Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English-born American actor, film director, and film writer, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston Esq. in the three films in the Bill & Ted series (1989-2020). He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film Freaked.

Filmography

• 2026Primetime — Bill Conradt
• 2025Absolute Dominion — Dr. Jehuda Bruno, Producer
• 2025Adulthood — Doug Metzger, Producer, Director
• 2025Medium Rare Cold Case — Timmy
• 2025Smurfs — Hefty Smurf (voice)
• 2025Waiting for Godot — Vladimir
• 2024Destroy All Neighbors — Vlad / Public Defender, Producer
• Horror's Greatest — Self - Actor & Co-Director, Freaked
• Full Circle — Widmer
• 2023Sandtown — Executive Producer
• 2023The YouTube Effect — Self, Director, Writer, Producer
• 2022Blue's Big City Adventure — Cab Driver
• 2020Bill & Ted Face the Music — Bill, Executive Producer
• Green Blood — Producer
• 2020Showbiz Kids — Self, Director, Producer, Writer
• 2020Zappa — Director, Producer
• 2018The Body — The Voice
• 2018The Panama Papers — Writer, Producer, Director
• 2018Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain — Director, Producer, Writer
• 2017Trump's Lobby — Director, Producer
• 2016Anyone Can Quantum — Cameo, Director
• 2016Quantum Is Calling — Director, Producer
• 2016Relatively Free — Himself, Filmmaker (uncredited), Director, Producer
• 2015Deep Web — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2015Smosh: The Movie — Uncle Keith (uncredited), Director
• Betas — Director
• 2013Downloaded — Director
• 2013Grand Piano — Assistant
• Level Up — Director
• 2010Blue Beetle: Test Trailer — Director
• Blue Mountain State — Director
• 2009Ben 10: Alien Swarm — Nanomech (voice), Director, Executive Producer
• 2008Ben 10: Race Against Time — Constantine Jacobs, Director, Executive Producer
• Saul of the Mole Men — King Mole Man (voice)
• Bones — Monte Gold
• 2003Tabla Beat Science: Talamanam Sound Clash — Director
• 1999Fever — Director, Writer
• 1997The Borrowers — TV Gangster
• 1993Freaked — Ricky Coogan, Director, Writer, Co-Producer
• 1993Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's — Stinx On Ice
• 1992Meals on Wheels — Dweeb, Writer, Director
• 1991Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey — Bill / Granny Preston
• The Idiot Box — Self, Director, Creator
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures — Bill S. Preston (voice)
• 1990Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come — Howie, Director, Writer
• The Word
• 1989Aisles of Doom — Grendel T.W. Ulcerous, Writer, Director
• 1989Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure — Bill S. Preston
• 1989Impact Video Magazine
• 1989Rosalie Goes Shopping — Schatzi Greenspace
• 1988Bar-B-Que Movie — Mexican Hitchhiker, Director
• 1988Haunted Summer — Dr. John William Polidori
• 1987Medium Rare — Timmy
• 1987The Lost Boys — Marko
• 1985Death Wish 3 — Hermosa
• 1985Squeal of Death — Howie / Various Characters, Director, Writer
• The Equalizer — Jeffrey
• 1980Gauguin the Savage — Clovis
• 61 Suns — Thanks
• Relapse — Spoony

Appearances as themselves (19)

• 2024In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 — Self
• George Carlin's American Dream — Self
• 2022In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self
• 2022In Search of Tomorrow — Self - Interviewee
• 2021This Is GWAR — Self
• 2020In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self
• 2020Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! A Look Back at a Most "Excellent Adventure" — Self
• 2019In Search of Darkness — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction — Self
• 2016Banking on Bitcoin — Himself
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films — Self - Actor
• The Real History of Science Fiction — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• 1990Gorgon Video Magazine Vol. 2 — Self
• 1990Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1 — Self