Biography
William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films, including Gods and Monsters, Chicago, Kinsey, Dreamgirls, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, and Beauty and the Beast. He has received two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters and Chicago, winning for the former. Description above from t...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Kiss of the Spider Woman
2025
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency. The two form an unlikely bond as Molina rec...

Come from Away
2021
Producer
7,000 passengers are stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland after all flights into the US are grounded on September 11, 2001. Filmed live ...

The Good Liar
2019
Director, Producer
Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer...

The Greatest Showman
2017
Screenplay
The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Beauty and the Beast
2017
Director
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Mr. Holmes
2015
Director
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he re...

The Fifth Estate
2013
Director
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the ...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2
2012
Director, Screenplay
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in fron...

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
2011
Director, Screenplay
Bella Swan and Edward Cullen's honeymoon phase is abruptly disrupted by betrayals and unforeseen tragedies that endanger their world.

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
as Self
The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

Dreamgirls
2006
Screenplay, Director
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

Kinsey
2004
Screenplay, Director
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea...

Shortcut to Happiness
2003
Screenplay
In Manhattan, the aspirant writer Jabez Stone is a complete loser: he is not able to sell his novels, he lives in a lousy apartment and he does not ha...

Chicago
2002
Screenplay
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chic...

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
2002
as Self
The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!
2000
as Self
A documentary from Universal about the movie "The Invisible Man" (1933) directed by James Whale.

The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale
1999
as Self
Written, co-produced and co-directed by David J. Skal, THE WORLD OF GODS AND MONSTERS is a behind-the scenes chronicle of the making of the 1998 Acade...

She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'
1999
as Self
Documentary about the making of 1935's "The Bride of Frankenstein."

Gods and Monsters
1998
Screenplay, Director
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and...

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995
Director
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns ...

The Man Who Wouldn't Die
1994
Director, Co-Executive Producer
This film concerns a writer of mystery stories who bases his villain on a criminal, played by Malcolm McDowell, who is incarcerated in prison. Escapin...

Deadly Relations
1993
Director
Leonard Fagot has four daughters and loves them so much, that he usurps his control over them. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date....

Dead in the Water
1991
Director
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be ap...

White Lie
1991
Director
A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.

F/X2
1991
Writer
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goe...

Murder 101
1991
Writer, Director
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found mur...

Sister, Sister
1987
as Priest (uncredited)
Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterio...

Sister, Sister
1987
Director, Writer
Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterio...

Strange Invaders
1983
as (uncredited)
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

Strange Invaders
1983
Story, Screenplay
Alien beings, who settle in a small midwestern town, are disturbed by a young professor determined to rescue his daughter from their clutches.

Strange Behavior
1981
as Bryan Morgan
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being...

Strange Behavior
1981
Writer, Associate Producer
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being...
Marley
N/A
Director, Screenplay
A musical re-imagining of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, told from the perspective of Ebenezer Scrooge'a business partner Jacob Marley.
Untitled George Clinton Biopic
N/A
Director
Based on Clinton’s memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?, it is the untold story of influential pioneer of funk an...