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Bill's entertainment career spans over five decades as an actor, writer, producer, director, and production executive. He began acting in numerous plays, films, and TV series such as What This Country Needs, The Way of the World, George M, Johnny Got His Gun, Deathmaster, The End, The Hoax, Little House on the Prairie, The Young Rebels, Dan August, Family Ties, The Rookies, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Korg 70,000 BC.
After his stint on Korg, Bill trained in production management under Eugene Mazzola at EME Productions, mastering script breakdown, scheduling, and budgeting. In 1975, he joined Dino De Laurentiis Productions as a production assistant on the King Kong remake, where he met Gary Martin, who hired him to write the screenplay Pale Images for 20th Century Fox.
Following King Kong, Bill worked as a production associate on Meteor, starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood for Sandy Howard Productions. In 1978, he met writer/director J.S. Cardone, and together they co-wrote and developed the low-budget horror/thriller The Slayer for The International Picture Show Company, with Bill producing and Cardone directing. The Slayer led to a development deal with Bosley/Carr Productions at Paramount Pictures, where they completed writing assignments including a TV pilot for Norm Crosby and the feature Rain Dancers. They later independently developed Thunder Alley, which Bill produced and Cardone directed, financed and distributed by Cannon Films.
In June 1986, when David Puttnam became Chairman of Columbia Pictures, Bill was brought on as a consultant to help establish a new division producing independent films under $5 million. During this time, he also sold the TV pilot Hot Line, co-written with Gary Grubbs, to Warner Brothers. By November 1986, Bill joined Columbia Pictures full-time as Director of Production Services under Gary Martin and was promoted to Vice President of Production in 1988 under studio head Dawn Steele.
With Sony's acquisition of Columbia, Bill advanced to Senior Vice President of Production Administration. Over 16 years at Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment, he oversaw production on more than 100 feature films, including Awakenings, A League of Their Own, My Girl, Groundhog Day, Age of Innocence, In the Line of Fire, Little Women, Fly Away Home, Air Force One, Men in Black I & II, Stuart Little I & II, and The Patriot. His final project there was the first Spider-Man film, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.
After leaving the studio in 2002, Bill made his directorial debut with the Lifetime movie Christmas Child, adapted from a Max Lucado book. He then became President of Every Tribe Entertainment alongside Mart Green, serving as Co-Executive Producer of the award-winning documentary Beyond the Gates of Splendor and as Producer and Co-Writer of the feature End of the Spear.
Bill is currently a partner at Pyramid Power Productions (as of December 1, 2023), where he develops, writes, and produces films including The Pyramid Principle, China Station, and Who Moved The Stone. He also chairs Mastermedia International, a faith-based organization connecting with top media leaders for over 30 years.
Bill and his wife Susie are parents to actor and performer Blake McIver Ewing.
