William Rice
Date of birth: 1931-10-17
Place of birth: Vermont, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Bill Rice
Biography
William Rice was a member of the avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many years. A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s.
Movie Credits
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004-03-12
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who al
Decoder
1984-02-19
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners,
Vortex
1982-09-01
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poe
Rain
1989-01-01
Michael Keenan's film Rain takes us in from the main title to the payoff of its namesake. The heat a
Thunder II
1987-03-16
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt depu
Subway Riders
1981-04-02
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down
Sleepwalk
1986-09-09
When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she so
One Last Thing...
2005-09-12
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his
Stray Dogs
1985-01-01
A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
G-Man
1978-01-01
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bom
Manhattan Love Suicides
1985-01-01
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate
The Trap Door
1980-09-01
A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ah
Doomed Love
1983-10-23
Depressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. While in the doctor's
Last Supper
1992-08-02
In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in
The Deflowering
1994-01-01
A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As
The Offenders
1980-01-02
A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
Letters to Dad
1979-01-01
The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jon
Jonas in the Desert
1994-01-01
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of t
Final Reward
1978-01-01
A fascinating drama-document on the punk period.
Her Name is Lisa
1987-01-09
A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide.
One Hour
1990-01-01
One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the stree
Tomorrow Always Comes
2006-01-01
A 1940s campy film noir sex romp comedy thriller. Harlem, Chinatown, Park Ave. It’s the same old sto
Documents, Memory, for My Friend Bill Rice
2006-01-01
This short video portrait of the great East Village painter, writer, and actor Bill Rice – made by h
Soap
“Inspired by the prose poem by Francis Ponge, SOAP is a series of monologues and stories concerning