Bill Fishman

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bill Fishman is an American film director, whose work includes the cult film Tapeheads, starring Tim Robbins and John Cusack, as well as the film version of the TV classic Car 54, Where Are You?. He won an award at the 1999 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival and has also directed numerous music videos for such artists as They Might Be Giants, George Clinton and Suicidal Tendencies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Fishman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Hollywood Signs
Director
A documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. It focuses on autograph dealing, the history of the autograph, autograph conventions, celebrities' point of view, and, of course, the folks whose lives revolve around autographs. Hollywood Signs is a love letter to a world with characters you definitely don't see every day.
My Dinner with Jimi
Director
 The story of the night The Turtles met The Beatles and Howard Kaylan had dinner with Jimi Hendrix.
Desperate But Not Serious
Director
Lily is a twenty-something aspiring writer who receives an invitation to attend a wedding reception with Jonathan, a handsome entomologist who also happens to be the man of her dreams. The only problem is that she's in San Francisco and the wedding is in L.A. Lily is therefore forced to enlist the aid of her friend Frances, an unrepentant party girl who has the L.A. nightclub scene wired. Their plans are completely derailed when they inadvertently lose the all important wedding invitation. This sets in motion an evening full of near misses with Jonathan, and thrusts Lily and Frances into a swarm of offbeat encounters with the underground Hollywood crowd. Off they go from club to club, from party to party and from boy to boy in an effort to find the wedding reception.
Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees
Music Director
Hey, Hey, It's the Monkees is a one-hour comedy special televised on the ABC Network on Monday February 17, 1997. The show features all four of the original Monkees and would be the last time Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork would appear together. Michael Nesmith wrote and directed the program.
Floundering
Insurance Salesman
A disaffected and increasingly disturbed young man journeys through post-riot Los Angeles.
Car 54, Where Are You?
Director
Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to testifying against orgainzed crime in Brooklyn, all the while dealing with their personal lives, overbearing spouses, common criminals, arms dealers, and their officious boss Captain Anderson.
Posse
Co-Executive Producer
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
Tapeheads
Story
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
Tapeheads
Screenplay
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
Tapeheads
Director
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
Blood Theatre
Director of Photography
Three young movie theater employees are given the task of re-opening a long-closed, old-time theater at which, many years before, a shocking series of grisly murders took place. It seems many more murders have occurred since then but all of this remains unknown to these three young upstart employees hoping to finally make it big on their own. As they approach the grand re-opening night, things keep getting stranger and more unsettling with items suddenly starting to move around by themselves without any seen aid and a terrifying old man seemingly haunting the premises.
Suicidal Tendencies: Institutionalized
Director
Mike Muir and Jack Nance star in this seminal piece of music history.
Butter Miracle Suite One
Producer
Tells the story of a woman who moves from California to New York. The song draws parallels with Duritz's personal journey and his own struggles with mental illness.
Butter Miracle Suite One
Writer
Tells the story of a woman who moves from California to New York. The song draws parallels with Duritz's personal journey and his own struggles with mental illness.
Butter Miracle Suite One
Director
Tells the story of a woman who moves from California to New York. The song draws parallels with Duritz's personal journey and his own struggles with mental illness.
Waltzing With Brando
Writer
The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect from his stable existence and convinced him that he should build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a tiny and uninhabitable Tahitian island. Based on a memoir by Bernard Judge
Waltzing With Brando
Director
The story of how Marlon Brando plucked Judge, an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect from his stable existence and convinced him that he should build the world’s first ecologically perfect retreat on a tiny and uninhabitable Tahitian island. Based on a memoir by Bernard Judge