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Bill L. Norton is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Camera Operator American born on 13 august 1943

Bill L. Norton

Bill L. Norton
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Nationality USA
Birth 13 august 1943 (81 years)

Bill L. Norton est un réalisateur et scénariste américain.

Best films

Convoy (1978)
(Scénariste à l'image)

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Filmography of Bill L. Norton (16 films)

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Actor

Messiah of Evil, 1h25
Directed by Gloria Katz, Willard Huyck
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Vampires in film, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Marianna Hill, Anitra Ford, Royal Dano, Michael Greer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Charles Dierkop
Roles Townsperson
Rating62% 3.14863.14863.14863.14863.1486
A young woman named Arletty (Marianna Hill) drives to the beach town of Point Dune, California, to visit her estranged father, an artist. She finds his house, abandoned. He left a diary in which he addresses her specifically. In it he complains about darkness consuming the town, and horrible nightmares he is having, and implores Arletty to never, ever look for him. His letter tells her to talk to the owner of the art gallery, who sells his paintings. The gallery owner says he has none of her father's paintings, does not sell them, no one ever comes in looking to buy his works, and says he doesn't know where he went. He says Point Dune is "an artist colony" and he only vaguely remembers her father (his paintings are eerie pop art portraits of groups of people in black, white, and gray, standing; the men are always dressed in black suits, white shirts, and black ties, like dead men at a funeral). It is never clear if these are townspeople, or figures from his visions, or both.

Director

Generation Gap, 1h35
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Edward Asnere, Rue McClanahan, Danielle Savre, Catherine Mary Stewart, Jack Conley, Ralph Waite
Rating64% 3.242423.242423.242423.242423.24242
Suite aux bagarres multiples pour lesquelles il est renvoyé de l'école, sa mère envoie son fils chez son grand-père pour l'été à Greenville. Ce dernier étant colonel durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale tente de corriger son petit-fils.
A Crime of Passion, 1h26
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tracey Gold, Powers Boothe, Kelly Rowan, David Chokachi, Rodney Rowland, Kerrie Keane
Rating57% 2.857062.857062.857062.857062.85706
La police soupçonne une étudiante en médecine d'avoir purement et simplement assassiné son père. La jeune femme, innocente du crime qu'on lui reproche, a bien du mal à faire entendre raison aux enquêteurs. Parallèlement, elle essaie de protéger sa sœur, poursuivie par les véritables tueurs...
Our Mother's Murder, 1h37
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Holly Marie Combs, Roxanne Hart, Sarah Chalke, Andrew Johnston, Jonathan Scarfe, Myriam Sirois
Rating66% 3.341243.341243.341243.341243.34124
In Spring 1989, Alex (Holly Marie Combs) and Annie Morrell (Sarah Chalke) finish prep school and return home to start college. Their mother, publishing heiress Anne Scripps (Roxanne Hart) welcomes them in her New York mansion. Anne has recently divorced her husband Tony (Ryan Michael) and is still struggling with the divorce. Nonetheless, she is happy with her new boyfriend, much younger Scott Douglas (James Wilder), a volatile-tempered young man whom she marries only months after their first meeting.
Every Mother's Worst Fear, 1h31
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Jordan Ladd, Ted McGinley, Robert Wisden, Tom Butler, Blu Mankuma
Rating53% 2.6599252.6599252.6599252.6599252.659925
Martha Hoagland (Jordan Ladd) is a 16-year-old girl suffering through her parents' (Cheryl Ladd, Robert Wisden) recent divorce, her mother working long hours and being recently dumped by her boyfriend. Feeling lonely and seeking solace, she turns to an online chat room. Martha believes she is chatting with a boy around her age, when in reality she is chatting with an internet predator involved in a cyber-kidnapping ring (Ted McGinley). Martha is lured to join her new "friend" who claims he never sent her a ticket out, she is then brought to "The Scanman" and it is up to Martha's mother Connie to rescue her daughter.
Gone in the Night, 3h10
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Shannen Doherty, Kevin Dillon, Edward Asnere, Dixie Carter, Michael J. Harney, Billy Burke
Rating65% 3.295663.295663.295663.295663.29566
Pendant la nuit, un homme s'introduit dans la maison des Dowabilly et enlève Jaclyn, la petite fille de sept ans. Affolés, Cindi et David préviennent les autorités au petit matin en accusant l'ex-mari de Cindi et le frère de ce dernier d'être dans le coup. Quand ce soupçon vole en éclat et que le corps de Jaclyn est découvert, la police et les médias portent plus attention aux parents.
Three for the Road, 1h28
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Charlie Sheen, Alan Ruck, Kerri Green, Sally Kellerman, Blair Tefkin, Raymond J. Barry
Rating53% 2.6567752.6567752.6567752.6567752.656775
The movie centers around Paul Tracy (Sheen), aide to a United States Senator (Raymond J. Barry), and who has political aspirations of his own. He is asked to transport Robin (Green), the Senator's delinquent daughter, to an institution for girls. He asks his aspiring writer roommate T.S. (Ruck) to come along for the trip. Robin is initially drugged by her father and put unconscious into the back of their car, but as soon as she wakes up she tries everything and anything to escape.
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, 1h35
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes, Hugh Quarshie, Julian Curry
Rating51% 2.5532752.5532752.5532752.5532752.553275
George Loomis (William Katt) and and his wife Dr. Susan Matthews-Loomis (Sean Young) find a family of Mokele-mbembe (referred to as Brontosaurs) in Central Africa and they struggle to protect them from a greedy scientist named Dr. Eric Kiviat (Patrick McGoohan) and the military.
More American Graffiti, 1h50
Directed by George Lucas, Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Political films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith
Rating53% 2.6988152.6988152.6988152.6988152.698815
The film, set over the course of four consecutive New Year's Eves from 1964 to 1967, depicts scenes from each of these years, intertwined with one another as though events happen simultaneously. The audience is protected from confusion by the use of a distinct cinematic style for each section. For example, the 1966 sequences echo the movie of Woodstock using split screens and multiple angles of the same event simultaneously on screen, the 1965 sequences (set in Vietnam) shot hand-held on grainy super 16 mm film designed to resemble war reporters' footage. The film attempts to memorialize the 1960s with sequences that recreate the sense and style of those days with references to Haight-Ashbury, the campus peace movement, the beginnings of the modern woman's liberation movement and the accompanying social revolt. One character burned his draft card, showing a younger audience what so many Americans had done on the television news ten years before the movie's release. Other characters are shown frantically disposing of their marijuana before a traffic stop as a police officer pulls them over, and another scene shows the police brutality with billy clubs during an anti-Vietnam protest.
Cisco Pike
Cisco Pike (1972)
, 1h35
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Gene Hackman, Karen Black, Harry Dean Stanton, Viva, Roscoe Lee Browne
Rating64% 3.2424253.2424253.2424253.2424253.242425
The film centers on Cisco Pike (played by Kris Kristofferson), an out of luck and out of work musician, and Sergeant Leo Holland (played by Gene Hackman). Cisco is a former drug dealer who has been busted several times by Sgt. Holland, and one night Holland comes to the door and demands that Cisco move a large amount of marijuana for him or suffer jail. He has several misadventures selling the marijuana, meets up with Doug Sahm at a recording studio, has his friend Jesse Dupree visit (played by Harry Dean Stanton, billed as H.D. Stanton for this film), meets a pregnant rich girl and her friend, and tries to make good with the Sergeant in the time allotted to him.

Scriptwriter

Back to the Beach, 1h32
Directed by Lyndall Hobbs
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Sports films, Surfing films, Musical films
Actors Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Lori Loughlin, Connie Stevens, Tommy Hinkley, David Bowe
Roles Story
Rating59% 2.950882.950882.950882.950882.95088
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are husband and wife living in Ohio — far from the surf and sand of their earlier lives together. Frankie is a stressed out car salesman and former "Big Kahuna" of the surf scene in California while Annette bottles her own sense of angst up in a bevy of shopping, and they are both raising a son, Bobby, who is in the throes of rebellion against his seemingly square folks.
Losin' It
Losin' It (1983)
, 1h40
Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Films about virginity
Actors Tom Cruise, Shelley Long, John Stockwell, John P. Navin, Jr., Jackie Earle Haley, Henry Darrow
Roles Histoire
Rating49% 2.4531952.4531952.4531952.4531952.453195
Four teenagers from late 1950s Los Angeles are on their way to Tijuana, Mexico: Dave, Woody, Spider, and Dave's brother Wendell. Dave, Spider, and Woody are there to lose their virginity, while Wendell came along with them to buy fireworks. They end up picking up a woman named Kathy, who goes with them because she wants a fast divorce from her husband, and they get into a series of misadventures south of the border.
More American Graffiti, 1h50
Directed by George Lucas, Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Political films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith
Roles Writer
Rating53% 2.6988152.6988152.6988152.6988152.698815
The film, set over the course of four consecutive New Year's Eves from 1964 to 1967, depicts scenes from each of these years, intertwined with one another as though events happen simultaneously. The audience is protected from confusion by the use of a distinct cinematic style for each section. For example, the 1966 sequences echo the movie of Woodstock using split screens and multiple angles of the same event simultaneously on screen, the 1965 sequences (set in Vietnam) shot hand-held on grainy super 16 mm film designed to resemble war reporters' footage. The film attempts to memorialize the 1960s with sequences that recreate the sense and style of those days with references to Haight-Ashbury, the campus peace movement, the beginnings of the modern woman's liberation movement and the accompanying social revolt. One character burned his draft card, showing a younger audience what so many Americans had done on the television news ten years before the movie's release. Other characters are shown frantically disposing of their marijuana before a traffic stop as a police officer pulls them over, and another scene shows the police brutality with billy clubs during an anti-Vietnam protest.
Convoy
Convoy (1978)
, 1h50
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Musical films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Seymour Cassel, Madge Sinclair
Roles Scénariste à l'image
Rating63% 3.1502053.1502053.1502053.1502053.150205
In the Arizona desert, truck driver Martin "Rubber Duck" Penwald is passed by a woman in a Jaguar E-Type, which leads to an encounter with a sheriff's deputy. Proceeding on his way, Rubber Duck runs into fellow truck drivers Pig Pen/Love Machine and Spider Mike, when another "trucker" informs them over the C.B. that they are okay to increase their speed. The "trucker" turns out to be cold county Sheriff "Dirty Lyle" Wallace, a long-time nemesis of the Duck, who extorts them for $70 each.