Bill Irwin
William Mills Irwin (born April 11, 1950) is an American actor, clown, and comedian. He began as a vaudeville-style stage performer and has been noted for his contribution to the renaissance of American circus during the 1970s. He has also made a number of appearances on film and television, and he won a Tony Award for his role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway. He is also known as Mr. Noodle on the Sesame Street segment Elmo's World, has appeared in the Sesame Street film short Does Air Move Things?, and regularly appeared as a therapist on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.893 |
Birthday | 1950-04-11 |
Place of Birth | Santa Monica, California, USA |
Also Known As | William Irwin, Fool Moon , 比爾·歐文, |
1980
Popeye
5.4/593
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and wi...
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Popeye
2000
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
6.759/7258
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
1998
Just the Ticket
5.463/27
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps h...
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Just the Ticket
1991
Hot Shots!
6.575/2106
The gang that created Airplane and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this often hilarious spoof starring Charlie Sheen, who previously only...
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Hot Shots!
2002
Igby Goes Down
6.6/296
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophre...
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Igby Goes Down
2006
Lady in the Water
5.559/1338
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is act...
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Lady in the Water
1988
Eight Men Out
6.923/235
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching...
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Eight Men Out
1991
Stepping Out
5.8/18
A has-been Broadway performer gives tap lessons to a group of misfits who, through their dance classes, bond and realize what they can achieve.
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Stepping Out
2008
Rachel Getting Married
6.3/552
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.
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Rachel Getting Married
1990
My Blue Heaven
6.035/230
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...
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My Blue Heaven
1991
Scenes from a Mall
5.2/72
A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make s...
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Scenes from a Mall
2011
Higher Ground
5.9/51
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own beg...
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Higher Ground
2003
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
6.8/58
Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced, writ...
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Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
1998
Illuminata
5.5/20
It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Ill...
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Illuminata
2012
Never Stand Still
9/1
The film explores why dance matters - to those who create and perform it and to those who watch it. This documentary tells the remarkable story of how...
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Never Stand Still
1993
Silent Tongue
4.8/18
Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Roe awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't bur...
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Silent Tongue
1992
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
9/4
This program features the music of Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim in a 1992 performance at Carnegie Hall. An American Musical Theatre writer for o...
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Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
1997
Subway Stories
6/13
An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.
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Subway Stories
2014
Interstellar
8.439/34881
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the va...
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Interstellar
2006
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Reach for the Sky!
5/1
Join Elmo as he discovers how much fun it can be to go to school, to jump really high, and to reach for the sky. Elmo finds out the importance of goin...
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Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Reach for the Sky!
2002
The Laramie Project
6.4/48
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage versio...
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The Laramie Project
2007
Raving
6.7/3
In New York City, a young woman forms a curious bond with a lonely older man after they encounter one another on a street corner.
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Raving
1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.408/354
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic enta...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
2016
Confirmation
6.8/143
Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had...
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Confirmation
2015
Ricki and the Flash
5.779/691
Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning hom...
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Ricki and the Flash
2011
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Penguins and Friends
0/0
Hop to it and join Elmo for this riveting and ribbiting video where he learns all about frogs, penguins and horses. Featuring 3 Elmo's World shows ful...
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Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Penguins and Friends
1983
The Regard of Flight
0/0
A performer/artist with a bag of vaudeville tricks and the help of his trusty piano player must prove to a critic that there is still a way to present...
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The Regard of Flight
2007
Across the Universe
7.142/1309
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shapi...
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Across the Universe
2015
Show Boat
0/0
Hammerstein and Kern’s Show Boat is a true classic of American musical theater - a tale of life on the Mississippi from the 1880s to the 1920s is both...
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Show Boat
1993
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
6.4/1764
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach...
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
7.191/55
A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style a...
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The Great Buster: A Celebration
2010
Goldstar, Ohio
0/0
Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respective small towns in Ohio.
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Goldstar, Ohio
2017
Old Hats
0/0
Bill Irwin and David Shiner in their award-winning, critically acclaimed production of Old Hats from Signature Theatre. This production reunites the c...
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Old Hats
2015
Identity Theft
0/0
A story about separation.
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Identity Theft
2019
It Takes a Lunatic
5.3/9
The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist.
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It Takes a Lunatic
2019
Sesame Street | 50th Anniversary Celebration!
9.4/5
C is for Celebrate! Join host Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the residents of Sesame Street - human and monsters alike - to celebrate 50 years of learning,...
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Sesame Street | 50th Anniversary Celebration!
2016
Circus Kid
8/1
The Pickle Family Circus was founded by Lorenzo Pisoni's parents in 1974. The film documents the spirit, the lunacy, the daring, the danger and the dy...
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Circus Kid
1990
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
0/0
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of...
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Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
2020
Irresistible
6.059/421
A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.
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Irresistible
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
6.464/1486
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow s...
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The Manchurian Candidate
1980
Mudflat
0/0
Years ago, artists would walk around the muck at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, and build loads of sculptures out there on the flats...
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Mudflat
2021
Lust Life Love
3.5/8
A star-crossed love story set in the world of polyamory and sex parties in New York City.
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Lust Life Love
1992
The Last Mile
0/0
Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House a soprano is preparing for her debut in the opera Tosca. The stage manager gives her encouraging advice. She...
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The Last Mile
1991
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
5.7/3
Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It shows footage from World War I, World...
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Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers
2007
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: What Makes You Happy?
0/0
Join Sesame Street's curious red monster as he explores the things that make him happy: friends, singing, and dancing.
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Sesame Street: Elmo's World: What Makes You Happy?
2023
Rustin
6.692/164
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington...
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Rustin
1988
A New Life
4/12
Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back i...
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A New Life
2022
Spoiler Alert
7.031/128
Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Spoiler Alert
2004
Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Families, Mail & Bath Time!
0/0
What is the Noodle's family dance? Can you guess what Cookie Monster gets in the mail? Discover the answers to these questions and more with Elmo and...
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Sesame Street: Elmo's World: Families, Mail & Bath Time!
2024
High Tide
0/0
Lourenço decides to leave his homophobic family and country behind to get lost in the queer mecca of Provincetown, until the intense and unexpected ro...
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High Tide
2023
Endgame
0/0
Endgame tells the story of Hamm, who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound. His only escape from his solitary world...
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Endgame
2010
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
0/0
A look back at 40 years of Seasame Street.
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Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
1999
Niagara: A History of the Falls
0/0
The history of Niagara Falls and the people that made it famous.
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Niagara: A History of the Falls
2015
Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!
0/0
Come Play with Elmo! Everyone's favorite furry red friend is joined by all kinds of kids to play Elmo Says, Red Light Green Light, Freeze Dance, Pat-a...
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Sesame Street: Play All Day with Elmo!
1998
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin
0/0
Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.
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