---
name: "Tony Bill"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tony-bill"
fi1m_id: "tony-bill"
imdb_id: "nm0082300"
tmdb_id: 57138
wikidata_id: "Q588745"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "23 August 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T04:02:45.601215+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."
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# Tony Bill

## Identity

Tony Bill

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tony-bill
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tony-bill
- **IMDb ID:** nm0082300
- **TMDB ID:** 57138
- **Wikidata ID:** Q588745
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bill, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q588745, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57138

Producer and director. Born 23 August 1940 in San Diego, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 23 August 1940, San Diego, California, USA
- **Active:** 1973–1998
- **Also known as:** Gerard Anthony Bill
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bill, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q588745, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082300/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57138

## Biography

Gerard Anthony 'Tony' Bill (born 23 August 1940) is an American actor, producer and director. He produced the 1973 film *The Sting*, for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips.

Bill graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1962 with majors in English and art. He began his career as an actor in the 1960s, with early roles including *Come Blow Your Horn* (1963). His acting credits also include *Shampoo* (1975), *Pee-wee's Big Adventure* (1985) and *Less Than Zero* (1987).

He made his directorial debut with *My Bodyguard* (1980) and has directed films including *Six Weeks* (1982), *Five Corners* (1987), *Crazy People* (1990), *A Home of Our Own* (1993) and *Flyboys* (2006), as well as television episodes and films.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Sting* (1973), Fi1m 85, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-sting.md)

## Complete filmography (91)

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

- *Going in Style* (2017), Executive Producer
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as Guardian Editor — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *Leverage* (2008), series, as Pierson · Director
- *Pictures of Hollis Woods* (2007), Director
- *Flyboys* (2006), Director
- *Must Love Dogs* (2005), as Walter
- *Law & Order: Trial by Jury* (2005), series, as Kurt Lascher
- *Keen Eddie* (2003), series, Director
- *Monk* (2002), series, Director
- *Last Call* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story* (2002), Director
- *Glory Days* (2002), series, Director
- *In the Time of the Butterflies* (2001), Executive Producer
- *UC: Undercover* (2001), series, Director
- *Lying in Wait* (2001), as Detective Mike
- *Harlan County War* (2000), Director
- *A Chance of Snow* (1998), Director
- *Naked City: Justice with a Bullet* (1998), as Mickey Calvin
- *To Have & to Hold* (1998), series, Director
- *Felicity* (1998), series, Director
- *Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families* (1998), Director
- *The Visitor* (1997), series, Director
- *Oliver Twist* (1997), Director
- *Beyond the Call* (1996), Director, Producer
- *Barb Wire* (1996), as Foster
- *High Incident* (1996), series, Director
- *One Christmas* (1994), Director
- *Next Door* (1994), Director
- *A Home of Our Own* (1993), Narrator, Director
- *Untamed Heart* (1993), Director, Producer
- *The Killing Mind* (1991), as Thomas Quinn
- *Crazy People* (1990), Director
- *Dirty Dancing* (1988), series, Director
- *Less Than Zero* (1987), as Bradford Easton
- *Five Corners* (1987), Director, Producer
- *2 1/2 Dads* (1986), Director
- *Pee-wee's Big Adventure* (1985), as Terry Hawthorne
- *Moonlighting* (1985), series, as Scott Huntley — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/moonlighting.md)
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), series, as Mark Lee Reynolds
- *Love Thy Neighbor* (1984), Director
- *The Princess and the Pea* (1984), Director
- *Running Out* (1983), as Paul Corsini
- *Six Weeks* (1982), Director
- *St. Elsewhere* (1982), series, as Brian Whitehill — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/st-elsewhere.md)
- *Faerie Tale Theatre* (1982), series, Director
- *Hotel* (1982), series, as Mike
- *Washington Mistress* (1982), as Alan
- *Freedom* (1981), as Richard
- *Portrait of an Escort* (1980), as Beau Simpson
- *The Little Dragons* (1980), as Niles
- *My Bodyguard* (1980), Director
- *Heart Beat* (1980), as Dick
- *Going in Style* (1979), Producer
- *Boulevard Nights* (1979), Executive Producer
- *Are You in the House Alone?* (1978), as Neil Osborne
- *With This Ring* (1978), as Peter Turner
- *The Initiation of Sarah* (1978), as Paul Yates
- *What Really Happened to the Class of '65?* (1977), series, Actor
- *Having Babies II* (1977), as Aaron Canfield
- *Washington: Behind Closed Doors* (1977), series, as Adam Gardiner
- *Harry and Walter Go to New York* (1976), Executive Producer
- *The Ransom of Red Chief* (1975), Director
- *Hearts of the West* (1975), Producer
- *Las Vegas Lady* (1975), as Bob
- *Shampoo* (1975), as Johnny Pope
- *The Sting* (1973), Producer — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/the-sting.md)
- *Steelyard Blues* (1973), Producer
- *Haunts of the Very Rich* (1972), as Lyle
- *Flap* (1970), as Eleven Snowflake
- *Lanton Mills* (1969), as Mute
- *Castle Keep* (1969), as Lt. Amberjack
- *How to Steal the World* (1968), as Steven Garrow
- *Never a Dull Moment* (1968), as Florian
- *Ice Station Zebra* (1968), as Lt. Russell Walker
- *You're a Big Boy Now* (1966), as Raef del Grado
- *Death of a Salesman* (1966), as Biff
- *Lee Oswald: Assassin* (1966), as Lee Harvey Oswald
- *BBC Play of the Month* (1965), series, as Lee Harvey Oswald, Biff
- *Marriage on the Rocks* (1965), as Jim Blake
- *The Loner* (1965), series, as Jody Merriman
- *Run for Your Life* (1965), series, as Charlie Carson
- *None But the Brave* (1965), as Air Crewman Keller
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964), series, as Steve Garrow
- *Theatre 625* (1964), series, as Grayson Hinks
- *Soldier in the Rain* (1963), as Jerry Meltzer
- *Mr. Novak* (1963), series, as Chris Herrod
- *Come Blow Your Horn* (1963), as Buddy Baker
- *The Virginian* (1962), series, as Clipper Ellis
- *Ben Casey* (1961), series, Actor
- *Dr. Kildare* (1961), series, as Thomas Hartwood
- *Bonanza* (1959), series, as Charlie Two

## Gallery

- ![Tony Bill](https://film.one/media/person/103559/gallery-50870926e2af.jpg) Tony Bill — ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Tony_Bill_1977.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photo of Frances Lee McCain and Tony Bill from the 1977 television miniseries "Washington:Behind Closed Doors".](https://film.one/media/person/103559/gallery-656659af65b6.jpg) Photo of Frances Lee McCain and Tony Bill from the 1977 television miniseries "Washington:Behind Closed Doors". — ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Frances_Lee_McCain_Tony_Bill_1977.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actor and filmmaker Tony Bill (1978)](https://film.one/media/person/103559/gallery-b5e2447e532c.jpg) Actor and filmmaker Tony Bill (1978) — Larry Bessel, Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Tony_Bill.jpg/1280px-Tony_Bill.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Tony Bill](https://film.one/media/person/103559/gallery-934667a8f691.jpg) Tony Bill — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1974: Best Picture (won), for *The Sting*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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