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Bill Lancaster is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Co-Producer American born on 17 november 1947 at Los Angeles (USA)
William Henry "Bill" Lancaster (November 17, 1947 – January 4, 1997) was an American screenwriter.
Lancaster, a lookalike for his famous father at the time, guest-starred in an episode of the television series The Big Valley in 1967. In 1973, Lancaster played the role of "King", the boyfriend of a murdered college coed in The Midnight Man, a mystery film starring and co-directed by his father, released in 1974.
Lancaster's best known work is his adapted screenplay for John Carpenter's The Thing. He also penned the original screenplays for The Bad News Bears films.
He is featured in the documentary The Thing: Terror Takes Shape, found on the collector's edition DVD of The Thing. Lancaster states that he did not think Who Goes There? was a "great" story, but that he responded to the tale's sense of claustrophobia and paranoia. The documentary is dedicated to him because of his death shortly after it was filmed.
Lancaster was married to Kippie Kovacs, daughter of the comedian Ernie Kovacs. They had one child, daughter Keigh Lancaster.
Lancaster died at the age of 49 due to cardiac arrest.
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Bill Lancaster
Birth name William Henry Lancaster
Nationality USA
Birth 17 november 1947 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 4 january 1997 (at 49 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 17 november 1947 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 4 january 1997 (at 49 years)
Biography
He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Burt Lancaster and Norma Anderson. He developed polio at an early age, leaving one of his legs shorter than the other.Lancaster, a lookalike for his famous father at the time, guest-starred in an episode of the television series The Big Valley in 1967. In 1973, Lancaster played the role of "King", the boyfriend of a murdered college coed in The Midnight Man, a mystery film starring and co-directed by his father, released in 1974.
Lancaster's best known work is his adapted screenplay for John Carpenter's The Thing. He also penned the original screenplays for The Bad News Bears films.
He is featured in the documentary The Thing: Terror Takes Shape, found on the collector's edition DVD of The Thing. Lancaster states that he did not think Who Goes There? was a "great" story, but that he responded to the tale's sense of claustrophobia and paranoia. The documentary is dedicated to him because of his death shortly after it was filmed.
Lancaster was married to Kippie Kovacs, daughter of the comedian Ernie Kovacs. They had one child, daughter Keigh Lancaster.
Lancaster died at the age of 49 due to cardiac arrest.
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Moses the Lawgiver (1974)
Directed by Gianfranco De Bosio
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle, Ingrid Thulin, Irène Papas, Bill Lancaster, Yosef Shiloach
Roles Der junge Moses
Rating60%
The Midnight Man (1974)
, 1h54Directed by Burt Lancaster, Roland Kibbee
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Lauter, Morgan Woodward, Harris Yulin
Roles Arthur King
Rating63%
A former Chicago policeman, Jim Slade (Lancaster), has just been released on parole from prison for shooting his wife's lover in their bed. He goes to live with friends, Quartz (Cameron Mitchell) and wife Judy Joan Lorring, in a small town where he has been offered a job (part of his parole agreement) as a night watchman at Jordan College.
Scriptwriter
Bad News Bears (2005)
, 1h51Directed by Richard Linklater
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films, Children's films
Actors Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sonya Eddy, Scott Adsit, Sammi Kane Kraft
Rating58%
Morris Buttermaker (Billy Bob Thornton) is a washed-up alcoholic baseball player who was a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners before getting kicked out of professional baseball for attacking an umpire. He works as an exterminator and is a crude womanizer. He coaches the Bears, a children's baseball team with poor playing skills. They play their first game and do not even make an out before he forfeits the game. The entire team decides to quit after but Buttermaker forces them out of quitting and promises to be a better coach. Amanda Whurlitzer (Sammi Kane Kraft), a skilled pitcher, is the 12-year-old daughter of one of his ex-girlfriends. After a couple requests, she decides to join the team. Kelly Leak, a local troublemaker but solid hitter, also joins the team, and the Bears start winning games. The Bears eventually make it to the championship game. In the middle of that game, the Bears and Yankees fight after Amanda is shoved during a play at the plate. A few innings later the Yankees coach Ray Bullock (Greg Kinnear) has his son Joey intentionally walk Mike Engleberg, one of the Bears' best hitters. Instead of walking him, he almost hits Engleberg, causing Ray to push Joey to the ground in anger. As revenge, Joey throws Engleberg an easy pitch which he smacks for a home run and would leave the game with his mother. Later, Buttermaker changes the lineup, putting the benchwarmers in and taking out some of the good players which causes the Bears to fall behind heading into the last half of the inning. With two outs, one of the Bears players, Garo, drives in two runs and tries to score to tie the game but is thrown out at the plate on a close call, causing the Bears to lose the championship 8–7. After the game, Buttermaker gives them non-alcoholic beer, and they spray it all over each other. Although they did not win the championship, they have the satisfaction of trying, knowing that winning is not so important.
The Thing (1982)
, 1h49Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films
Actors Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, David Clennon, Donald Moffat, Charles Hallahan
Rating81%
In the Antarctic, a Norwegian helicopter pursues an Alaskan Malamute to an American research station. Upon landing the helicopter, a Norwegian accidentally drops a thermite charge, destroying the helicopter. The surviving Norwegian pursues the dog, firing a rifle, until he is killed by Garry, the station commander. The Americans send a helicopter pilot, MacReady, and Dr. Copper to the Norwegian camp for answers, but they find only a charred ruin. Outside, they discover the burned remains of a humanoid corpse with two faces, which they bring back along with some video footage. Their biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy on the corpse, finding a normal set of human internal organs.
, 1h31Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Baseball films, Children's films
Actors Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Regis Philbin, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Quinn Smith, George Wyner
Roles Writer
Rating37%
Small-time promoter/hustler Marvin Lazar (Curtis) sees a potential money-making venture in the Bears that will help him to pay off his debts. After seeing a TV spot about the Bears, he decides to chaperone the baseball team for a trip to Japan in their match against the country's best little league baseball team.
, 1h39Directed by Michael Pressman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films, Children's films
Actors William Devane, Quinn Smith, Chris Barnes, Jackie Earle Haley, Jimmy Baio, Christopher Daniel Barnes
Roles Characters
Rating56%
The Bad News Bears (1976)
, 1h42Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Baseball films, Children's films
Actors Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal, Chris Barnes, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Vic Morrow, Ben Piazza
Roles Writer
Rating72%
Morris Buttermaker (Walter Matthau), a former minor-league baseball player and an alcoholic who cleans swimming pools, is recruited by a city councilman and attorney who filed a lawsuit against a competitive Southern California Little League, which excluded the least athletically skilled children (including his son) from playing. To settle the lawsuit, the league agrees to add an additional team—the Bears—which is composed of the worst players.
Producer
, 1h31Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Baseball films, Children's films
Actors Tony Curtis, Jackie Earle Haley, Regis Philbin, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Quinn Smith, George Wyner
Roles Co-Producer
Rating37%
Small-time promoter/hustler Marvin Lazar (Curtis) sees a potential money-making venture in the Bears that will help him to pay off his debts. After seeing a TV spot about the Bears, he decides to chaperone the baseball team for a trip to Japan in their match against the country's best little league baseball team.