Bill Young

Bill Young is one of Australia’s best known character actors and has forged a fifty year career as an performer in film, television, stage and voice over since 1975.

He has appeared in 25 feature films including The Great Gatsby, Chopper, The Matrix, The Road to Nhill, No Worries and Japanese Story. On top of that he has appeared in many telemovies (A Model Daughter, Road from Coorain) and shorts. He has appeared in countless television productions – dramas, mini-series, telefeatures, sitcoms, dramatized docos – that include The Bridge, House of Bond, The Hollowmen, The Pacific and Corridors of Power.

He also has an enviable stage career, appearing in over twenty productions at the SOH, Ensemble, Marian Street Theatre, Old Fitz, Griffin Theatre, Performing Lines, Footbridge, Comedy Theatre and Athenaeum (Melbourne), Harvest Theatre (South Australia) and others.

Bill has also maintained a stellar voice over career for the past 40 years since 1983 and continues this work. For the past twenty years has been one of the regular voices on the ABC’s Media Watch.

He not only performs but also directs and writes. The award winning The Roly Poly Man was his feature film directorial debut, and he also co-directed, narrated and presented the documentary A Very Short War. He was also a regular writer on Channel 7’s Hey Dad.

Bill is in the twilight of his wonderful career, but has just finished appearing in a new Australian feature film, shot in East Arnhem Land which was his twenty-fifth feature film appearance. So there is life in the old bloke yet! As can be seen by the above information, he is a highly experienced actor and a pleasure to work with, and would add to any production that would like to have him onboard.