---
name: "William Gates"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/william-gates"
fi1m_id: "william-gates"
imdb_id: "nm0309637"
tmdb_id: 134119
wikidata_id: "Q8009721"
roles: []
born: "28 December 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:58:57.947256+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."
---

# William Gates

## Identity

William Gates

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/william-gates
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** william-gates
- **IMDb ID:** nm0309637
- **TMDB ID:** 134119
- **Wikidata ID:** Q8009721
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gates_(basketball), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8009721, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309637/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134119

Actor. Born 28 December 1971 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Born:** 28 December 1971, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gates_(basketball), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8009721, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309637/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134119

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hoop Dreams*](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md) (92)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

William Gates (born 28 December 1971) is an American actor and former basketball player from Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for appearing as himself in the 1994 documentary film *Hoop Dreams*, which followed his high school and college basketball career alongside Arthur Agee.

Gates played three seasons for Marquette University between 1991 and 1995. His other screen credit includes the role of Teammate #2 in an episode of the television series *Early Edition* (1996). He later became a pastor and co-hosts a podcast with Agee.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hoop Dreams* (1994), Fi1m 92, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/hoop-dreams.md)

## Complete filmography (2)

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

- *Life After Hoop Dreams* (2015), Actor
- *Early Edition* (1996), series, as Teammate #2

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