William Rice

Acting

William Rice

Born October 17, 1931 · Vermont, USA

Died January 23, 2006 · aged 74

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.

Known For

Coffee and CigarettesCoffee and Cigarettes · 2004
Coffee and Cigarettes
6.92004
MovieComedyDrama
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Doomed LoveDoomed Love · 1983
Doomed Love
7.51983
MovieDrama
Depressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. While in the doctor's waiting room, he strikes up a friendship with Lois, the doctor's receptionist, and later with Lois' husband, Bob. Although the couple wants to help Andre recover from his depression, Andre finds himself unable to pull his life out of the past.
One Last Thing...One Last Thing... · 2005
One Last Thing...
6.02005
MovieComedyCrime
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best friends, goes to New York to fulfill his dream.
Subway RidersSubway Riders · 1981
Subway Riders
7.21981
MovieThriller
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
The OffendersThe Offenders · 1980
The Offenders
7.01980
MovieDrama
A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
The Big BlueThe Big Blue · 1988
The Big Blue
10.01988
MovieCrimeDrama
Not to be confused with Luc Besson's film of the same title from the same year. Documentarian Andrew Horn's second narrative feature.
Thunder 2Thunder 2 · 1987
Thunder 2
5.71987
MovieActionDrama
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
SleepwalkSleepwalk · 1986
Sleepwalk
6.11986
MovieFantasyDrama
When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life.

Filmography

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One HourOne Hour · 1990
One Hour
6.61990
MovieDocumentary
One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is it a unique record of a particular time and place—July 26, 1990, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. in the Lower East Side near Robert Frank’s studio (we note in a Daily News headline that after some 20 years the Zodiac killer still hasn’t been identified)—it’s also an experiment in fragmentary language, gesture, and life caught unawares. Snippets of dialogue captured in passing at phone booths and crosswalks, in alleyways, subways, and diners—chance encounters, only presumably, with people going about their day—have something of the aleatory cut-up technique of the Dadaists in the 1920s and William Burroughs and Byron Gysin in the 1950s, an effort to divine new and deeper meanings in ordinary life. — Museum of Modern Art