Tony Bill Filmography

Flyboys

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: James Franco, Martin Henderson, David Ellison, Jennifer Decker, Jean Reno

Synopsis: As World War I rages in Europe and Allied forces in France, Italy, and England find their resolve quickly diminishing due to the overwhelming force of the German juggernaut, a handful of brave American soldiers volunteer to join their French counterparts in learning to fly and fighting for freedom Read More

Must Love Dogs

Actors: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: A woman finds herself drafted into the battle of finding the perfect man in this romantic comedy. Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) is a kindergarten teacher in her mid-thirties who is still dealing with the emotional aftermath of her divorce eight months ago. While her sisters, Christine (Ali Hillis) and Read More

Inside Deep Throat

Synopsis: Directors Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato follow up Party Monster by returning to the documentary form of their most popular film The Eyes of Tammy Faye. Rather than examining evangelists-cum-gay icons, this time the duo takes aim at the cultural phenomenon that is and was Deep Throat, the Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The grandmother of law student Julie Parlo (Rachel Dratch) is kidnapped, apparently by a long-dormant 1970s radical group called the Lightning Brigade. Though grandma is returned unharmed, Julie asks Monk (Tony Shalhoub) to locate the old woman's abductors, promising to get him reinstated to the Read More

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Actors: Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black

Synopsis: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European Read More

Keen Eddie [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Valley, Sienna Miller, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alexei Sayle, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: Filmed on-location in London, the FOX cop series Keen Eddie starred Mark Valley as Eddie Arlette, a New York City police detective. Disgraced and nearly dismissed after a spectacularly botched drug bust, Eddie was ordered to transfer to London's Scotland Yard so that he might rebuild his career Read More

Last Call

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Neve Campbell, Sissy Spacek, Natalie Radford

Synopsis: This made-for-cable biopic was based on Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald, the memoirs of Frances Kroll Ring. The film covers the years 1939 through 1940, when Frances Kroll (Neve Campbell) served as Fitzgerald's secretary. Once the most celebrated and idolistic novelist of Read More

UC: Undercover [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Vera Farmiga, Oded Fehr, William Forsythe, Bruklin Harris, Jarrad Paul

Synopsis: One of several government-espionage series unveiled during the 2001-2002 TV season, UC: Undercover detailed the exploits of the Special Operations Group, an elite five-person team answerable only to the Justice Department. Using up-to-date technology and advanced martial arts skills, the Group was Read More

In the Time of the Butterflies

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Salma Hayek, Marc Anthony, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Based on the book by Julia Alvarez, this fact-based drama tells the story of a woman who, along with her family, found the courage to defy a corrupt dictator -- and paid a fearful price for their actions. Minerva Mirabal (Salma Hayek) and her sisters Patria (Lumi Cavazos), Mate (Mia Maestro), and Read More

Harlan County War

Crew: Director

Actors: Holly Hunter, Stellan Skarsgård, Ted Levine, Wayne Robson

Synopsis: The true story of one of the most contentious labor disputes of the 1970s is the basis for this made-for-cable drama. In 1973, many of the men of Harlan County, Kentucky, were employed by Brookside Mining, who operated a number of coal mines. Brookside paid its employees meager wages for Read More

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Families

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Rapaport, Robin Tunney, Daryl Hannah

Synopsis: This film from the "Rescuers" series, based on true stories of Christians who helped save the lives of Jews during World War II, concerns a woman (Robin Tunney) who becomes involved with a man (Michael Rappaport) who has been exiled to a Jewish ghetto by the Nazis. Meanwhile, a couple who run a Read More

A Chance of Snow

Crew: Director

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Michael Ontkean, Charles Durning, Barbara Barrie, Dey Young

Synopsis: It is hardly an unusual occurrence when the Minneapolis airport is snowed in...even on Christmas eve, stranding thousands of disgruntled tourists. What makes this particular snowbound evening a bit different from others is the identity of two would-be flyers who must wait out the blizzard before Read More

Oliver Twist

Crew: Director

Actors: Elijah Wood, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Produced for television by Disney, this production of the often filmed Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist stars Elijah Wood as the Artful Dodger and Richard Dreyfuss as Fagin. The familiar tale follows the title character as he attempts to escape from the poverty and crime that surrounds him. Read More

Barb Wire

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Temuera Morrison, Victoria Rowell, Jack Noseworthy, Xander R. Berkeley

Synopsis: Set in the year 2017, Barb Wire takes place after democracy has fallen and a fascist military junta has taken over the U.S. government, plotting to wipe out the country with Red Ribbon, a laboratory-manufactured disease derived from the AIDS virus. The entire test city of Topeka has been Read More

Beyond the Call

Crew: Director

Actors: Sissy Spacek, David Strathairn, Arliss Howard, Janet Wright, Lindsay Murrell

Synopsis: In this well-wrought, moving drama from Hallmark Productions, a wife and mother puts her home life on the line when she launches a campaign to keep her ex-boyfriend, a convicted killer, off death row. Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek) loved Russell Gates (David Strathairn) in high school, but afterwards Read More

One Christmas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Henry Winkler star in this heartwarming Christmas drama adapted from a Truman Capote short story. In the film, a young boy is finally reunited with his dallying dad. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Next Door

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This black comedy about "keeping up with the Joneses" pits a sophisticated college professor and his schoolteacher wife against their next-door neighbors, a loutish beer-drinking butcher, his wife and their son. As each family's pranks against the other escalate, they also start to get crueler and Read More

A Home of Our Own

Crew: Director

Actors: Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Tony Campisi, Clarissa Lassig

Synopsis: Oscar-winner Kathy Bates stars in this tearjerker about a strong-willed widow determined to make it on her own. Bates is Frances Lacey, mother of six, left alone to provide for the family after her husband dies. Hoping to steer the kids away from the hazards on the streets of Los Angeles, she Read More

Untamed Heart

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Christian Slater, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Kyle Secor, Willie Garson

Synopsis: More than a decade after 1982's Six Weeks, director Tony Bill once again explored romance, sentimentality, and dying young with Untamed Heart. The film stars Christian Slater as Adam, an shy and awkward busboy who saves waitress Caroline (Marisa Tomei) from being raped in a park late one night. Read More

Crazy People

Crew: Director

Actors: Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah, Paul Reiser, Mercedes Ruehl, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Dudley Moore stars as Emory Lesson, an advertising genius whose finds himself committed to an insane asylum in Tony Bill's Crazy People. Emory becomes tired with creating phony ad campaigns and decides to create his own campaigns that tell the brutal truth. Since sex sells, Emory designs an Read More

The Killing Mind

Synopsis: Stephanie Zimbalist stars in this made-for-cable thriller as a L.A. detective who decides to re-open the case of a murder she herself witnessed as a child. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Five Corners

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Producer

Actors: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Quirky comedy, intense drama, and warm nostalgia are all combined in this eccentric look at one night in 1964 amongst the residents of the Five Corners neighborhood of the Bronx. The bulk of the film concerns Linda (Jodie Foster), a young woman who finds herself stalked by a disturbed rapist fresh Read More

Less Than Zero

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: This drama about affluent Los Angeles teens is taken from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Clay (Andrew McCarthy) is a college freshman who returns home during Christmas break. Clay's old flame Blair (Jamie Gertz) is now more interested in her new beau Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.), the fun-loving Read More

Moonlighting: Cool Hand Dave, Part 2

Synopsis: In this conclusion of a two-part story, David (Bruce Willis) attempts to escape from a chain gang in order to be reunited with his pregnant sweetheart Maddie (Cybill Shepherd, who is represented only by her voice in this episode). It looks like David's only hope for freedom is to follow the Read More

Moonlighting: Cool Hand Dave, Part 1

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, David (Bruce Willis) finally discovers that Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) is pregnant. En route from LA to Chicago for a (hopeful) reunion with Maddie, David is sidetracked by convict felon "Mad Dog" Hundley (played by Hollywood producer Tony Bill), and before Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Trial by Error

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is appointed foreman of the jury in an apparently "open and shut" murder trial. The accused claims that he killed the victim in self-defense, when said victim found the accused in bed with his wife. Half of the jury is for conviction, half for acquittal; as for Jessica Read More

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

Actors: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Judd Omen

Synopsis: Co-written by Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman, Pee Wee's Big Adventure marks the debut of director Tim Burton, who stamps the entire film with his quirky trademark style. The premise: Pee Wee (Reubens), an overgrown pre-pubescent boy sporting a molded Princeton cut, blush, lipstick, and a shrunken Read More

Love Thy Neighbor

Crew: Director

Actors: John Ritter, Bert Convy, Penny Marshall

Synopsis: See if you can predict the ending of this one. John Ritter and Cassie Yates are the next-door neighbors of Penny Marshall and Bert Convy. Ritter and Marshall can't stand each other. But presto! Ritters' wife Yates runs off with Marshall's husband Convy. The two spurned spouses meet to bemoan their Read More

Running Out

Synopsis: Tony Bill is a happy single parent, blessed with a violin prodigy daughter (Ari Meyers). Enter Deborah Raffin, Bill's ex, who deserted husband and child 12 years earlier. Now a sophisticated world traveller, Raffin implores Bill to let her see her daughter. Running Out is the sort of TV movie with Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Princess and the Pea

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A princess from an obscure kingdom (Liza Minnelli) must undergo an unusual test to prove her royal origins in this lively episode from Shelley Duvall's popular, family-oriented cable television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Six Weeks

Crew: Director

Actors: Dudley Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Bill Calvert

Synopsis: Tony Bill directed this sentimental weepie starring Dudley Moore as California politician Patrick Dalton. When Nicole (Katherine Healy), the daughter of the well-to-do Charlotte Dreyfus (Mary Tyler Moore) asks to work for his campaign, Patrick initially turns her down. But when he discovers that Read More

Goin' All the Way

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dan Waldman, Deborah Van Rhyn, Joshua Cadman, Sherry Miller, Joe Colligan

Synopsis: Here's a novelty: a "horny teenager" movie from the early 1980s. Goin' All the Way features the usual pair of pimply-faced high school boys trying to score with the opposite sex. Predictably (most everything in this film is predictable), there are plenty of humiliations along the way before Our Read More

Washington Mistress

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a married politician (Richard Jordan) and a spunky congressional aide (Lucie Arnaz) start up an adulterous affair that could land them both in hot water. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Freedom

Synopsis: After a particularly bitter argument with her divorced mother, teenager Libby Bellow (Mare Winningham) runs away from home. Eventually, she links up with a traveling carnival and takes on a variety of responsibilities, in so doing coming to the realization that her life at home might not have been Read More

My Bodyguard

Crew: Director

Actors: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Ruth Gordon, John Houseman, Martin Mull

Synopsis: This quietly compelling film explores the hardships and anxieties of high school with intelligence, sensitivity, warmth and humor. Chris Makepeace stars as a shy, bookish student who has recently moved to Chicago and begun a new school. There he finds himself the target of a group of punks led by Matt Dillon Read More

The Little Dragons

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Charles Lane, Ann Sothern, Chris Petersen, Pat Petersen, Sally Boyden

Synopsis: Preteen kung-fu masters are on the case when a young girl is kidnapped by hillbillies in this adventure for kids. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Portrait of an Escort

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Portrait of an Escort stars Susan Anspach as a divorcee in financial straits, has a daughter to support. She takes a job with a professional dating service, charging fifty dollars per customer. Anspach last client of the evening turns out to be a man whose intentions are apparently Read More

Freedom

Heart Beat

Actors: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, John Heard, Ray Sharkey, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: John Byrum wrote and directed this loosely based biographical tale of Beat author Jack Kerouac and Neal and Carolyn Cassady. John Heard stars as Jack Kerouac, and the film chronicles the Beat lifestyle that shaped the literary and social forces brewing and overflowing in Kerouac's imagination Read More

Boulevard Nights

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta Du Bois, James Victor, Betty Carvalho

Synopsis: A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

Going in Style

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in New York City. They live off social security checks and spend their days sitting on a park bench, reading newspapers, feeding pigeons, and fending off obnoxious children. It's a Read More

Are You in the House Alone?

Synopsis: This is an average made-for-TV thriller about a high-school student (Kathleen Beller) with a psychotic secret admirer. The usual stalking and false scares pad the 96 minutes between commercials, until Beller finally confronts her assailant. On a positive note, there is a good supporting cast, with Blythe Danner Read More

The Initiation of Sarah

Actors: Kay Lenz

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV shocker, a young sorority pledge (Kay Lenz) gets even for being humiliated in a hazing prank. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

With This Ring

Actors: John Forsythe, Scott Hylands, Betty White, Diana Canova

Synopsis: In this drama three contemporary couples prepare for their upcoming nuptials. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ransom of Red Chief

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This fun film is based upon the classic O. Henry tale about a bratty kid who kidnappers find to be more than they can handle, so they're happy to de-kidnap him. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Having Babies 2

Actors: Rhea Perlman

Synopsis: Like 1976's "Part One," Having Babies, Part 2 is a multiplotted TV movie about the effect of parenthood on four couples. The first film concentrated on a natural childbirth class. This second film broadens the subject matter with glances at adoptions and unwanted pregnancies. Among the many new Read More

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Harry and Walter Go to New York was born of the theory that, the more stars and money that you throw into a film, the better the film will be. The theory has seldom been proven true, and it certainly wasn't in this case. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliot Gould) are a third-rate vaudeville Read More

Las Vegas Lady

Actors: Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, Lynne Moody, Linda Scruggs

Synopsis: This heist film stars Stella Stevens as a robber who enlists her friends--a trapeze artist and a magician's aide--to help her make off with $500,000 in casino cash. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Hearts of the West

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin

Synopsis: Hearts of the West (British title: Hollywood Cowboy) stars Jeff Bridges as Lewis Tater, a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey or Peter B. Kyne. He arrives in Nevada to seek out the correspondence school that has "graduated" him. After learning that he's Read More

Shampoo

Actors: Howard Hesseman, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to Read More

The Sting

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones Read More

Steelyard Blues

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: In this counter-culture caper comedy, directed by Alan Myerson (whose work with The Committee and Second City gives the film a quirky sketch comedy freshness), Donald Sutherland plays Veldini, a sad-eyed demolition-derby driver, serving time for larceny. He also possesses a millennial desire to Read More

Deadhead Miles

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alan Arkin, Paul Benedict, Hector Elizondo, Oliver Clark, Charles Durning

Synopsis: One of Terrence Malick's early screenwriting efforts, this loosely-structured road movie finds a questionably sane long-distance trucker named Cooper (Alan Arkin) winding his way through the heart of America. An employee of a questionable hauling outfit who has been assigned to drive a newly Read More

Haunts of the Very Rich

Synopsis: The old Outward Bound formula is pulled out of mothballs for the made-for-TV Haunts of the Very Rich. The scene is a gorgeous tropical resort, where seven very wealthy people have converged. These worthies have been lured to this spot by an anonymous host, who has promised them a vacation in a Read More

Flap

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Flap is marginally significant as the only western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as Flapping Eagle, a modern-day Native American stuck on a squalid reservation. Though liquored up most of the time, Flapping Eagle undergoes an eleventh-hour social awakening. Read More

Castle Keep

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Peter Falk, Scott Wilson, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: This decidedly different war movie follows Maj. Abraham Falconer (Burt Lancaster), a tired, one-eyed Army officer, as he leads eight men into Belgium where they hope to take a much-needed rest at a 10th century castle. The master of the house, Henri Tixier (Jean-Pierre Aumont), welcomes them with Read More

Never a Dull Moment

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Joanna Moore

Synopsis: Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is an actor in a television series who is mistaken for a real-life murderer Ace Williams (Jack Elam). Comedy ensues when gangster Leo Smooth (Edward G. Robinson) goes after Jack. Robinson reprises the role of the gangster tough guy he made famous in the 1930s. He leads Read More

Ice Station Zebra

Actors: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Jim Brown, Tony Bill

Synopsis: A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out distress signals before falling silent. The Read More

How to Steal the World

Actors: David McCallum, Leslie Nielsen, Barry Sullivan, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Released theatrically overseas, How to Steal the World was comprised of two episodes from the American TV series Man from U.N.C.L.E. U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Ilya Kuriakin (David McCallum) investigate when fellow agent Barry Sullivan and European general Leslie Nielsen Read More

Bonanza: The Oath

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Tony Bill, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Future movie-studio executive Tony Bill is cast as halfbreed Charlie Two, who has sworn to killi the Cartwrights to avenge the hanging of his father Charlie Monahan. Hoping to dissuade Charlie, Joe Cartwright adopts an alias and accompanies the boy on his journeys. In the course of events, the two Read More

You're a Big Boy Now

Actors: Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Julie Harris, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn

Synopsis: This cult favorite began as Francis Ford Coppola's UCLA thesis, ending up with a professional cast and nationwide release. Teen Peter Kastner undergoes his coming-of-age rites when, urged on by dad Rip Torn, he strikes out on own and moves to NYC. Every person Kastner meets is an eccentric's Read More

None But the Brave

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra took over the directors' chair for the first (and only) time in this unusual WWII drama. Lt. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) is the leader of a Japanese platoon stranded on a remote Pacific island, where with an iron hand he oversees the construction of a rescue ship. An American plane Read More