Bill Condon

Bill Condon

1955-10-22 New York City, New York, USA 34 Credits

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...

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

2025

Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer

Directing Writing Producing

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

Come from Away

2021

Producer

7.5
Producing

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

The Good Liar

2019

Director, Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

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

The Greatest Showman

2017

Screenplay

7.9
Writing

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

Beauty and the Beast

2017

Director

7.0
Directing

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

Mr. Holmes

2015

Director

6.5
Directing

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

The Fifth Estate

2013

Director

6.0
Directing

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

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

2012

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

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

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

2011

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

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

Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History

2008

as Self

8.0
Acting

The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls

2006

Screenplay, Director

6.7
Writing Directing

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

Kinsey

2004

Screenplay, Director

6.6
Writing Directing

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

Shortcut to Happiness

2003

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

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

Chicago

2002

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

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

The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster

2002

as Self

7.7
Acting

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!

Now You See Him: 'The Invisible Man' Revealed!

2000

as Self

6.2
Acting

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

The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale

1999

as Self

6.0
Acting

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'

She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'

1999

as Self

7.5
Acting

Documentary about the making of 1935's "The Bride of Frankenstein."

Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters

1998

Screenplay, Director

7.0
Writing Directing

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

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

1995

Director

5.4
Directing

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

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

1994

Director, Co-Executive Producer

5.0
Directing Producing

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

Deadly Relations

1993

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Dead in the Water

1991

Director

5.2
Directing

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

White Lie

1991

Director

6.0
Directing

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

F/X2

1991

Writer

6.3
Writing

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

Murder 101

1991

Writer, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

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

Sister, Sister

1987

as Priest (uncredited)

4.6
Acting

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

Sister, Sister

1987

Director, Writer

4.6
Directing Writing

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

Strange Invaders

1983

as (uncredited)

4.8
Acting

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

Strange Invaders

1983

Story, Screenplay

4.8
Writing

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

Strange Behavior

1981

as Bryan Morgan

5.4
Acting

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

Strange Behavior

1981

Writer, Associate Producer

5.4
Writing Producing

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

Directing Writing

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

Directing

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...