Bill L. Norton is an American film director, writer and producer. Among many projects, he is the writer-director of Cisco Pike and More American Graffiti.
Norton is most notable as a film director, including his first feature film, Cisco Pike in 1972, which he also wrote.[1] [2] [3] He worked as a screenwriter in the 1970s and '80s, writing the scripts for Convoy and Outlaw Blues, among other films.[4]
He also has directed many television series, among them Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, John Doe, Hack, Las Vegas, , Lincoln Heights and Roswell.
He is the son of screenwriter William W. Norton, who was convicted in 1986 of importing arms to Northern Ireland for the IRA and the INLA.[5]
Sometimes he is credited as B.W.L. Norton, Bill Norton or William Lloyd Norton.
1964 | How to Succeed with Girls | ||
1972 | Cisco Pike | ||
1977 | Outlaw Blues | ||
1978 | Convoy | ||
1979 | More American Graffiti | ||
1983 | Losin' It | ||
1985 | |||
1987 | Back to the Beach | ||
Three for the Road |
1965 | Girl Happy | Uncredited camera operator | |
1966 | The Chase | ||
The Fortune Cookie | |||
1973 | Messiah of Evil | Actor |
Gargoyles | 1972 | TV movie | |
The Twilight Zone | 1985-1986 | "Teacher's Aide" | |
''Monsters!" | |||
Tour of Duty | 1987-1989 | ''Pilot''|Also co-executive producer|-|''Notes from the Underground''| rowspan="3" |Also writer & co-executive producer|-|''Brothers, Fathers, and Sons''|-|''Battling Baker Brothers'' | |
''Pushin' Too Hard'' | Also co-executive producer | ||
''Soldiers'' | |||
''Angel of Mercy'' | |||
''Saigon: Part 1'' | |||
''Saigon: Part 2" | |||
''Popular Forces'' | |||
Grand Slam | 1990 | ''Grand Slam'' | |
''Chop Shop''||-|Angel of Death|| rowspan="2" |TV movies|-|False Arrest|1991||-|The Boys of Twilight| rowspan="2" |1992|"A Bend in the River"||-|Crossroads|||-| rowspan="2" |Seaquest DSV| rowspan="2" |1993|''Brothers and Sisters'' | |||
''Give Me Liberte''||-| rowspan="2" |Hercules: The Legendary| rowspan="2" |1994|''Hercules and the Amazon Women''||-|''Hercules in the Underworld'' | |||
The Women of Spring Break | 1995 | TV movies | |
Deadly Whispers | |||
Stolen Innocence | |||
Gone in the Night | 1996 | ||
Them | |||
Vows of Deception | |||
A Deadly Vision | 1997 | ||
Our Mother's Murder | |||
Bad to the Bone | |||
Every Mother's Worst Fear | 1998 | ||
Thirst | |||
Vengeance Unlimited | 1998-1999 | ''Justice''||-|''Legalese''||-|Sons of Thunder| rowspan="2" |1999|''Moment of Truth''||-|A Crime of Passion||TV movie|-| rowspan="2" |Profiler| rowspan="3" |2000|''Quid Pro Quo'' | |
''Pianissimo'' | |||
The Fugitive | ''Sanctuary''||-| rowspan="2" |Roswell| rowspan="2" |2000-2001|''The End of the World''||-|''Control'' | ||
FreakyLinks | 2001 | ''Subject: Sunrise at Sunset Streams'' | |
The Invisible Man | ''Going Postal'' | ||
''Den of Thieves'' | |||
''Flash to Bang''||-| rowspan="6" |Angel| rowspan="6" |2001-2003|''Happy Anniversary''||-|''That Vision Thing'' | |||
''Provider'' | |||
''Supersymmetry''||-|''Calvary'' | |||
''Life of the Party''||-|Buffy the Vampire Slayer| rowspan="4" |2002|''Two to Go''||-|Pasadena|''Someone to Talk To'' | |||
Haunted | ''Last Call''||-|John Doe|''Past Imperfect'' | ||
Hack | 2003 | ''Sinners and Saints'' | |
The Guardian | 2004 | ''Amends'' | |
''Remember'' | |||
Medium | 2005 | ''Coded''||-|''A Priest, a Doctor and a Medium Walk Into an Execution Chamber''||-|Threshold|''Pulse''||-|Ghost Whisperer|''Hope and Mercy'' | |
2005-2006 | ''Ex Stasis''||-|''Slither'' | ||
''Country Crossover''||-| rowspan="5" |The Unit| rowspan="5" |2006-2009|''Unannounced''||-|''Silver Star'' | |||
''Two Coins''||-|''Inside Out''||-| ''Bad Beat'' | |||
Heartland | 2007 | ''Picking Up Little Things'' | |
Lincoln Heights | 2007-2009 | ''Missing''||-|''The Old Man and the G'' | |
''Ode to Joy'' | |||
''Persons of Interest''||-|Las Vegas| rowspan="2" |2008|''Three Weddings and a Funeral: Part 1'' | |||
Generation Gap | TV movie |
Tour of Duty | 1987-1988 | ''Dislocations'' | Co-executive producer | |
''War Lover'' | ||||
''Sitting Ducks'' | ||||
''Burn Baby, Burn'' | ||||
''The Good, the Bad, and the Dead'' | ||||
''Nowhere to Run'' | ||||
''Roadrunner'' | ||||
''USO Down'' | ||||
''Under Siege'' | ||||
''Gray-Brown Odyssey'' | ||||
''Blood Brothers'' | ||||
''The Short Timer'' | ||||
''Paradise Lost'' | ||||
''The Hill'' | ||||
Grand Slam | 1990 | ''Who's Crazy?'' | Executive producer |