William Calovis
William Calovis is an actor, known for Falcon Song (2014).
William Calvert
William Calvert is known for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) and Moonfall (2022).
William Camara
William Camara is known for Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez (2020).
William Cameron
William Cameron was born on January 21, 1955 in Washington, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Night of the Living Dead (1990), Sudden Death (1995) and Day of the Dead (1985).
William Cameron Menzies
William Cameron Menzies was educated at Yale University, the University of Edinburgh and at the Art Students League in New York. He entered the film industry in 1919, after serving with the U.S. Expeditionary Forces in World War I. His initial assignments were in film design and special effects, as assistant to Anton Grot at Famous Players-Lasky. Menzies drew inspiration from German Expressionism and from the work of D.W. Griffith. His sense of visual style was quickly recognised and he was promoted to full art director after only three years. At United Artists (1923-30, 1935-40) and Fox (1931-33), he eventually designed for stars like Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. He worked for all three of the major independent producers: Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick and Walter Wanger. Menzies also had the singular distinction of receiving the first-ever Oscar for art direction (for The Dove (1927)). His flamboyant and exotic fairy-tale sets for The Thief of Bagdad (1924) are regarded to this day as a work of pure genius. From the beginning of the sound era, Menzies also got involved in directing and producing. During the 1940's, he worked frequently with the director Sam Wood, whose films he improved dramatically through his designs. Over time, Menzies acquired a well-earned reputation for his larger-then-life personality, his visual flair and love of adventure and fantasy in films. He defined and solidified the role of the art director as having overall control over the look of the finished motion picture. He was a tireless innovator, who meticulously pre-planned the color and design of each film through a series of continuity sketches that outlined camera angles, lighting and the position of actors in each scene. For Gone with the Wind (1939), he and J. McMillan Johnson drew some 2000 detailed watercolor sketches. An historian, Wilbur G. Kurtz, was employed on the project to provide additional accuracy of period detail. Menzies himself directed the famous burning of Atlanta sequence and hospital sequence, including the famous long shot of wounded and dying Confederate soldiers, taken from a 90-foot crane. A consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale, Menzies was rather less effective as a director, consistently displaying an inability to draw strong performances from his cast. As a result, others were often brought in as co-directors, forcing Menzies to share the credit. In the 1950's, he helmed several low-budget films, which stand out purely for their characteristically good visuals, as, for example, Invaders from Mars (1953). Menzies was inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame in 2005.
William Campbell
William Campbell is an actor, known for Killer Diller (1948) and Hi De Ho (1947).
William Campbell
William Campbell is an actor, known for Killer Diller (1948) and Hi De Ho (1947).
William Campbell
William Campbell was born on October 30, 1923 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The High and the Mighty (1954), Star Trek (1966) and Dementia 13 (1963). He was married to Tereza Pavlovic, Barbara Bricker and Judith Campbell Exner. He died on April 28, 2011 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
William Cannon
William Cannon is known for The Match-Stick Flame 2: Lunada Bay (2023).
William Caploe
Bill has always been an inspirational and one-of-a-kind figure. He grew up in a small bay area town in California called Castro Valley. He was one of three adopted children of George and Patricia Caploe. He and his siblings were introduced to the performing arts at a young age and willing fell into them. He played in band and orchestra in high school and enjoyed reading lots of science fiction. After graduating high school, he started acting in theater productions at Chabot College in Hayward CA. He later moved to San Francisco where he continued acting in many local productions and completed the 10 week summer congress at the renowned American Conservatory Theater. In 1992 he left California and played a number of key roles in many theater productions in Chicago. There, he met many friends that he has kept in touch with over the years. He enjoyed living away from the coast but eventually was drawn back. He moved to Los Angeles where he found a role in a television movie and a few parts in some major films.