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Bill Orcutt
Bill Orcutt (born 1962, Miami) is an American experimental guitarist, co-founder of noise rock band Harry Pussy with Adris Hoyos, later a solo acoustic blues-improvisation artist, Palilalia Records founder, Cracked software author, and Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet leader.
Bill Owen (actor)
Bill Owen (William John Owen Rowbotham, 1914-1999), English actor, played Compo Simmonite in BBC's Last of the Summer Wine from 1973 until his death; also a Royal Court stage actor, film character player, and songwriter.
Bill Paterson (actor)
Bill Paterson (William Tulloch Paterson), Scottish actor born in Glasgow in 1945; founding member of 7:84 Theatre Company in The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil; films include Comfort and Joy, The Killing Fields, The Witches; TV includes Outlander, Fleabag, The Repair Shop narrator; BAFTA Scotland Outstanding Contribution 2015.
Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton (1955-2017) was a Fort Worth-born American actor and director known for Aliens, Weird Science, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic, HBO's Big Love, and directing Frailty; also fronted the band Martini Ranch.
Bill Pertwee
Bill Pertwee (William Desmond Anthony Pertwee, 1926-2013), English comedy actor and MBE, played Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army on TV, radio, film, and stage, and was a regular on Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne.
Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton (born 1946), American independent animator and cartoonist from Oregon, twice Oscar-nominated for Your Face and Guard Dog; known for hand-drawing every frame of adult animated features himself.
Bill Potts (Doctor Who)
Bill Potts is a Doctor Who companion played by Pearl Mackie, the Twelfth Doctor's Series 10 (2017) companion and the show's first openly gay one, introduced in "The Pilot" and leaving in "Twice Upon a Time" after Cyber-conversion and rescue by Heather.
Bill Prady
Bill Prady (born 1960, Detroit) is an American TV writer and producer, co-creator with Chuck Lorre of The Big Bang Theory, former Jim Henson Productions and Muppets writer, and co-creator of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.
Bill Pullman
Bill Pullman (William James Pullman), American actor from Hornell, New York; stage career from 1983, films including Spaceballs, Independence Day (President Whitmore), Lost Highway, and The Sinner; RSC debut and Spaceballs: The New One upcoming.
Bill Quinn
Bill Quinn (William Tyrell Quinn, 1912–1994), American character actor from vaudeville and silent films to Star Trek V; known as Sweeney on The Rifleman and Mr. Van Ranseleer on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place; father-in-law of Bob Newhart.
Bill Reid
Bill Reid, born William Ronald Reid (1920–1998), was a Haida Canadian master goldsmith and sculptor whose works, including The Raven and the First Men, revived Haida art.
Bill Rieflin
Bill Rieflin (William Frederick Rieflin, 1960–2020) was a Seattle drummer and multi-instrumentalist for Ministry, Pigface, KMFDM, R.E.M., and King Crimson, serving as Crimson's first full-time keyboardist.
Bill Robinson
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, was an American tap dancer and actor, "King of Tap Dancers," star of Blackbirds of 1928 and the Stair Dance, and Shirley Temple's film partner.
Bill Sage
Bill Sage (William Sage III, born 1962, New York City) is an American character actor from SUNY Purchase and Hal Hartley's ensemble, known for American Psycho, Mysterious Skin, We Are What We Are, Wrong Turn, and recurring TV roles.
Bill Sienkiewicz
Bill Sienkiewicz (born 1958, Blakely, Pennsylvania), American comic artist known for Moon Knight, New Mutants, Elektra: Assassin, and Stray Toasters; Eisner winner and Hall of Fame inductee.
Bill Sikes
Bill Sikes (William Sikes) is the brutal housebreaker of Dickens's Oliver Twist (1837-39), a member of Fagin's gang, Nancy's lover, owner of the dog Bull's-eye, and Nancy's murderer.
Bill Simmons
Bill Simmons (born 1969) is an American sportswriter and media entrepreneur, the ESPN 'Sports Guy' who founded Grantland and The Ringer, sold The Ringer to Spotify for about $250 million, and hosts The Bill Simmons Podcast and The Rewatchables.
Bill Skarsgård
Bill Skarsgård, born 1990 in Vällingby, Sweden, is a Swedish actor, son of Stellan Skarsgård, known as Pennywise in It and It Chapter Two, Count Orlok in Nosferatu, and Clark Olofsson in the Netflix series Clark.
Bill Smitrovich
Bill Smitrovich (William Stanley Zmitrowicz Jr.), American character actor born 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut; known for Crime Story, Life Goes On, Millennium, The Practice, and films including Independence Day, Thirteen Days, Iron Man, and Joker: Folie à Deux.
Bill Tanner
Bill Tanner (William Tanner) is M's Chief of Staff at MI6 in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and the Eon films, one of Bond's few friends in the Service, played on screen by Michael Goodliffe, James Villiers, Michael Kitchen, and currently Rory Kinnear.
Bill Thompson (voice actor)
Bill Thompson (William Henry Thompson Jr., 1913–1971), American radio personality and voice actor; Wallace Wimple on Fibber McGee and Molly, voice of MGM's Droopy (1943–1958) and Disney's White Rabbit, Mr. Smee, and Uncle Waldo.
Bill Travers
Bill Travers (William Inglis Lindon Travers, 1922-1994), English actor, screenwriter and wildlife campaigner; starred as George Adamson in Born Free (1966) with wife Virginia McKenna, and co-founded Zoo Check, later the Born Free Foundation, in 1984.
Bill Traylor
Bill Traylor was an African American self-taught artist, born into slavery in Alabama, who made over 1,000 drawings and paintings beginning around 1939 at about age 85.
Bill Treacher
Bill Treacher (William Charles Treacher, 1930–2022), English actor, first cast member of EastEnders, played Arthur Fowler 1985–1996; later ataxia; died of pneumonia and Covid-19.
Bill Viola
Bill Viola (1951–2024), American video art pioneer, created slow-motion immersive installations such as The Greeting, Nantes Triptych, and St Paul's Cathedral's Martyrs and Mary, drawing on Renaissance painting and Zen, Sufi, and Christian mysticism.
Bill Ward (musician)
Bill Ward (William Thomas Ward, born 1948) is the English drummer and founding member of Black Sabbath, played on its early albums, left in 1980, returned repeatedly, and rejoined the 2025 farewell concert; distinct from drummer Billy Ward.
Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson (William Boyd Watterson II, born 1958) is the American cartoonist who created Calvin and Hobbes (1985–1995), refused all merchandising licensing, won Reuben Awards in 1986 and 1988 and the 2014 Angoulême Grand Prix, and returned in 2023 with The Mysteries.
Bill Williams (actor)
Bill Williams (Herman August Wilhelm Katt, 1915-1992), American actor, star of the TV Western The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951-55, 104 episodes), husband of Barbara Hale, father of William Katt; not to be confused with other Bill Williamses.
Bill Withers
Bill Withers (1938–2020), American soul singer-songwriter of "Ain't No Sunshine," "Lean on Me," "Lovely Day," and "Just the Two of Us"; three Grammys, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2015, retired 1985.
Bill Wurtz
Bill Wurtz (William James Wurtz II), American musician and animator in New York, creator of billwurtz.com and the viral YouTube videos history of japan (2016) and history of the entire world, i guess (2017).