Bill Coontz

Bill Coontz

Nascimento : 1917-08-28, Johnson, Iowa, USA

Morte : 1978-04-07

Perfil

Bill Coontz

Filmes

Comboio
Old Iguana
Baseado na música de C.W. McCall, Comboio narra a história de um lendário caminhoneiro, Rubber Duck (Kris Kristofferson), que se desentende com um xerife e se rebela contra a corrupção policial. Após ser roubado e humilhado pelo xerife Lyle (Ernest Borgnine), Rubber convoca pelo rádio centenas de caminhoneiros para um protesto. Em poucas horas, um poderoso comboio de caminhões de todos os modelos e tamanhos levanta a poeira das estradas do Arizona para juntar-se a ele, rumo ao México. Esta longa jornada irá trazer à tona questões sociais de classes, raças e sexo, assim como o lugar da lei na sociedade moderna. Mas para chegar em seu destino e assim por fim a corrupção policial e a política da qual estão sendo vítimas, eles terão que enfrentar muitos desafios...
A Maldição das Aranhas
Clyde
Numa pacata cidade do Texas, um veterinário e um bióloga lutam para conter o avanço de uma infestação de tarântulas que passaram a ter seu comportamento alterado devido a ação humana. Elas passaram a avançar sobre a cidade e a atacar humanos e animais causando pavor e morte por onde passam.
Smoke In The Wind
Stapp Huckaby (as Bill Foster)
The Civil War is over but in the Ozarks of Arkansas people are not ready to forgive and forget. The Mondier brothers have returned from fighting for the Union and Mort Fagan is keeping things difficult for them in the community.
Guns of a Stranger
Ace Gorenum
Forced to kill a young Abilene gunman in the line of duty, Sheriff Matthew Roberts, torn by anguish takes off his badge and leaves Kansas. Roberts becomes known as 'The Drifter', wandering restlessly through the west. In Arizona, he aids elderly rancher, Tom Duncan, Tom's granddaughter, Virginia and kid-brother Danny (Steven Tackett) in their fight to save their small ranch from a crooked banker and his gang of outlaws.
Big Daddy
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.
Heaven with a Gun
Stunts
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
Heaven with a Gun
Townsman (uncredited)
Jim Killian arrives in a small Arizona town hoping to establish a peaceful life as the local preacher, but he soon finds himself in the middle of a feud between sheep ranchers and cattlemen. Leloopa, a young Native American woman, pleads for Killian's help after her shepherd father is hung by Coke Beck, the vicious son of the head cattle rancher. Killian must weigh his actions carefully lest he perpetuate the cycle of retribution and revenge.
A Banda da Família Bower
Townsman (uncredited)
Durante a Convenção de 1888, que determina os limites e divisões do território americano, uma família de músicos enfrenta problemas quando seus membros divergem quanto à inclinação política. Ao se mudar para Dakota, um território pró-republicano, a orientação democrata do avô acaba trazendo dificuldades para a família.
Stakeout!
Benny (as William Foster)
After serving three years in prison for a bank robbery, Joe Dasco is released and reunited with his son. Together they both go looking for work in the Texas oil fields. Not being able to hold a steady honest job, Joe Dasco along with a few men that he befriends along the way attempt to kidnap an oil baron's son. The kidnapping fails and Joe Dasco is shot and killed. His son Joey is then left alone but inherits what his father fought and died for.
Shootout at Big Sag
Beale Hawker
A man has his eyes set on controlling the Big Sag territory in Montana and hopes to achieve his goal by forcing a newly-arrived family from Texas from their land. Hoping to convince the local saloonkeeper to help him, the man sends his daughter into town with instructions for his potential partner. A storm waylays the daughter during her trip to town and she is forced to stay at the home of her father's intended victims, leading to an interesting turn or two.
Bloodlust!
Insane Man
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
The Girl in Lovers Lane
Bill Coontz
Two drifters contend with love and murder in a small town.
Braço É Braço
Torchy (uncredited)
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach robbery, and get even with the man who killed his brother.
Plunderers of Painted Flats
Bill (as William Foster)
To scare the squatters from the cattle country he claims as his own, rancher Ed Sampson orders the Martin farm house burned. Galt Martin is killed, and his eldest son, Joe, is pistol-whipped. Timmy Martin sees the killer, Cass Becker and points him out when he and Joe are in Painted Flats. Cass forces Joe to put on a gun but Ned East, a retired gunfighter, saves the inexperienced Joe by forcing Cass to draw on him, and Ned is the winner.
A Filha de Frankenstein
Loading Dock Foreman
Dr. Frankenstein's insane grandson attempts to create horrible monsters in modern day L.A.
No Place to Land
Bill
Director Albert C. Gannaway's 1958 melodrama, about the sordid private lives of California crop-dusting pilots, stars John Ireland, Mari Blanchard, Robert Middleton, Gail Russell and Jackie Coogan.
The Littlest Hobo
Attendant
When a roaming German Shepherd Dog rescues a boy's pet lamb from the slaughterhouse he struggles to reunite them, despite being chased by police and getting little cooperation from the lamb.
She Demons
Soldier
A couple wash up on an uncharted island where Nazi experiments are going on.
Cavaleiros em Luta
Turk
A villainous cavalry officer is trying to force the owner of a hacienda to give him his land when a courageous settler comes to the rescue.
Ride Out for Revenge
Soldier (uncredited)
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
Hidden Guns
Dave - Deputy
The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where there is a witness willing to testify. Meanwhile, Stragg hires a gunman to take care of the sheriff and the witness.
Wichita
Cowpuncher (uncredited)
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
O Selvagem
Cyclist (uncredited)
Johnny Strabler (Marlon Brando) é o líder de uma gangue de motociclistas conhecida como Black Rebels Motorcycle Club. Eles vivem perigosamente, enfrentando os perigos e arriscando suas vidas inconsequentemente. O grupo chega à Wrightsville, uma pequena cidade, e após causar arruaças tomando o troféu de um vencedor de corridas, seguem para outra cidade, invadindo uma cafeteria. Johnny conhece Kathie Bleeker (Mary Murphy), filha do chefe da polícia, e que trabalha na cafeteria. Ele decide ir embora, mas seu grupo começa mais uma briga, desta vez com um grupo de rivais liderados por Chino (Lee Marvin). (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Torrentes de Paixão
Young Man (uncredited)
George e Rose Loomis estão em lua de mel em Niagara Falls, mas ele não sabe que sua infiel mulher planeja o seu assassinato forjando um falso suicídio, com a ajuda do amante a quem pede que mate o seu marido.
The Maverick
Cattleman (uncredited)
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders.
Man from the Black Hills
Jed - Shotgun Rider (uncredited)
As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's father has established a financial empire--and that a local opportunist (Randy Brooks) has capitalized on this by claiming to be the old man's son.
Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory
Foster - Henchman (uncredited)
Story concerns the efforts of Buffalo Bill to protect the Indian's land from a gang who want to get the gold buried there. The outlaws disguise themselves as Indians and raid and plunder the settlers in order to blame the tribe.