Tony Bill

Tony Bill has worked as a producer, director and actor, and he shared a Best Picture Academy Award for producing The Sting with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. Born in San Diego, he studied English and art at Notre Dame, graduating in 1962. On screen from the 1960s, he specialized in juveniles and young leads, debuting in Come Blow Your Horn (1963) as Frank Sinatra's younger brother, and that year also acted in Soldier in the Rain. Later roles came in Shampoo (1975), Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Less Than Zero (1987), Ice Station Zebra (1968) and Castle Keep (1969). He made his directing debut with My Bodyguard (1980), then directed Six Weeks, Five Corners, Crazy People, Untamed Heart, A Home of Our Own (1993) and Flyboys. He also directed television films such as One Christmas, Harlan County War and Pictures of Hollis Woods, and in 2009 published Movie Speak, a book about the language of film sets.