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Bill Young is one of Australia's most experienced character actors with over 20 feature films under his belt, a wealth
of television experience, an impressive array of theatre credits, and is one of Australia's premier voiceover artists.
He also directs (film, theatre and television) and his feature film, "The Roly Poly Man" and is available on DVD. "The
Roly Poly Man" picked up a number of international film festival awards, most notably the Vincent Price Audience Award at
XVth Fantafestival (Italy).
Bill has just wrapped filming on Baz Luhrmann's THE GREAT GATSBY. His scenes were shot in the fabled Valley of the
Ashes. He recently appeared in the Channel 10 telemovie A MODEL DAUGHTER and toured with the stage production of THE NARGUN
AND THE STARS for the Sydney and Perth Festivals before 2 weeks in Hobart with Playwriting Australia at the Ten Days on the
Island Festival.
Bill was also spied on TV in the Hanks/Spielberg produced mini-series "THE PACIFIC" playing the role of Lt Col McMaster.
Other screen work includes 'Emergence', 'The Pacific', 'Superman Returns', 'Japanese Story', 'You Can't Stop The Murders',
'Chopper', 'The Nuggett', 'The Matrix', and 'The Road to Nhill' as well as the dramatised doco "The Bridge" playing the role
of Jack Lang which won the Logie Award for Best Documentary in 2008. He has also had the honour of working as a SpFX assistant,
blowing wind on Wookies in the latest Star Wars epic, "The Return of the Sith". Not a lot of actors can claim that dubious
pleasure!
The Roly Poly Man (IMDb)
Voiceover demo
Bill banging on at YouTube!
The big news is that Bill is now represented for all his acting
work by Katherine and Eloise at Creative Management in Sydney. He still retains Jules and the gang at RMK for all his Voice
Over work.
He also played bass in the Stanley Steamers, the house band for the Black
+ White Artists Awards night in 2011 (and had the wonderful pleasure of jamming for a while with the legendary artist/musician,
Reg Mombassa!)
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| Bill with producer Karl Conti and co-director/cameraman Myles Conti in Norway |
A VERY SHORT WAR, narrated and co-directed (with Myles Conti)
by Bill and written by his sister Susan, went to air on the History Channel to great reviews. It has since been purchased
by the ABC and shall go to air in 2012. SBS Content
Sales and Distribution are handling all international sales.
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| Poster for 'A Very Short War' |
The DVD of A VERY SHORT WAR is available at JB HiFi, Dymocks,
ABC Shops and most DVD outlets.
A VERY SHORT WAR's website
OTHER INTERESTS
Music, b+w photography, art, carpentry, gardening, activism, small gatherings with interesting folk...as well as playing
in 'therapy' bands.
Check out Bill's page on the IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
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