124,020 articles
Bill Cable
Bill Cable (born William Laurence Cumpanas, also known as Stoner) was an American model, actor, stunt performer, and screenwriter who modeled for COLT Studio and played Johnny Boz in Basic Instinct's opening scene, dying in 1998 after a motorcycle accident.
Bill Callahan (musician)
Bill Callahan, born 1966 in Silver Spring, Maryland, is the American singer-songwriter formerly known as Smog (Smog, (Smog)), a Drag City lo-fi and indie-folk artist whose albums include Woke on a Whaleheart, Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest, Gold Record, and 2026's My Days of 58.
Bill Camp
Bill Camp, American character actor (born 1961 or 1964, Massachusetts), Juilliard-trained stage veteran, Tony and Emmy nominee, known for The Night Of, 12 Years a Slave, Joker, and The Gilded Age.
Bill Champlin
Bill Champlin (William Bradford Champlin, born 1947, Oakland, California) is an American singer, keyboardist, and songwriter, founder of the Sons of Champlin and a Chicago member 1981-2009, singing "Hard Habit to Break" and "Look Away", and a two-time Grammy-winning songwriter for "After the Love Has Gone" and "Turn Your Love Around".
Bill Cobbs
Bill Cobbs (Wilbert Francisco Cobbs, 1934–2024), American character actor with nearly 200 film and TV credits, known for The Bodyguard, Night at the Museum, Air Bud, Demolition Man, and I'll Fly Away; won a 2020 Daytime Emmy for Dino Dana.
Bill Condon
Bill Condon (William Condon), American film director and screenwriter born 1955 in New York City; Oscar winner for Gods and Monsters (1998), director of Chicago's screenplay, Dreamgirls, Twilight: Breaking Dawn, and Beauty and the Beast.
Bill Conti
Bill Conti (William Conti, born 1942, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American film and television composer and conductor, Oscar winner for The Right Stuff, composer of Rocky's "Gonna Fly Now" and themes for Dynasty and Falcon Crest.
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby (born July 12, 1937, Philadelphia) is an American comedian and actor, star of I Spy and The Cosby Show, nine-time Grammy winner, whose 2018 sexual assault conviction was overturned in 2021 and who was ordered in 2026 to pay $59.25 million in a civil case.
Bill Cotton
Sir Bill Cotton (1928–2008), also Bill Cotton Jr, English BBC television producer and executive; Head of Light Entertainment 1970–77 and Managing Director of Television; behind Dad's Army, The Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise, Top of the Pops.
Bill Cullen
Bill Cullen (William Lawrence Cullen, 1920-1990), Pittsburgh-born American radio and TV personality nicknamed the Dean of Game Show Hosts; hosted the original Price Is Right (1956-1965), 15 years on I've Got a Secret, over 20 game shows despite childhood polio.
Bill Cunningham
Bill Cunningham was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, widely described as a founder of street style photography for documenting what people actually wore on New York's streets.
Bill D'Elia
Bill D'Elia, American television director and executive producer of Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, Harry's Law, and How to Get Away with Murder; 8 Emmy nominations, co-creator of Judging Amy; not the mafia figure William 'Big Billy' D'Elia.
Bill Daily
Bill Daily (William Edward Daily Jr., 1927-2018), American comic actor born in Des Moines, Iowa; played Major Roger Healey on I Dream of Jeannie and Howard Borden on The Bob Newhart Show, later Dr. Larry Dykstra on ALF.
Bill Drummond
Bill Drummond (William Ernest Drummond, born 1953, Butterworth, South Africa) is a Scottish artist, musician, and writer; co-founder of Zoo Records and, with Jimmy Cauty, the KLF, the Timelords, and the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; later burned £1 million as the K Foundation. Distinct from jazz drummer Billy Drummond.
Bill Duke
Bill Duke (William Henry Duke, Jr., born 1943, Poughkeepsie, NY) is an American actor and director, not the Duke University or Duke Energy namesake, known for Predator, Commando, and directing A Rage in Harlem and Deep Cover.
Bill Engvall
Bill Engvall (William Ray Engvall Jr., born 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor from Galveston, Texas, known for "Here's your sign" and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with Jeff Foxworthy, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.
Bill Erwin
Bill Erwin (William Lindsey Erwin, 1914–2010), American character actor with over 250 screen credits, Emmy-nominated as Sid Fields on Seinfeld's "The Old Man" and known for Arthur the bellman in Somewhere in Time; not the Duke psychiatry professor of the same name.
Bill Evans
Bill Evans (William John Evans, 1929–1980), American jazz pianist and composer from Plainfield, New Jersey; played on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, reformed jazz voicings, and defined the interactive piano trio with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian.
Bill Evans discography
Bill Evans discography: recorded catalog of jazz pianist Bill Evans (1929–1980), from New Jazz Conceptions (1956) and the LaFaro–Motian Village Vanguard albums to The Bill Evans Album (1971, two Grammys) and posthumous Warner releases.
Bill Fagerbakke
Bill Fagerbakke (born 1957, Fontana, California) is an American actor, the voice of Patrick Star in SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999 and Dauber on Coach (1989–1997), also Broadway in Gargoyles.
Bill Farmer
Bill Farmer (William Robert Farmer, born 1952, Pratt, Kansas) is the American voice actor and Disney Legend who has voiced Goofy and Pluto since the mid-1980s, also Hop Pop in Amphibia and Doc in The 7D.
Bill Fellows
Bill Fellows (born 1957, Middlesbrough) is an English actor known as Stu Carpenter in Coronation Street (2021–2024) and George Cartrick in Ted Lasso, with films Lady Macbeth, Final Score, and United.
Bill Finger
Bill Finger (Milton Finger, 1914-1974), American comics writer, uncredited co-creator of Batman with Bob Kane: named Bruce Wayne and Gotham City, wrote the Detective Comics #27 debut script, co-created the Joker, later honored by the Bill Finger Award.
Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell (William Richard Frisell, born 1951) is an American jazz guitarist and composer, an ECM Records stalwart known for ambient Telecaster textures and Americana-jazz fusion, with a 2005 Grammy for Unspeakable.
Bill Graham (promoter)
Bill Graham, born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca, was a German-born American impresario who built the modern concert promotion business around his Fillmore venues in San Francisco and New York.
Bill Hader
Bill Hader (born 1978, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director, an SNL cast member 2005-2013 known for Stefon, voice of Fear in Inside Out, and Emmy-winning co-creator-star of HBO's Barry (2018-2023).
Bill Haley
Bill Haley (William John Clifton Haley, 1925–1981), American bandleader of Bill Haley & His Comets; "Rock Around the Clock" became in 1955 the first rock 'n' roll number-one pop hit.
Bill Haley & His Comets
Bill Haley & His Comets, American rock and roll band (1952–1981) fronted by Bill Haley (1925–1981); their 1954 "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" became in 1955 the first rock and roll Number One pop hit, selling about 25 million copies.
Bill Hayes (actor)
Bill Hayes (William Foster Hayes III, 1925–2024), American singer and actor; his 1955 'Ballad of Davy Crockett' hit number one, and he played Doug Williams on Days of Our Lives from 1970 into 2023, married to co-star Susan Seaforth Hayes.
Bill Henson
Bill Henson, born in Melbourne in 1955, is an Australian photographer known for darkly toned images of figures and landscapes, first exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria at age 19.