Bill Lancaster

William Henry Lancaster ( born November 17, 1947 in Los Angeles, California, † January 4, 1997 ) was an American film producer, screenwriter and actor.

Life

He grew up the second oldest of five children of actor Burt Lancaster and Norma Anderson. Even as a child he contracted polio, and had time life a shortened leg. In June 1963, he graduated from Emerson High School, and soon began his career as an author.

In 1976 appeared the first film for which he wrote the screenplay. The Bad News Bears was a comedy with Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal in the lead roles. The film was directed by Michael Ritchie. Two years later the sequel, from the William in 1979 created a television series produced and released. For John Carpenter's horror movie The Thing from Another World in 1982, he wrote the screenplay.

On the basis of disease and shortened leg, however, the 1 meter 85 centimeters tall man shunned the big stage. In only two roles he appeared: 1974 in The Midnight Man and 1975 in Moses. In both cases, his father Burt Lancaster was his co-star. In Moses his father played William Lancaster even the young Moses, while the older Moses.

Lancaster was married to Kippie Kovacs, daughter of film comedian Ernie Kovacs. They had one child, their daughter Keigh Lancaster.

He died on January 4, 1997 of cardiac arrest; He survived his father by only two years.