Bill (1981 film)

Bill

Genre	Biography Drama
Written by	Corey Blechman
Story by	Barry Morrow
Directed by	Anthony Page
Starring	Mickey Rooney Dennis Quaid Largo Woodruff Anna Maria Horsford Harry Goz
Theme music composer	William Kraft
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Alan Landsburg Bernard Sofronski
Producer(s)	Mel Stuart
Cinematography	Mike Fash
Editor(s)	George Hively
Running time	100 minutes
Production company(s)	Alan Landsburg Productions
Distributor	CBS
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	December 22, 1981 (1981-12-22)

Bill is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical drama film starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid based on the life of Bill Sackter. The film was broadcast on CBS on December 22, 1981.

A sequel, Bill: On His Own, was released in 1983.

Plot

Bill is a man with mental retardation in his 60s. He ventures out into the world for the first time after spending most of his life at Grandville, a dreary inner city institution in Minneapolis, Minnesota, since age seven (when his parents sent him there). Bill is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love for the first time in his life.

Cast

Mickey Rooney - Bill Sackter
Dennis Quaid - Barry Morrow
Largo Woodruff - Beverly Morrow
Anna Maria Horsford - Marge Keating
Harry Goz - Dr. Tom Walz
Kathleen Maguire - Florence Archer

External links

Films directed by Anthony Page

Inadmissible Evidence (1968) The Missiles of October (1974) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) Absolution (1978) The Lady Vanishes (1979) Bill (1981) Bill: On His Own (1983) Forbidden (1984) Second Serve (1986) Monte Carlo (1986) Scandal in a Small Town (1988) Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991) Middlemarch (1994) My Zinc Bed (2008)

Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk (1971)
That Certain Summer (1972)
The Shadow Box (1980)
Bill (1981)
Brideshead Revisited (1982)
The Thorn Birds (1983)
Something About Amelia (1984)
The Jewel in the Crown (1985)
Promise (1986)
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
War and Remembrance (1988)
Lonesome Dove (1989)
Decoration Day (1990)
One Against the Wind (1991)
Sinatra (1992)
Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
The Burning Season (1994)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny (1996)
George Wallace (1997)
From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
RKO 281 (1999)
Dirty Pictures (2000)
Band of Brothers (2001)
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Angels in America (2003)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Empire Falls (2005)
Elizabeth I (2006)
Longford (2007)
John Adams (2008)
Grey Gardens (2009)
Carlos (2010)
Downton Abbey, series 1 (2011)
Game Change (2012)
Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Fargo, season 1 (2014)
Wolf Hall (2015)

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