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William Vince is a Producer and In Memory Of Canadien born on 23 november 1963 at British Columbia (Canada)

William Vince

William Vince
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Nationality Canada
Birth 23 november 1963 at British Columbia (Canada)
Death 21 june 2008 (at 44 years) at Vancouver (Canada)

William D. "Bill" Vince (November 23, 1963 – June 21, 2008) was a Canadian producer. He produced Air Bud (1997), Dead Heat (2002), Saved! (2004), and Capote (2005) (for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture). He was Robert Vince's younger brother.

Best films

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
(Producer)
Capote (2006)
(Producer)

Usually with

Robert Vince
Robert Vince
(9 films)
Mike Southon
Mike Southon
(4 films)
Jay Brazeau
Jay Brazeau
(5 films)
Garvin Cross
Garvin Cross
(3 films)
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Filmography of William Vince (24 films)

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Producer

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, 2h2
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Inspiré de l'univers des contes et légendes, Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Verne Troyer, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield, Tom Waits
Roles Producer
Rating67% 3.396433.396433.396433.396433.39643
Doctor Parnassus' (Plummer) theatre troupe, which includes sleight of hand expert Anton (Garfield), confidant Percy (Troyer), and Parnassus' daughter Valentina (Cole), performs outside a London pub. A drunk (Richard Riddell) barges onstage and crashes through a stage mirror, where his face changes (Bruce Crawford), and he enters a journey of imagination that culminates in a choice between a torturous-looking twelve-step program and going to a pub. He enters the pub, but it explodes; in the real world, Parnassus says he has lost another one to Mr. Nick (Waits).
Push
Push (2009)
, 1h51
Directed by Paul McGuigan
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Comedy science fiction films, Superhero films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Colin Ford, Cliff Curtis, Joel Gretsch
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.0509253.0509253.0509253.0509253.050925
An organization within the United States government called the Division has been secretly hunting down and experimenting on people with psychic abilities since 1945. Two "Movers", Nick Gant (Colin Ford) and his father Jonah (Joel Gretsch), are running from Agent Carver (Djimon Hounsou), a Division "Pusher". Jonah tells Nick of a vision he received from a "Watcher" about a young girl he must help in the future in order to take down Division. Jonah helps Nick escape as Carver arrives and kills Jonah.
Edison And Leo, 1h19
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Animation, Romance
Actors Powers Boothe, Gregory Smith, Carly pope, Jay Brazeau, Scott McNeil, Brian Drummond
Roles Executive Producer
Rating55% 2.7802352.7802352.7802352.7802352.780235
The film is about the relationship between crazy scientist George Edison and his son Leo. After being electrocuted as a child, Leo is no longer able to touch people without electrocuting them.
Butterfly on a Wheel
Directed by Mike Barker
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about families
Actors Gerard Butler, Maria Bello, Callum Keith Rennie, Pierce Brosnan, Dustin Milligan, Nicholas Lea
Roles Producer
Rating65% 3.2984153.2984153.2984153.2984153.298415
Chicago residents Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) and his wife, Abby Randall (Maria Bello) have the perfect life and a perfect marriage. With their beautiful young daughter, Sophie, they are living the American dream... until today. When Sophie is suddenly kidnapped, they have no choice but to comply with the abductor's demands. The kidnapper, Tom Ryan (Pierce Brosnan), a cold and calculating sociopath, takes over their lives with the brutal efficiency of someone who has nothing to lose.
Capote
Capote (2006)
, 1h54
Directed by Bennett Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about writers, Prison films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about capital punishment, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins, Jr., Bruce Greenwood, Mark Pellegrino, Katherine Shindle
Roles Producer
Rating72% 3.64843.64843.64843.64843.6484
In 1959, the four dead bodies of the Clutter family are discovered on their Kansas farm. While reading The New York Times, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is riveted by the story and calls The New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn (Bob Balaban) to tell him that he plans to document the tragedy.
Just Friends, 1h36
Directed by Roger Kumble
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein, Stephen Root, Chris Marquette
Roles Producer
Rating61% 3.099863.099863.099863.099863.09986
In 1995, Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) is an obese, curly-haired high school student with a lisp, braces, and a "gentle giant" demeanor. He attends the graduation party of his best friend, Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart), whom he secretly has a huge romantic crush on. He plans to confess his feelings by writing them in Jamie's yearbook. When Chris tries to return Jamie's yearbook, it is taken by her despicable ex-boyfriend, Tim (Ty Olsson). Chris is publicly humiliated when Tim reads his (Chris) confession aloud to the party but is further demoralized when Jamie doesn't reciprocate his intense and close romantic feelings and affections. After they share a kiss, Tim and the class burst out and humiliate Chris again. Embarrassed, Chris leaves on his bicycle tearfully and vows to leave town and never return in order to achieve greater success than his classmates.
Ripley Under Ground, 1h41
Directed by Roger Spottiswoode
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Peinture, Films about psychiatry
Actors Barry Pepper, Jacinda Barrett, Tom Wilkinson, Willem Dafoe, Alan Cumming, Claire Forlani
Roles Producer
Rating59% 2.997872.997872.997872.997872.99787
After his friend, a successful young artist, is killed in a car accident, Tom Ripley (Pepper) and his friends hide his body and concoct a scheme in which they forge his paintings, eventually making a great deal of money. When an art collector (Dafoe) complains that a painting he bought from the gallery is a fake, Ripley must use his inimitable talents to defuse the problem by whatever means necessary.
Bad Girls from Valley High, 1h24
Directed by John T. Kretchmer
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Julie Benz, Monica Keena, Nicole Bilderback, Jonathan Brandis, Janet Leigh, Christopher Lloyd
Roles Producer
Rating37% 1.86021.86021.86021.86021.8602
Danielle (Julie Benz), Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) are the three most popular and most nasty girls in high school. While the leader Danielle is used to getting what she wants, she is unable to attract lonesome ex-jock Drew (Jonathan Brandis) due to his mourning over the death of his girlfriend Charity Chase. Although Charity was believed to have committed suicide, this wasn't the case as Danielle, Tiffany and Brooke lured Charity to a cliff, hoping to terrorize her into breaking up with Drew, but ended up killing her by accident.
Saved!
Saved! (2004)
, 1h32
Directed by Brian Dannelly
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, LGBT-related film
Actors Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Eva Amurri, Patrick Fugit, Heather Matarazzo
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.3485553.3485553.3485553.3485553.348555
Teenager Mary Cummings (Jena Malone), who has "been born again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore. She and her two best friends, Hilary Faye (Mandy Moore) and Veronica (Elizabeth Thai), have formed a girl group called the Christian Jewels. Mary’s "perfect Christian boyfriend" Dean Withers (Chad Faust) tells her, as they’re swimming underwater, that he thinks he's gay. In her shock, Mary hits her head in the pool and has a vision in which Jesus tells her that she must do everything she can to help Dean. Hoping for a sign, Mary goes to a shooting range with Hilary Faye, who has a "spiritual solution for everything" and tells Mary (not knowing about the situation with Dean) that if all else fails, Jesus could still restore their "spiritual and emotional virginity." Believing that Jesus will restore her purity, Mary sacrifices her virginity to have sex with Dean in an attempt to restore his heterosexuality.
The Snow Walker, 1h43
Directed by Charles Martin Smith
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Barry Pepper, Kiersten Warren, Robin Dunne, Jon Gries, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell
Roles Producer
Rating72% 3.6476753.6476753.6476753.6476753.647675
In the summer of 1953, Canadian bush pilot Charlie Halliday (Barry Pepper), a brash, former Second World War bomber pilot based in Yellowknife, is flying a routine job in the Queen Maud Gulf on the Arctic Ocean when he encounters a small band of Inuit people who plead for his help. They are traveling with a sick young woman, Kanaalaq (Annabella Piugattuk), and they ask Charlie to fly her to a hospital. Charlie suspects she has tuberculosis. At first he refuses, but when they offer him two valuable walrus tusks for his help, he reluctantly agrees to take her to Yellowknife.
Dead Heat
Dead Heat (2002)
, 2h
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony LaPaglia, Radha Mitchell, Lothaire Bluteau, Daniel Benzali, Kay Panabaker
Roles Producer
Rating52% 2.6070652.6070652.6070652.6070652.607065
A cop forced into retirement by ill health is persuaded by his brother to buy a race horse. It all goes a bit wrong when the horse is stolen by a local mob boss. He is chasing after a guy that took his "buy" money.
Liberty Stands Still, 1h32
Directed by Kari Skogland
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Wesley Snipes, Linda Fiorentino, Tanya Allen, Oliver Platt, Hart Bochner, Martin Cummins
Roles Executive Producer
Rating56% 2.847512.847512.847512.847512.84751
Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino) is the Vice President of Marketing of one of the largest gun manufacturers in the United States, McCloud Industries. She's the daughter of the company's founder, and married to the company's ruthless CEO, Victor Wallace (Oliver Platt). While Victor is busy trafficking in international armaments, Liberty takes business breaks to conduct an affair with actor Russell Williams (Martin Cummins).
The 4th Floor, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelley Duvall, Austin Pendleton, Artie Lange, Sabrina Grdevich
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8990952.8990952.8990952.8990952.899095
The film follows Jane (Lewis) who has inherited a rent-controlled brownstone apartment from her late aunt, and, despite her boyfriend Greg's (Hurt) appeals, has decided to move in and live on her own for the first time. She meets Martha Stewart, (Duvall) her neighbor from the first floor, who tells her the names of all the occupants of the building, including the person who lives on the 4th floor, an old woman named Alice who is a hermit. The next morning, she finds a note on her door, warning her against the noise she was making while moving in. Jane quickly dismisses it and continues moving around her furniture. Another note appears and she calls a locksmith after someone tampered with her locks. The locksmith (Bell) is a strange man who lives in the building across from Jane, whom she suspected of harming a woman earlier.
Air Bud: Golden Receiver, 1h30
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, American football films, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tim Conway, Kevin Zegers, Cynthia Stevenson, Gregory Harrison, Dick Martin, Nora Dunn
Roles Executive Producer
Rating45% 2.2582352.2582352.2582352.2582352.258235
Several years after becoming Buddy's legal owner, Josh Framm (Kevin Zegers), now a teenager, becomes angry when his mother, Jackie, begins dating Patrick Sullivan, the town's new veterinarian after a couple of failed dates. It all starts when Sullivan innocently tosses Josh's basketball-savvy dog, Buddy, a football one day, and he discovers that Buddy also has an uncanny ability to play the sport of football. Soon enough, Buddy begins playing on Josh's Junior High football team. Meanwhile, two Russian siblings by the names of Natalya and Popov kidnap Buddy in hopes of having him perform as the special attraction in the Russian circus while Josh runs away when Patrick proposes to his mother. His coach finds him and convinces him that just because Patrick is in his life now, he doesn't have to stop loving his father and he returns home, but Patrick is gone and Buddy is missing. The Timberwolves are forced to play the final game without Buddy and are unable to win. Buddy and the other animals manage to escape and Natalya and Popov are placed into the custody of the Russian embassy after their van falls into a lake following a chase sequence. Meanwhile, Patrick finds Buddy and takes him to the game. With the help of Buddy, the team catches up, but Buddy is tackled and taken out of the game. The Timberwolves are forced to finish the game without him and thanks to Josh and Tommy, they win. Later, Josh stops Patrick from leaving and convinces him to stay. The family later goes to a Seattle Seahawks football game and Buddy sneaks onto the field.