Bill Condon Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Yet another shining example of the former genre filmmaker who has since emerged to become one of Hollywood's premier players (see Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson), writer/director Bill Condon first made an impression on audiences with the clever slasher parody Strange Behavior (1981) before breaking...Read More

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Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Alec Baldwin, Dan Aykroyd, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd, and Jennifer Love Hewitt star in this re-imagining of Walter Huston's The Devil and Daniel Webster - this time concerning a struggling writer who sells his soul to Old Scratch (Hewitt) in a desperate bid to find fame and fortune on the Read More

7/13/07
Dreamgirls

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Danny Glover, Anika Noni Rose, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal

Synopsis: Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical to the big screen in a tale of dreams, stardom, and the high cost of success in the cutthroat recording industry. The time is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles Read More

12/15/06
Kinsey

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton

Synopsis: Alfred Kinsey was an entomologist who taught at Indiana University and had a keen interest in an area of human behavior that had seen little scholarly research -- human sexuality. While the courtship and reproductive patterns of animals had been carefully documented, Kinsey believed that most Read More

11/12/04
Chicago

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: A starry-eyed would-be star discovers just how far the notion that "there's no such thing as bad publicity" can go in this screen adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Chicago, originally directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. In the mid-'20s, Roxie Hart (Renee Zellweger) is a small-time chorus Read More

12/27/02
Gods and Monsters

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Gods and Monsters was promoted from the outset as an artistic drama, but the publicity tended to play coyly on the possibility of a homosexual romance between the retired film director James Whale, played by Ian McKellen and his hunky gardener Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser). While the film does Read More

11/6/98
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, Timothy Carhart, Veronica Cartwright, William O'Leary

Synopsis: This sequel to director Bernard Rose's superb, metaphorical Candyman is a more straightforward Gothic horror project, discarding any association with the events of the previous film (which was based on the short story "The Forbidden" by horror surrealist Clive Barker) aside from the title entity Read More

1995
The Man Who Wouldn't Die

Crew: Director

Actors: Nancy Allen, Roger Moore

Synopsis: Roger Moore stars as a writer whose art imitates life in this made-for-TV thriller. Moore stars as Ken Brown, a mystery writer who's central character is based on the profile of a real-life criminal. When the criminal (Malcolm McDowell) escapes from prison by faking his death, he sets out to bring Read More

1995
Deadly Relations

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Urich, Shelley Fabares, Roxana Zal, Gwyneth Paltrow

Synopsis: In this brooding drama, the lives of four sisters are nearly destroyed by the machinations of their overbearing father. He singles out one daughter in particular to take part in a deadly insurance scam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
F/X 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Joanna Gleason, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: In F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion, Bryan Brown returns as movie special effects designer Rollie Tyler. Having barely escaped with his life after being duped and exploited by the villains in the first F/X, he isn't too eager to channel his talents into police work again. He'd much rather design Read More

5/10/91
Murder 101

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Dey Young, Raphael Sbarge, Mark L. Taylor, Kim Thomson, Antoni Corone

Synopsis: After English professor Charles Lattimore (Pierce Brosnan) assigns his class to plot the perfect murder, he finds himself the prime suspect in a police investigation after a student and another faculty member wind up dead. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Dead in the Water

Crew: Director

Actors: Bryan Brown, Teri Hatcher, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Made for cable TV, this thriller finds a lawyer (Bryan Brown) plotting the murder of his wealthy wife so he can make off with his secretary. The wrong person ends up dead, however, and he finds himself accused of the crime. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
White Lie

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Hines, Annette O'Toole, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: In White Lie, a drama based on Samuel Charters' novel Louisiana Black, Gregory Hines plays Len Madison Jr., a New York-based mayoral press secretary who learns that his father was lynched in the South three decades earlier. Madison returns to the South, where he is intent on learning the truth Read More

1991
Sister, Sister

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey, Dennis Lipscomb, Anne Pitoniak

Synopsis: In this thriller, sisters Charlotte (Judith Ivey) and Lucy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) Bonnard reside in the Louisiana home left to them by their parents. As Charlotte cares for her troubled younger sister, the two make a living by renting out rooms in the huge, gloomy mansion. However, when Matt Read More

1987
Strange Invaders

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Nancy Allen, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: In this subtly humorous, alien-invasion film by Michael Laughlin, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Condon, the aliens infiltrate a small Midwestern town in 1958 and beam the "spirits" of several of the townspeople up to their spacecraft in little blue bubbles, while they settle into the Read More

1983
Strange Behavior

Crew: Associate Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Dead Kids, aka Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an abortive "Strange Trilogy" which also included 1983's Strange Invaders. Although lensed in New Zealand, the film is set in a sleepy American town, in which a series of gory Read More

1981