---
name: "Bill Cardille"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-cardille"
fi1m_id: "bill-cardille"
imdb_id: "nm0136439"
tmdb_id: 97921
wikidata_id: "Q4908411"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 December 1928"
died: "21 July 2016"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T16:45:10.656501+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Bill Cardille

## Identity

Bill Cardille

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-cardille
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-cardille
- **IMDb ID:** nm0136439
- **TMDB ID:** 97921
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4908411
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cardille, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4908411, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136439/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97921

Actor. Born 10 December 1928 in Farrell. Died 21 July 2016.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 December 1928, Farrell
- **Died:** 21 July 2016
- **Also known as:** Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cardille, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4908411, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0136439/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/97921

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Night of the Living Dead*](https://film.one/film/night-of-the-living-dead.md) (88)

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## Biography

Bill Cardille (1928–2016), also known as Chilly Billy, was an American broadcast personality and actor from the Pittsburgh area. He began his television career in the early 1950s and became a fixture on WIIC (later WPXI) in Pittsburgh, hosting programmes including the long-running late-night horror show Chiller Theater from 1963 to 1984.

Cardille is best known to wider audiences for his appearance as a field reporter in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), playing a fictionalised version of himself; he reprised a similar role in the 1990 remake. He also worked in radio, hosted the local Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon for many years, and was the father of actress Lori Cardille.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Night of the Living Dead* (1968), Fi1m 88, as Field Reporter — [page](https://film.one/film/night-of-the-living-dead.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Milkman* (2015), as News Anchor
- *Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror* (2005), as Field Reporter (archive footage) (as Bill 'Chilly Billy' Cardille)
- *The Assassination File* (1996), as Reporter #5
- *A Chiller Theater Reunion* (1991), as Chilly Billy
- *Night of the Living Dead* (1990), as T.V. Interviewer
- *Creepy Classics* (1987), as Field Reporter - (archive footage)
- *Night of the Living Dead* (1968), as Field Reporter — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/night-of-the-living-dead.md)

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