Tony Bill

Gerard Anthony "Tony" Bill (born August 23, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. He produced the 1973 movie The Sting, for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips.

Early life

Bill was born in San Diego, California and attended St. Augustine High School. He majored in English and art at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, from which he graduated in 1962.

Career

Bill began his career as an actor in the 1960s, first appearing on screen as Frank Sinatra's ingenuous younger brother in Come Blow Your Horn (1963). Thereafter, he was cast as Chris Herrod in the 1965 episode "An Elephant Is Like a Tree" of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus.

Bill specialized in juveniles and young leads. In the mid-1960s he made two appearances in the BBC's Play of the Month anthology series, he took the lead in Lee Oswald Assassin and played Biff to Rod Steiger's Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (both 1966).