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NAME: Bill Paxton
PROFILE: Name: Bill Paxton
Birth Name: William Paxton
Height: 5'11"
Sex: M
Nationality: American
Birth Date: May 17, 1955
Birth Place: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Profession: actor, director, musician, producer, screenwriter
Education: Richmond College in London, England
New York University in New York, NY
Husband/Wife: Louise Paxton (née Newbury; British)
Father: John Lane Paxton (businessman)
Mother: Mary Lou Paxton
Son: James Paxton (born on February 23, 1994)
Daughter: Lydia Paxton (born on December 19, 1997)
Claim to fame: as Private Hudson in Aliens (1986)
Contact: Click here
GOSSIP:
  • Paxton has a cunning plan to bring Sean Connery and Michael Caine together for a romantic comedy called DOUG AND DAVE telling of two painters from Wiltshire who started the crop circle hoax in the Seventies. (June 25, 2003)
  • Bill had rheumatic fever in the 7th grade. It kept him hospitalized for a month and bed-ridden for four months. He had to take regular doses of penicillin until he was 18.
  • As a teen, Bill caddied for golf great Ben Hogan in Fort Worth.
  • He directed the theatrical short FISH HEADS (1982) which won a Special Award at the 1982 Melbourne Film Festival.
  • He co-authored and produced the short SCOOP (1983) which won an Honorable Mention at the 1983 USA. Film Festival.
  • He was a member of the 80s rock band Martini Ranch. James Cameron directed a video for their song Reach featuring many Cameron alumni (Kathryn Bigelow, Lance Henriksen, Jeanette Goldstein).
  • He does not particularly like being recognized as Chet from WEIRD SCIENCE (1985).
  • He came very close to landing the lead role in DARKMAN (1990).
  • In his struggling actor days he was a parking attendant at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
  • He turned down Sam Raimi's THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995).
  • He nearly landed the lead in THE ROCKETEER (1991).
  • The original title of the script of FRAILTY (2001) before he got involved was GOD'S HANDS.
  • Was originally cast as Stifler's dad in AMERICAN PIE 2 (2001), but had to leave the project due to his schedule.
  • He used the same beer can throughout the entire filming of FRAILTY (2001).
  • A scene with he and Billy Bob Thornton in A SIMPLE PLAN (1998) was lost by Northwest Airlines in January 1998 while in transit from Minnesota to Los Angeles. The missing scene had been shot in Minnesota. The film was insured, and the missing scene was reshot.
  • MORE BILL PAXTON TRIVIA
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