Tony Bill started out in Hollywood as an actor, became an Oscar-winning producer ("The Sting"), and then a director for film ("My Bodyguard, Five Corners, Untamed Heart, Flyboys", and more) and television ("Truman Capote's "One Christmas," Harlan County War, Pictures of Hollis Woods"). He teaches and lectures widely on film and lives with his family in the oldest house in Venice, California.