Gerard Anthony "Tony" Bill (born August 23, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. He produced the 1973 movie The Sting, for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. He majored in English and art at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, from which he graduated in 1962. Bill 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), Never a Dull Moment (1968), Ice Station Zebra (1968), Shampoo (1975), The Little Dragons (1980), Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), and Less Than Zero (1987). Bill continued to act in TV-movies, miniseries, and guest spots though with decreasing frequency as he segued into directing. He appeared in the 1966 episode "Chaff In The Wind" of the long running western The Virginian. He then appeared in 1967 episode "The Predators" of NBC's western series The Road West starring Barry Sullivan. In 1980, Bill directed his first film, My Bodyguard. From there he went on to direct Six Weeks (1982), Five Corners (1987), Crazy People (1990) A Home of Our Own (1993), and Flyboys (2006) which Bill claims was one of the first features shot entirely with digital cameras. In television Bill directed Truman Capote's One Christmas, Harlan County War, and Pictures of Hollis Woods, among others. In 2009, Bill published the book Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set. The book traces the etymology of the language of the movie set and is filled out with stories from the Bill's career in film. From 1984-2000, he co-owned with Dudley Moore the celebrated 72 Market Street, a restaurant in Venice, California. He is married to his second wife, the former Helen Buck Bartlett, his producer/partner in Barnstorm Films in Venice. The couple have two daughters, Madeline and Daphne. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Bill, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2017Going in Style — Executive Producer
• The Crown — Guardian Editor
• Leverage — Pierson, Director
• 2007Pictures of Hollis Woods — Director
• 2006Flyboys — Director
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury — Kurt Lascher
• 2005Must Love Dogs — Walter
• Keen Eddie — Director
• Glory Days — Director
• 2002Last Call — Executive Producer
• Monk — Director
• 2002Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story — Director
• 2001In the Time of the Butterflies — Executive Producer
• 2001Lying in Wait — Detective Mike
• UC: Undercover — Director
• 2000Harlan County War — Director
• 1998A Chance of Snow — Director
• Felicity — Director
• 1998Naked City: Justice with a Bullet — Mickey Calvin
• 1998Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families — Director
• To Have & to Hold — Director
• 1997Oliver Twist — Director
• The Visitor — Director
• 1996Barb Wire — Foster
• 1996Beyond the Call — Director, Producer
• High Incident — Director
• 1994Next Door — Director
• 1994One Christmas — Director
• 1993A Home of Our Own — Narrator, Director
• 1993Untamed Heart — Director, Producer
• 1991The Killing Mind — Thomas Quinn
• 1990Crazy People — Director
• Dirty Dancing — Director
• 1987Five Corners — Director, Producer
• 1987Less Than Zero — Bradford Easton
• 19862 1/2 Dads — Director
• Moonlighting — Scott Huntley
• 1985Pee-wee's Big Adventure — Terry Hawthorne
• 1984Love Thy Neighbor — Director
• Murder, She Wrote — Mark Lee Reynolds
• 1984The Princess and the Pea — Director
• 1983Running Out — Paul Corsini
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Director
• Hotel — Mike
• 1982Six Weeks — Director
• St. Elsewhere — Brian Whitehill
• 1982Washington Mistress — Alan
• 1981Freedom — Richard
• 1980Heart Beat — Dick
• 1980My Bodyguard — Director
• 1980Portrait of an Escort — Beau Simpson
• 1980The Little Dragons — Niles
• 1979Boulevard Nights — Executive Producer
• 1979Going in Style — Producer
• 1978Are You in the House Alone? — Neil Osborne
• 1978The Initiation of Sarah — Paul Yates
• 1978With This Ring — Peter Turner
• 1977Having Babies II — Aaron Canfield
• Washington: Behind Closed Doors — Adam Gardiner
• What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
• 1976Harry and Walter Go to New York — Executive Producer
• 1975Hearts of the West — Producer
• 1975Las Vegas Lady — Bob
• 1975Shampoo — Johnny Pope
• 1975The Ransom of Red Chief — Director
• 1973Steelyard Blues — Producer
• 1973The Sting — Producer
• 1972Haunts of the Very Rich — Lyle
• 1970Flap — Eleven Snowflake
• 1969Castle Keep — Lt. Amberjack
• 1969Lanton Mills — Mute
• 1968How to Steal the World — Steven Garrow
• 1968Ice Station Zebra — Lt. Russell Walker
• 1968Never a Dull Moment — Florian
• 1966Death of a Salesman — Biff
• 1966Lee Oswald: Assassin — Lee Harvey Oswald
• 1966You're a Big Boy Now — Raef del Grado
• BBC Play of the Month — Lee Harvey Oswald, Biff
• 1965Marriage on the Rocks — Jim Blake
• 1965None But the Brave — Air Crewman Keller
• Run for Your Life — Charlie Carson
• The Loner — Jody Merriman
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Steve Garrow
• Theatre 625 — Grayson Hinks
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Tony Pitts
• 1963Come Blow Your Horn — Buddy Baker
• Mr. Novak — Chris Herrod
• 1963Soldier in the Rain — Jerry Meltzer
• The Virginian — Clipper Ellis
• Ben Casey
• Dr. Kildare — Thomas Hartwood
• Bonanza — Charlie Two

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2013Salinger — Self - Filmmaker
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
• 1987Citizen Steve — Self - Actor
• 1975The Lion Roars Again — Self