William Lundigan
The athletic William Lundigan stood 6' 2" and weighed 170 pounds. He played football, basketball and tennis at Syracuse (NY) University. He was discovered by Charles R. Rogers, head of production at Universal Studios. Rogers happened to tune into radio station WFBL in Syracuse. He was so intrigued by a voice he heard reading a commercial that he gave instructions for the speaker to be located, brought to New York and tested for movie possibilities. The speaker, of course, was Lundigan. He had gotten the announcing job because his father owned the building that housed WBFL. Later in his career Lundigan was successful as the host of the CBS programs Climax! (1954) and Shower of Stars (1954). For these programs he delivered on-air commercials for their sponsor, Chrysler Motors. Off screen he traveled as a goodwill ambassador for the company, covering over 100,000 miles on the road and visiting 560,000 people in 90 weeks.
William Lustig
William Lustig was born on February 1, 1955 in Bronx, New York. During his teenage years, Lustig avidly watched a huge volume of lowdown trashy exploitation fare at numerous 42nd Street grind house theaters in Manhattan and also worked as a movie theater usher in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, he took a few film classes at New York University. Lustig began his film career in his mid to late teens, working behind-the-scenes in various minor production capacities on a handful of hardcore X-rated porno pictures as well as a production assistant on both "The Seven Ups" and "Death Wish." He made his debut as a director, producer and editor with the hardcore porn features "Hot Honey" and "The Violation of Claudia." Lustig directed both of these movies under the alias Billy Bagg. In 1980, Lustig found himself at the center of a storm of controversy when he made the grim, gory and disturbing slasher sleaze splatter landmark "Maniac," which boasts an incredibly intense performance by the legendary character actor Joe Spinell as a vicious depraved psychopath and plenty of hideously graphic and gruesome make-up effects by horror genre icon Tom Savini. In 1982, Lustig followed up "Maniac" with the tough, gritty and exciting New York urban revenge opus "Vigilante." In 1988, he delivered another winner with the terrific "Maniac Cop," a violent horror action flick about an undead New York police officer on a killing spree which was the first of several cinematic collaborations with fellow maverick independent filmmaker Larry Cohen. Lustig followed up with the 1989 stirring action item "Hit List" and the suspenseful serial killer thriller "Relentless" were likewise on the money excellent and entertaining offerings. However, the two "Maniac Cop" sequels were strictly hit-or-miss affairs: the second one was a worthy successor to the superior original and the third one was a regrettably mediocre entry in the series. Lustig's last film as a director to date was the nifty and enjoyable fright flick "Uncle Sam." Since 1997, William Lustig went on to initially produce retrospective DVD documentaries for Anchor Bay and now currently runs the outstanding DVD label Blue Underground which restores and re-releases popular and little seen cult movies and other grind house action, drama, and horror films.
William Lyle
William Lyle is known for To Pimp a Butterfly (2017) and Later with Jason Suel (2014).
William Lynn
William Lynn is an actor, known for Vikingernes sidste rejse (2020).
William M. Shepherd
William M. Shepherd is known for Space Station 3D (2002) and The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station (2021). He is married to Beth.
William M. Steinberg
William M. Steinberg is known for 9 (2009), Megamind (2010) and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001).
William MacDonald
Besides his work in film and television , William has also appeared in over 80 theatrical productions as of 2018. He has played the title roles in "MacBeth" and "Coriolanus", King Henry in "The Lion in Winter", as well as Petruchio in "Taming of the Shrew", Enobarbus in "Antony and Cleopatra", Ned Weeks in "The Normal Heart", John in "Oleanna", Aston in "The Caretaker", Starbuck in "The Rainmaker" and Johnny in "Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune", to name a few. He has also directed over a dozen plays, including his own compositions "Coco-Puffs and Caviar" and "Phantoms". His son, Kaito, was born in March of 2004. His daughter, Ariel, was born in August of 2018.
William Macdonald
William Macdonald is an actor, known for Emma Fielding Mysteries (2017) and Middleman (2016).
William Magnuson
Born and raised in Austin, Texas, William has been a working actor since the age of sixteen, most notably performing in the feature film, Inbetween Girl and the popular web series SKAM: Austin. After high school, William dove directly into the industry and learned how to survive and grow as an actor and crew member. Gaining film knowledge both in front and behind the camera helped him co-found Wrong Brothers Productions where he produces, directs, and acts in short films and client-based work. When he's not being a jack of all trades in the film industry, William pursues the simple joys of life, like spending all of his money at the Alamo Drafthouse.
William Mahnken
William Mahnken began in the film industry with Blackflight Studios in 2007 with the production of Exit 101 and The Legend of Seven Toe Maggie. William later moved near Atlanta and began writing screenplays. William also works as a background artist, appearing in such films as Baywatch, Killing Reagan, and Legend of Seven Toe Maggie.
