Fun Facts about Bill
Inspired by the book “Cry of the Kalahari” by Mark and Delia Owens, Bill became a self funded conservation volunteer and spent a year working in Namibia, Africa, on projects to help protect the Black Rhino and Cheetah. In an effort to boost opportunity in this remote region Bill created an annual cultural festival, which is attended by thousands, and started the first all donated public library in Africa to further education.
Upon returning to the U.S. to raise a family, Bill started successful construction and farming businesses. Along the way he rode a horse across the Mongolian Steppes, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, rode motorcycles with his sons around Sri Lanka, snowboarded in the Andes, and canoed the Bowron Lakes chain in NE British Columbia to name a few of his travels.
He has run for federal and state office, written legislation for the U.S. House of Representatives and lobbied in Washington D.C. concerning the issues of money in politics.
He guest hosts the Dave Congalton Show, a hometown live radio program, concerning local and national issues and travels the country doing appearances for his work in the movies. He resides near the beach along the central coast of California.
Bill's first voice over work was in a landmark animated film called “Fire & Ice” directed by Ralph Bakshi (American Pop, Lord Of the Rings) based on the drawings of Frank Franzetta (Often known as the Godfather of fantasy art), using a technique called “rotoscope” - an animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.
William was first hired to play the character of Prince Taro and was rotoscoped for this character and voices the character as well.
During ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement — to improve the sound quality of an actor’s dialogue after filming wraps), Bakshi decided that he wanted William to also voice the lead character of Larn, played by Randy Norton who was the rotoscoped actor. So he plays both character voices.