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A veteran of more than forty feature films, William S. Beasley has been involved in the motion picture industry since the mid 1970s.
Born in San Francisco and raised in Los Angeles, Beasley graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in cinematography before joining the United States Air Force. He achieved the rank of Captain, serving as a rescue pilot during the Vietnam War and as part of the support team on the Apollo moon program.
While attending California State University at Northridge where he was working towards getting his master’s degree, Beasley learned about the Director’s Guild training program, he was accepted into the program and worked as a trainee for a year and a half before becoming second assistant director on a number of projects including Goin' South, Breaking Away and American Gigolo.
Beasley would eventually move up to first assistant director on such films as Personal Best, My Favorite Year, Racing With the Moon, Johnny Dangerously, Ruthless People and The Lost Boys, among others.
Beasley’s other credits as producer and unit production manager include National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Basic Instinct, Arachnophobia, Baby Day’s Out, The Cable Guy, Miracle on 34th Street, Something to Talk About, Fearless, The Weather Man, Falling Down, The Mexican, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Invisible, Win A Date With Tad Hamilton, and The Tuxedo.
