977
33% 42% Gargoyles Director - 1972
100% 64% Cisco Pike Director - 1971

TV

Credit
85% 77% The Unit Director 2006-2007 2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Las Vegas Director 2008
45% 43% Heartland Director 2007
No Score Yet 72% Law & Order: Criminal Intent Director 2005-2006
No Score Yet 87% Ghost Whisperer Director 2005
44% No Score Yet Threshold Director 2005
No Score Yet 83% The Guardian Director 2004
87% 88% Angel Director 2001-2003
20% No Score Yet Hack Director 2003
85% 92% Buffy the Vampire Slayer Director 2002
No Score Yet 88% Roswell Director 2000-2001
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fugitive Director 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sons of Thunder Director 1999
19% No Score Yet Vengeance Unlimited Director 1998-1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tour of Duty Director,
Writer
1987-1989
54% No Score Yet Haunted Director