---
name: "Bill Lancaster"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-lancaster"
fi1m_id: "bill-lancaster"
imdb_id: "nm0484111"
tmdb_id: 15406
wikidata_id: "Q707079"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "17 November 1947"
died: "4 January 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T08:20:11.895975+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 Lancaster

## Identity

Bill Lancaster

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-lancaster
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-lancaster
- **IMDb ID:** nm0484111
- **TMDB ID:** 15406
- **Wikidata ID:** Q707079
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lancaster, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707079, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15406

Writer. Born 17 November 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 4 January 1997.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 17 November 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 4 January 1997
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lancaster, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q707079, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0484111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15406

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Thing*](https://film.one/film/the-thing.md) (88)

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## Biography

Bill Lancaster was an American screenwriter and actor. Born William Henry Lancaster on 17 November 1947 in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of actor Burt Lancaster and Norma Anderson. He began his career with small acting roles in the 1960s and 1970s before turning to screenwriting.

Lancaster wrote the screenplay for *The Bad News Bears* (1976) and its sequel *The Bad News Bears Go to Japan* (1978). He is also known for his adapted screenplay for John Carpenter's *The Thing* (1982), based on the novella *Who Goes There?* by John W. Campbell Jr. He died on 4 January 1997 in Los Angeles.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Thing* (1982), Fi1m 88, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-thing.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Guys' Night in The Thing* (2025), Original Film Writer
- *Bad News Bears* (2005), Screenplay
- *The Thing* (1982), Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-thing.md)
- *The Bad News Bears Go to Japan* (1978), Writer, Co-Producer
- *The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training* (1977), Characters
- *The Bad News Bears* (1976), Writer
- *Moses the Lawgiver* (1976), as Der junge Moses
- *Moses the Lawgiver* (1974), series, as Young Moses
- *The Midnight Man* (1974), as Arthur King

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