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Tony Bill

Tony Bill

Highest Rated: 93% The Sting (1973)

Lowest Rated: 20% Heart Beat (1980)

Birthday: Aug 23, 1940

Birthplace: San Diego, California, USA

American producer-director of the 1970s, 80s, and 90s 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), "Ice Station Zebra" (1968), "Shampoo" (1975, an especially enjoyable performance), and "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (1985). Bill continued to act in TV-movies, miniseries, and guest spots though with decreasing frequency since the mid-80s.

Highest rated movies

88% Pee-wee's Big Adventure
83% You're a Big Boy Now
75% Come Blow Your Horn
68% Shampoo
50% Less Than Zero
47% Ice Station Zebra
40% Castle Keep
28% Barb Wire

Photos

MARRIAGE ON THE ROCKS, Tony Bill, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, 1965 ICE STATION ZEBRA, Tony Bill, Ernest Borgnine, Rock Hudson, etc, 1968. COME BLOW YOUR HORN, Tony Bill, 1963 SOLDIER IN THE RAIN, Tony Bill, 1963 FIVE CORNERS, Tony Bill, 1987, (c)Cineplex-Odeon Films COME BLOW YOUR HORN, Tony Bill, 1963 COME BLOW YOUR HORN, Tony Bill, 1963 From left: producers Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips, Tony Bill, at the Academy Awards where they won Best Picture for THE STING, 1974 COME BLOW YOUR HORN, Frank Sinatra, Molly Picon, Tony Bill, Lee J. Cobb, 1963 YOU'RE A BIG BOY NOW, Peter Kastner, Karen Black (front), Geraldine Page (back), Tony Bill, Elizabeth Hartman (standing), 1966 NONE BUT THE BRAVE, Tony Bill, 1965 SOLDIER IN THE RAIN, Tony Bill (left), Tom Poston (second left), Steve McQueen (right), 1963 FLAP, Claude Akins, Anthony Quinn, Victor Jory, Tony Bill, 1970 ICE STATION ZEBRA, first, second, third and sixth from left: Lloyd Haynes, Tony Bill, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, 1968 ICE STATION ZEBRA, kneeling third, fourth and fifth from left: Tony Bill, Ernest Borgnine, Rock Hudson, 1968 A HOME OF OUR OWN, Miles Feulner (front), director Tony Bill (right) on set, 1993, (c) Gramercy Pictures

Filmography

Movies

Credit
47% 58% Going in Style Executive Producer $45.0M 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Classy Broad Self - 2016
No Score Yet 77% Pictures of Hollis Woods Director - 2007
33% 66% Flyboys Director $13.1M 2006
No Score Yet 58% Last Call Executive Producer - 2002
No Score Yet 57% Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story Director - 2002
No Score Yet 76% In the Time of the Butterflies Executive Producer - 2001
No Score Yet 38% Lying in Wait Detective Mike (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 48% Harlan County War Director - 2000
No Score Yet 17% The Fixer Million Dollar Lawyer (Character),
Producer
- 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Chance of Snow Director - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Naked City: Justice With a Bullet Mickey Calvin (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rescuers: Stories of Courage -- Two Families Director - 1998
No Score Yet 57% Oliver Twist Director - 1997
No Score Yet 80% Beyond the Call Director,
Producer
- 1996
28% 14% Barb Wire Foster (Character) $3.6M 1996
No Score Yet 31% Next Door Director - 1994
No Score Yet 27% One Christmas Director - 1994
55% 73% A Home of Our Own Director $1.5M 1993
58% 76% Untamed Heart Director,
Producer
$18.8M 1993
No Score Yet 33% The Killing Mind Thomas Quinn (Character) - 1991
35% 62% Crazy People Director - 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Locos, Locos de Remate Director - 1990
50% 63% Less Than Zero Bradford Easton (Character) $10.8M 1987
78% 54% Five Corners Director,
Producer
$305.4K 1987
88% 79% Pee-wee's Big Adventure Terry Hawthorne (Character) $40.9M 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love Thy Neighbor Director - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Running Out Paul Corsini (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet 68% Six Weeks Director - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Freedom Richard (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Washington Mistress Alan (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Portrait of an Escort Beau Simpson (Character) - 1980
20% 40% Heart Beat Dick (Character) - 1980
79% 70% My Bodyguard Director - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Little Dragons Niles (Character),
Executive Producer
- 1980
82% 75% Going in Style Producer - 1979
No Score Yet 26% The Initiation of Sarah Paul Yates (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet 26% Are You in the House Alone? Neil Osborne (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet With This Ring Peter Turner (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Having Babies II Aaron Canfield (Character) - 1977
90% 42% Hearts of the West Producer - 1975
68% 56% Shampoo Johnny Pope (Character) - 1975
93% 95% The Sting Producer - 1973
50% 31% Steelyard Blues Producer - 1973
No Score Yet 33% Haunts of the Very Rich Lyle Dugan (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 36% Flap Eleven Snowflake (Character) - 1970
40% 49% Castle Keep Lt. Amberjack (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet How to Steal the World Steven Garrow (Character) - 1968
47% 58% Ice Station Zebra Lt. Russell Walker (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 51% Never a Dull Moment Florian (Character) - 1968
83% 50% You're a Big Boy Now Raef del Grado (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 52% Marriage on the Rocks Jim Blake (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 58% None but the Brave Air Crewman Keller (Character) - 1965
75% 60% Come Blow Your Horn Buddy Baker (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 67% Soldier in the Rain Pfc. Jerry Meltzer (Character) - 1963

TV

Credit
93% 83% Pitch Executive Producer 2016
92% 89% Leverage Pierson (Guest Star),
Director
2008-2009
No Score Yet No Score Yet Law & Order: Trial by Jury Unknown (Guest Star) 2005
89% 89% Monk Director 2004
No Score Yet 71% Felicity Director 2000
50% No Score Yet Gideon's Crossing Director 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Director 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet To Have & to Hold Director 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet CBS Summer Playhouse Unknown (Character) 1989
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Mark Lee Reynolds (Guest Star) 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Presents Unknown (Character) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Unknown (Guest Star) 1984
100% No Score Yet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Virginian Clipper Ellis (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dr. Kildare Thomas Hartwood (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Loner Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Novak Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Paul Crain (Guest Star) 1965