1. Tony Bill produced the 1973 movie The Sting, for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips.
10 Facts About Tony Bill
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Tony Bill made his directorial debut with My Bodyguard and directed movies Six Weeks, Five Corners, Crazy People, Untamed Heart, and Flyboys.
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Tony Bill majored in English and art at the University of Notre Dame, from which he graduated in 1962.
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Tony Bill began his career as an actor in the 1960s, first appearing on screen as Frank Sinatra's ingenuous younger brother in Come Blow Your Horn.
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Tony Bill continued to act in television movies, miniseries, and guest spots, though with decreasing frequency as he segued into directing.
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In 1965, Tony Bill guest-starred in "An Echo of Bugles," the opening episode of Rod Serling's Western series The Loner, playing a hot-headed bully who taunts a Confederate veteran and challenges series star Lloyd Bridges to a duel.
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Tony Bill appeared in the 1966 episode "Chaff in the Wind" of the western The Virginian and the 1966 episode "The Oath" of the western Bonanza.
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Tony Bill went on to direct Six Weeks, Five Corners, Crazy People, A Home of Our Own, Untamed Heart, and Flyboys, which Bill claims was one of the early features shot entirely with digital cameras.
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For television, Tony Bill directed Truman Capote's One Christmas, Harlan County War, and Pictures of Hollis Woods.
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In 2009, Tony Bill published the book Movie Speak: How to Talk Like You Belong on a Film Set.