Billy's Bio
Birthday: June 23, 1962Birth Place: New York City, New YorkBirth Name: William E. WirthMr. Wirth attended Collegiate Prep School in Manhattan and Brown University in Providence, RI with a degree in economics and business. While there he managed to break a few school track records including the high jump. Discovered by photographer Bruce Weber while at Brown University he started modeling in NYC in the mid 80's for such magazines as Seventeen, GQ, Interview, and teen magazines. Before Brown University Billy had excelled in sports all through school and has always been an athlete at heart. He dream was to be in the Olympics an as a young man he did participate in the first Empire Games in New York City while attending Collegiate. At Colligate one of his fellow basketball players and student was David Duchoveny who he later acted with in Red Shoe Diaries for Showtime Network While at Brown he did his first ever commercial for Diet Pepsi before moving on to television and movies. His first television show was The Equalizer and moved to LA to start an acting career. His first movie was Seven Minutes In Heaven. Fifteen years later he has finally made it behind the camera as a director and also running his own production company. As he fine tunes his craft he will keep acting but likes the feeling of being in control of the complete film project. Early in his career he appeared on the first televised showing of American Gladiators, and a couple of years later MTV Rock and Jock series . Billy has always had a fondness for basketball and has managed in at least five movies and one music video to be using a hoop. Billy has always been serious about writing, directing, and has taken his love of photography to a new level by doing Polaroid Art which he sells to private collectors, and has shows in many California galleries. At the present time he is working on having his own website, he will feature his art and photography for fans and collectors. His first directing job was for the short film, Kismet in 1999, it is this project that opened doors for backing his first full length Independent film, MacArthur Park, produced by his own Wirthwhile Productions. MacArthur Park had it's World Premiere at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival 2001 (Grand Prize nominee) and this lead to the film festival circuit starting with Taos Talking Picture Festival (Land Grant nominee),Seattle International Film Festival as part of the Black Experience in Films, Side Walk Moving Picture Festival in Birmingham AL, Athens International Festival, Milan Italy International Festival, Halifax Festival, Urban World Festival in New York City, and ending the year of festivals in November 2001 with St. Louis 10th Film Festival. In 1989 Billy played Eddie Tempest, a glam rock singer in the television series Wise Guy . Inspired by that role in the 90's he fronted as a vocalist for a rock band in LA called Dust N'Bones no tapes were ever released by this band but they did work the local LA Club Scene. He now has a band called The Cronies, they are currently working on an acoustic CD with music written by Billy and Steven Costentino. Billy is very comfortable behind the scenes of movie making, liking directing to being "The Quarterback in the Super Bowl". He is still into acting and still looking for that one big break through role. At the present time he is working on a documentary that combines the plight of the homeless, one of his long time interests and a strong force behind the making of MacArthur Park. Over the past years many Billy Wirth fans have had the opportunity to meet Billy at different Film Festivals and events, as have the two owners of the fanclub site. We invite everyone to check out their thoughts and remarks to get a better picture of this complicated man. Whether it is a Teen Vampire in Lost Boys, a modern day Warrior in War Party, doing background work on music videos for such singers as Shania Twain,Meredith Brooks or the Rock Band Testament. Between 1998 and 2001 Billy branched out on television playing a doctor with a Vigara supply on Sex In The City went back in time to be a Witch in Charmed , and a high rolling hitman/thief on Martial Law . Billy spent time in 2002 shooting a documentary on the anniversary of 911 by covering the "Magic Bus Tour" with musicians Jill Gatsby and Biddy Sullivan hitting 17 cities in 21 days and ending in NYC on September 11, for the anniversary. We have great photos and background on this project on the site. Fans and viewers contributed along the way. His personal artwork and other projects will be listed for fans and viewers. MacArthur Park Billy's first feature length directing film has been released as of May 18th 2004 on DVD and VHS. There is a behind the scenes making of the film a commentary by Billy,Tyrone Atkins and Thomas Byrd. In July 2003 Billy was in Santa Fe, New Mexico shooting a film for director and long time friend Andrew Wagner. This film "The Talent Given Us" opened in as it's World Premire on June 2004 at The CineVegas Film Festival where it won The Jury Prize. Now out on DVD.. 2003 also saw the release of Kismet on DVD/VHS, a new film The Drone Virus for Little Studio Productions. Billy has appeared on CSI/Vegas in "Eleven Angry Jurors", MacArthur Park has also be released on DVD/VHS by Sundance Entertainment and runs on the Sundance Channel. 7 Mummies was filmed in Arizona for Pretty Dangerous Films and is now out on DVD. Guest starred on TV's Summerland as a drug dealing wheel chair bond low life.Powder Blue with Jessica Beil and 2 unreleased films are in the can. Directing and being behind the camera seems to be where he is most comfortable now.Lost Boys Fans keep an eye out at the yearly Horror Conventions Billy and the Boys are out working for this Cult Film with over 25 years since release.
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