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Billy Crawford
Billy Crawford (Billy Joe Crawford, born 1982, Manila) is a Filipino-American singer, dancer, actor, and TV host: child star of That's Entertainment, NRJ-winning pop artist in France, winner of Danse avec les stars 2022 and Mask Singer France 9, and Voice Kids coach.
Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup (William Gaither Crudup, born 1968) is an American actor of stage and screen: Tony winner for The Coast of Utopia, star of Almost Famous and Watchmen, and two-time Emmy winner as Cory Ellison in The Morning Show.
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (William Edward Crystal, born 1948, New York) is an American actor and comedian: Jodie Dallas on Soap, SNL's Fernando, star of When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers, voice of Mike Wazowski, and nine-time Oscar host.
Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams (William December Williams, born April 6, 1937) is an American actor and painter known for Lando Calrissian in Star Wars, Brian's Song, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany, and Batman's Harvey Dent.
Billy Drago
Billy Drago (William Eugene Burrows, 1945-2019), American character actor born in Hugoton, Kansas, best known as Frank Nitti in The Untouchables (1987) and the demon Barbas on Charmed.
Billy Eichner
Billy Eichner (born 1978), American comedian and actor, creator and star of Billy on the Street (2011); first openly gay man to write, produce, and star in a major studio film, Bros (2022); also Timon's voice in The Lion King.
Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, starring Jamie Bell as a coal miner's son who discovers ballet during the 1984–85 miners' strike.
Billy Gardell
Billy Gardell (William Gardell Jr., born 1969, Pittsburgh) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, star of CBS sitcoms Mike & Molly (2010-16) and Bob Hearts Abishola (2019-24), both cast by Chuck Lorre; also hosted Monopoly Millionaires' Club.
Billy Gray (actor)
Billy Gray (William Thomas Gray, born January 13, 1938) is an American actor, Speedway motorcycle racer, and inventor, best known as Bud Anderson on Father Knows Best (1954–60) and as Bobby in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
Billy Herrington
Billy Herrington (1969-2018), American bodybuilder and gay adult film actor nicknamed Aniki in Japan, whose wrestling clips became the Gachimuchi remix meme on Nico Nico Douga from 2007.
Billy Howle
Billy Howle (William Walter Douglas Howle, born 1989) is a British actor, a 2013 Bristol Old Vic graduate known for Glue, On Chesil Beach, The Serpent, MotherFatherSon, a 2022 Bristol Old Vic Hamlet, and Kid Snow.
Billy Jack
Billy Jack is a 1971 American drama film starring Tom Laughlin as a part-Navajo ex-Green Beret who defends a Freedom School on an Arizona reservation from hostile townspeople.
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Billy Joel: And So It Goes is a 2025 two-part HBO documentary about singer-songwriter Billy Joel, directed by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, tracing his life and songs.
Billy Kametz
Billy Kametz (1987–2022), American anime and video game voice actor from Hershey, Pennsylvania; Naofumi in Shield Hero, Josuke in JoJo Part 4, Maruki in Persona 5 Royal; died of stage IV colon cancer at 35.
Billy Knight (film)
Billy Knight (2025) is an American drama, the feature directorial debut of Alec Griffen Roth, starring Al Pacino, Charlie Heaton, and Diana Silvers. It premiered August 8, 2025 at Rhode Island; not the basketball person.
Billy Laughlin
Billy Laughlin (William Robert Laughlin, 1932-1948), American child actor who played gravel-voiced Froggy in 29 Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts 1940-1944; died at 16 in a La Puente scooter-truck accident.
Billy Liar
Billy Liar (1963) is a British New Wave comedy-drama directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay as daydreaming Yorkshire undertaker's clerk Billy Fisher and Julie Christie as Liz, adapted from Keith Waterhouse's 1959 novel.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (film)
Ang Lee's 2016 war drama adapted from Ben Fountain's novel, starring Joe Alwyn; the first Hollywood feature shot in 3D, 4K, 120 fps on Sony F65, released November 11, 2016 to mixed reviews and a $1.7M US gross.
Billy MacLellan
Billy MacLellan (born 1974, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor, writer, and director known for Maudie, Bellevue, Nobody, Normal, and his 2012 ACTRA Voice award for Afghanada.
Billy Madison
Billy Madison is a 1995 American comedy starring Adam Sandler and directed by Tamra Davis. The film follows a spoiled heir repeating school to inherit a hotel fortune.
Billy Magnussen
Billy Magnussen (William Gregory Magnussen, born 1985) is an American actor and musician, Tony-nominated for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, known for Into the Woods, Aladdin, No Time to Die, Lilo & Stitch, and AMC's The Audacity.
Billy Miller (actor)
Billy Miller (William John Miller II, 1979–2023) was an American soap actor who won three Daytime Emmys as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless (2008–2014) and played Jason Morgan/Drew Cain on General Hospital (2014–2019); he died by suicide in Austin, Texas.
Billy Mitchell (EastEnders)
Billy Mitchell (William Mitchell), EastEnders soap character played by Perry Fenwick since 2 November 1998; a downtrodden Mitchell relative, 2,248 episodes, married Little Mo and Honey, foster father of Jay Brown.
Billy Murray (actor)
Billy Murray (William Albert Murray, born 1941) is an English actor known for DS Don Beech in The Bill, gangster Johnny Allen in EastEnders, and voicing Captain Price in Call of Duty.
Billy Porter
Billy Porter (born 1969, Pittsburgh) is an American actor, singer, and director, distinct from composer Cole Porter. Tony winner for Kinky Boots (2013) and A Strange Loop (2022), Emmy winner for Pose (2019), director of Anything's Possible (2022), and album Black Mona Lisa (2023).
Billy Redden
Billy Redden (born 1956), also called the banjo boy, is a nonprofessional Georgia actor who played Lonnie in Deliverance's 1972 Dueling Banjos scene, with a hidden musician fretting; later found by Tim Burton for Big Fish (2003).
Billy Santoro
Billy Santoro (born 1976, Philadelphia) is an American gay adult film performer, also credited as Billy Santos, active from about 2012, married to performer Seth Santoro, and known for Lucas Entertainment's first bareback scene and a 2020 JustForFans controversy.
Billy the Exterminator
Billy the Exterminator, originally The Exterminators, is an A&E reality series (2009–2017) following Billy Bretherton and his family running the Vexcon pest-control company in Benton, Louisiana, later continued as Billy Goes North on CMT Canada.
Billy the Kid (TV series)
Billy the Kid is an MGM+/Epix Western drama TV series (2022) created by Michael Hirst, starring Tom Blyth as the outlaw William H. Bonney across three seasons covering his Irish immigrant roots and the Lincoln County War.
Billy the Puppet
Billy the Puppet, the ventriloquist doll of the Saw franchise, built by James Wan and used in-story by John Kramer, Mark Hoffman, and Amanda Young to deliver Jigsaw's game instructions, never named on screen.