Tony Bill

Highest Rated: 100% Easy Riders---Raging Bulls (2003)

Lowest Rated: 28% Barb Wire (1996)

Birthday: Aug 23, 1940

Birthplace: San Diego, California, USA

A former English and Art major at Notre Dame University, Tony Bill was fortunate enough to work with Frank Sinatra in his first film, Come Blow Your Horn. "Old Blue Eyes" took a liking to Bill, securing him parts in the subsequent Sinatra vehicles None but the Brave (1965) and Marriage on the Rocks (1968), and helping to open several professional doors for the young actor. After this promising start, Bill settled into a string of colorless juvenile roles. Feeling that his acting career wasn't going anyplace in particular, he formed a production company with Michael and Julia Phillips, turning out two "trendy" feature films, Deadhead Miles (1972) and Steelyard Blues (1973). Scoring a significant success with the Oscar-winning The Sting (1973), Bill parted company with the Phillipses, soloing as producer of Hearts of the West (1975), Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976), and Boulevard Nights (1979). In 1980, he decided to give directing a try, and the result was the engaging teen-angst drama My Bodyguard (1980). Additional directorial credits include the theatrical features Five Corners (1988), Crazy People (1990), and A Home of Our Own (1993), and the made-for-TV movies Love Thy Neighbor (1984), One Christmas (1988), and Next Door (1994). Despite his executive responsibilities, Tony Bill has kept a hand in acting, most amusingly in the semi-autobiographical role of Warner Bros. executive Terry Hawthorne in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985). Increasingly active behind the camera as the 1980s gave way to the 1990s, Bill would stick almost exclusively to television following Next Door as he alternated between series work (Chicago Hope and Felicity) and made for television features (Beyond the Call, Iliver Twist, and A Chance of Snow). Of course once an actor always an actor, and when given the opportunity to appear before the camera in such efforts as Barb Wire, The Fixer, and Lying in Wait, Bill was always keen to perform. Subsequent directorial work on such television series' as UC: Undercover, Monk, and Keen Eddy found Bill's career receiving something of a second wind as the new millennium blew in, and in the wake of his success with the Emmy-nominated made for television feature Harlan County War the longtime filmmaker would take to the skies to call the shots for some of the hottest young stars of the day in the 2006 World War I adventure Flyboys. A historical war film documenting the cloud-cutting adventures of America's very first fighter pilots, Flyboys featured hot young actors James Franco, Martin Henderson, and David Ellison performing alongside such experienced screen veterans as Jean Reno and Tchéky Karyo.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
48%	Going in Style	Executive Producer	$45.1M	2017
94%	Casting By	Actor	$14.5K	2013
No Score Yet	Pictures of Hollis Woods	Director	—	2007
33%	Flyboys	Director Screenwriter	$13.1M	2006
No Score Yet	One Six Right: The Romance of Flying	Actor	—	2006
36%	Must Love Dogs	Walter	$43.9M	2005
83%	Inside Deep Throat	Actor	$0.5M	2005
100%	Easy Riders---Raging Bulls	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	In the Time of the Butterflies	Executive Producer	—	2003
No Score Yet	Last Call	Executive Producer	—	2002
No Score Yet	Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story	Director	—	2002
No Score Yet	Harlan County War	Director	—	2000
No Score Yet	Naked City Justice With A Bullet	Mickey Calvin	—	1999
No Score Yet	A Chance of Snow	Director	—	1998
No Score Yet	The Fixer	Producer	—	1998
No Score Yet	Rescuers: Stories of Courage---Two Families	Director	—	1998
No Score Yet	Oliver Twist	Director	—	1997
No Score Yet	Beyond the Call	Director Producer	—	1996
28%	Barb Wire	Foster	—	1996
No Score Yet	One Christmas	Director	—	1994
No Score Yet	Vecinos	Director	—	1994
54%	Untamed Heart	Director Actor Producer	—	1993
50%	A Home of Our Own	Director	—	1993
37%	Crazy People	Director	—	1990
No Score Yet	The Killing Mind	Thomas Quinn	—	1990
52%	Less Than Zero	Bradford Easton	—	1987
78%	Five Corners	Producer Director	—	1987
87%	Pee-wee's Big Adventure	Terry Hawthorne	—	1985
No Score Yet	Love Thy Neighbor	Director	—	1984
No Score Yet	Six Weeks	Director	—	1982
No Score Yet	Goin' All the Way!	Producer	—	1982
No Score Yet	Washington Mistress	Alan	—	1981
83%	My Bodyguard	Director	—	1980
No Score Yet	The Little Dragons	Niles Producer Executive Producer	—	1980
No Score Yet	Heart Beat	Dick	—	1980
No Score Yet	Portrait of an Escort	Actor	—	1980
No Score Yet	Boulevard Nights	Executive Producer Producer	—	1979
82%	Going in Style	Producer	—	1979
No Score Yet	Are You in the House Alone?	Neil Osborne	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Initiation of Sarah	Actor	—	1978
63%	Harry and Walter Go to New York	Producer Executive Producer	—	1976
86%	Hearts Of The West (Hollywood Cowboy)	Executive Producer Producer	—	1975
No Score Yet	Las Vegas Lady	Bob	—	1975
59%	Shampoo	Johnny Pope	—	1975
93%	The Sting	Producer	—	1973
60%	Steelyard Blues	Producer	—	1973
No Score Yet	Slay Ride	Actor	—	1972
No Score Yet	Haunts of the Very Rich	Lyle	—	1972
No Score Yet	Deadhead Miles	Producer	—	1972
No Score Yet	Flap	Eleven Snowflake	—	1970
38%	Castle Keep	Lt. Adam Amberjack	—	1969
43%	Ice Station Zebra	Lt. Russell Walker	—	1968
No Score Yet	Never a Dull Moment	Florian	—	1968
82%	You're a Big Boy Now	Raef	—	1966
No Score Yet	Marriage on the Rocks	Jim Blake	—	1965
No Score Yet	None But the Brave	Air Crewman Keller	—	1965
No Score Yet	Soldier in the Rain	Pfc. Jerry Meltzer	—	1963
75%	Come Blow Your Horn	Buddy Baker	—	1963

TV

		Credit
94%	Pitch 2016	Executive Producer	2016
92%	Leverage 2008-2012	Director	2009
90%	Monk 2002-2009	Director	2004
No Score Yet	UC: Undercover 2001-2002	Director	2002 2001
No Score Yet	Felicity 1998-2002	Director	2002 2001 2000
No Score Yet	Chicago Hope 1994-2000	Director	2000
50%	Gideon's Crossing 2000-2001	Director	2000
97%	Moonlighting 1985-1989	Scott "Mad Dog" Hundley	1987
No Score Yet	Murder, She Wrote 1984-1996	Mark Reynolds	1986
No Score Yet	St. Elsewhere 1982-1988	Brian Whitehill	1982
100%	The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1964-1968	Steven	1968
No Score Yet	Bonanza 1959-1973	Charlie Two	1966

QUOTES FROM Tony Bill CHARACTERS

Terry Hawthorne says: Son, we think that your story will be a great movie.