Wlliam Vail (born November 30, 1950) is an American set decorator and actorbest known for his role as "Kirk" in the 1974 American horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Vail was born in San Antonio, Texas. He began his film career in 1974, when he played the character of "Kirk" in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He then starred in three more films titled Poltergeist (1982), Mausoleum (1983), and Glitch! (1988). He then decided to switch as a Set Decorator in the film, A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (1989). He continues to work as a Set Decorator, and has recently helped with the TV Movie, The Craigslist Killer (2011).

Filmography

• 2013Texas Chainsaw 3D — Kirk (archive footage)
• 2012Blue Lagoon: The Awakening — Set Decoration
• 2011The Craigslist Killer — Set Decoration
• 2010Amish Grace — Set Decoration
• 2010Lies in Plain Sight — Set Decoration
• 2000American Tragedy — Set Decoration
• 1996Deadly Web — Set Decoration
• 1996Riders of the Purple Sage — Set Decoration
• 1995The West Side Waltz — Set Decoration
• 1994Another Midnight Run — Set Decoration
• 1994Midnight Run Around — Set Decoration
• 1994Midnight Run for Your Life — Set Decoration
• 1994The Enemy Within — Set Decoration
• Laurel Avenue — Set Decoration
• Red Shoe Diaries — Set Decoration
• 1991Chernobyl: The Final Warning — Art Direction
• Love, Lies and Murder — Set Decoration
• 1991White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd — Set Decoration
• 1990A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder — Set Decoration
• 1990Return to Green Acres — Set Decoration
• 1990Too Young to Die — Set Decoration
• 1989A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story — Set Decoration
• 1988Glitch! — Angry Valet
• 1983Mausoleum — The Final Demon (as Bill Vail)
• 1982Poltergeist — Implosion Man
• 1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — Kirk

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2026Scum of the Earth — Self
• 2020Rondo and Bob — Self
• 2000Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth — Self
• 2000The American Nightmare — Self