Bill Norton - Rotten Tomatoes

Bill Norton
Highest Rated:   71% Back to the Beach (1987)
Lowest Rated:   13% Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
Birthday:   Not Available
Birthplace:   Not Available
California-born director W.L. Norton began his interesting if uneven output with the underrated 1972 drama Cisco Pike, starring Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, and Harry Dean Stanton. Despite this cast and some good reviews, the movie somehow got lost amid a brace of drug-based crime films coming out at the time, and Norton next turned up working on television. Norton's 1972 TV movie Gargoyles, starring Cornell Wilde and Bernie Casey, was a superb horror movie, atmospheric, well paced, and exceptionally convincing (helped by Stan Winston's monster make-up). Since then, however, Norton has not had an opportunity to show off, mostly working in less noticeable vehicles such as the ill-fated More American Graffiti (1979), the TV production Tour of Duty (1987), and 1991's False Arrest.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING TITLE CREDIT BOX OFFICE YEAR
No Score Yet Generation Gap
  • Director
— 2008
No Score Yet Every Mother's Worst Fear
  • Director
— 1998
No Score Yet Our Mother's Murder
  • Director
— 1997
No Score Yet Vows of Deception (Deadly Seduction)(Tangled Web)
  • Director
— 1996
No Score Yet Gone in the Night
  • Director
— 1996
No Score Yet Deadly Whispers
  • Director
— 1995
No Score Yet Stolen Innocence
  • Director
— 1995
No Score Yet Hercules in the Underworld
  • Director
— 1994
No Score Yet Hercules and the Amazon Women
  • Director
— 1994
No Score Yet Welcome to Paradise
  • Director
— 1994
No Score Yet False Arrest
  • Director
— 1991
No Score Yet Tour of Duty: Hard Rain -The Tet 1968
  • Director
— 1989
No Score Yet Bravo Company - Tour of Duty 2
  • Director
— 1988
71% Back to the Beach
  • Screenwriter
— 1987
No Score Yet Three For The Road
  • Director
— 1987
No Score Yet Tour of Duty
  • Director
— 1987
13% Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
  • Director
— 1985
18% Losin' It
  • Screenwriter
— 1983
20% More American Graffiti
  • Screenwriter
$8.2M 1979
43% Convoy
  • Screenwriter
— 1978
No Score Yet Outlaw Blues
  • Screenwriter
— 1977
33% Gargoyles
  • Director
— 1972
No Score Yet Cisco Pike
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
— 1972

TV

RATING TITLE CREDIT YEAR
84% The Unit
2006-2009
  • Actor
  • Director
  • 2009
  • 2007
  • 2006
45% Heartland
2007
  • Director
  • 2007
No Score Yet Lincoln Heights
2007-2009
  • Director
  • 2007
No Score Yet Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
  • Director
  • 2006
  • 2005
No Score Yet Ghost Whisperer
2005-2010
  • Director
  • 2005
No Score Yet Medium
2005-2011
  • Director
  • 2005
No Score Yet Pasadena
2001-2002
  • Director
  • 2005
44% Threshold
2005
  • Director
  • 2005
20% Hack
2002-2004
  • Director
  • 2003
88% Angel
1999-2004
  • Director
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001
  • 2000
83% Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1997-2003
  • Director
  • 2002
73% John Doe
2002-2003
  • Director
  • 2002
25% Freakylinks
2000-2001
  • Director
  • 2001
No Score Yet Roswell
1999-2002
  • Director
  • 2001
  • 2000
50% The Invisible Man (2000)
2000-2002
  • Director
  • 2001
  • 2000
No Score Yet Sons of Thunder
2020
  • Director
  • 1999
15% Vengeance Unlimited
1998-1999
  • Director
  • 1999
  • 1998
No Score Yet seaQuest DSV
1993-1996
  • Director
  • 1995
  • 1994
  • 1993

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