Biography
Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English-born American actor, film director, and film writer, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston Esq. in the three films in the Bill & Ted series (1989-2020). He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film Freaked.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Adulthood
2025
The lives of two siblings are completely upended when they discover a dead body, long buried in their parent’s basement, sending them down a rabbit ho...

Adulthood
2025
Producer, Director
The lives of two siblings are completely upended when they discover a dead body, long buried in their parent’s basement, sending them down a rabbit ho...

Smurfs
2025
as Hefty Smurf (voice)
When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. ...

Absolute Dominion
2025
In the year 2063 AD, the world faces catastrophe as zealots and extremists wage a global holy war, crumbling cities and dismantling entire countries i...

Absolute Dominion
2025
Producer
In the year 2063 AD, the world faces catastrophe as zealots and extremists wage a global holy war, crumbling cities and dismantling entire countries i...

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
as Self
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of hor...

Destroy All Neighbors
2024
as Vlad / Public Defender
William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy an...

Destroy All Neighbors
2024
Producer
William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy an...

Sandtown
2023
Executive Producer
30 years after a team of young social-justice-warriors move to Sandtown, a crumbling neighborhood in West Baltimore, the son of two of them returns ho...

The YouTube Effect
2023
as Self
YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion dollars. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destr...

The YouTube Effect
2023
Director, Writer, Producer
YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion dollars. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destr...

In Search of Darkness: Part III
2022
as Self
The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that ...

Blue's Big City Adventure
2022
as Cab Driver
When Josh gets the opportunity of a lifetime to audition for Rainbow Puppy’s Broadway musical, Josh and Blue skidoo to NYC for the very first time whe...

In Search of Tomorrow
2022
as Self - Interviewee
A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artists who made them and by those who were ins...

This Is GWAR
2021
as Self
The powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive ...

Zappa
2020
Director, Producer
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life an...

In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
as Self
The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Sea...

Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
as Bill
Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns t...

Bill & Ted Face the Music
2020
Executive Producer
Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns t...

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! A Look Back at a Most "Excellent Adventure"
2020
as Self
A look back on the making of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with the creators of the film, featuring Interviews With Actors Alex Winter And Keanu Re...

Showbiz Kids
2020
as Self
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a chil...

Showbiz Kids
2020
Director, Producer, Writer
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a chil...

In Search of Darkness
2019
as Self
An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact ...

Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain
2018
Director, Producer, Writer
Hacktivist and blockchain expert Lauri Love fights extradition in TRUST MACHINE—his computer skills a threat to the US government. Tech innovators str...

The Panama Papers
2018
Writer, Producer, Director
A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the...

The Body
2018
as The Voice
In Los Angeles, on Halloween night, a hitman tries to transport a corpse in plain sight, but people he stumbles upon on the street, believing that his...

Trump's Lobby
2017
Director, Producer
Since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a continual flow of high level visitors to the penthouse apartment in Trump Tower. Their arrivals w...

Banking on Bitcoin
2016
as Himself
Not since the invention of the Internet has there been such a disruptive technology as Bitcoin. Bitcoin's early pioneers sought to blur the lines of s...

Relatively Free
2016
as Himself, Filmmaker (uncredited)
A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively Fr...

Relatively Free
2016
Director, Producer
A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively Fr...

Quantum Is Calling
2016
Director, Producer
Zoe Saldana enlists the help of Stephen Hawking to solve a quantum riddle in order to get Simon Pegg’s cat back. This follows Paul Rudd’s epic quantum...
Anyone Can Quantum
2016
as Cameo
The game is real and the stakes are high as the future of humanity hangs in the balance. Can Paul Rudd, an actor, beat Stephen Hawking, one of the gr...
Anyone Can Quantum
2016
Director
The game is real and the stakes are high as the future of humanity hangs in the balance. Can Paul Rudd, an actor, beat Stephen Hawking, one of the gr...

Smosh: The Movie
2015
as Uncle Keith (uncredited)
An embarrassing video of Anthony surfaces online right before his fifth high school reunion. The Smosh dudes then race to pull down the clip before it...

Smosh: The Movie
2015
Director
An embarrassing video of Anthony surfaces online right before his fifth high school reunion. The Smosh dudes then race to pull down the clip before it...

Deep Web
2015
Director, Writer, Producer
Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, t...

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
as Self - Actor
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yor...

Grand Piano
2013
as Assistant
Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic perfor...

Downloaded
2013
Director
A documentary that explores the downloading revolution; the kids that created it, the bands and the businesses that were affected by it, and its impac...

Ben 10 Alien Swarm
2010
as Nanomech (voice)
Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.

Ben 10 Alien Swarm
2010
Director, Executive Producer
Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.

Ben 10: Race Against Time
2008
as Constantine Jacobs
Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.

Ben 10: Race Against Time
2008
Director, Executive Producer
Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.

Fever
1999
Director, Writer
A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.

The Borrowers
1997
as TV Gangster
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries a...

Freaked
1993
as Ricky Coogan
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

Freaked
1993
Director, Writer
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
1993
as Stinx On Ice
Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s...
Meals on Wheels
1992
as Dweeb
Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries fol...
Meals on Wheels
1992
Writer, Director
Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries fol...

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991
as Bill / Granny Preston
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicate...

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come
1990
as Howie
Made for CBS' "Save The Planet" Earth Day Special. Howie, having been confronted about his polluting ways, is visited later that night in his dreams b...

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come
1990
Director, Writer
Made for CBS' "Save The Planet" Earth Day Special. Howie, having been confronted about his polluting ways, is visited later that night in his dreams b...
Gorgon Video Magazine Vol. 2
1990
as Self
Another low-budget horror documentary.

Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1
1990
as Self
SLAMMIN!... Rap's #1 video magazine. Here are the acts you're going to be meetin' in the premiere episode of this 1990 Video VHS Magazine produced by ...

Rosalie Goes Shopping
1989
as Schatzi Greenspace
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit ca...

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1989
as Bill S. Preston
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school...

Impact Video Magazine
1989
Counter-culture video magazine created by Stuart Shapiro, featuring Bill Hicks, Robert Williams, Public Enemy, Butthole Surfers, Survival Research Lab...

Aisles of Doom
1989
as Grendel T.W. Ulcerous
In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for ...

Aisles of Doom
1989
Writer, Director
In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for ...

Haunted Summer
1988
as Dr. John William Polidori
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates i...

Bar-B-Que Movie
1988
as Mexican Hitchhiker
In this twisted spoof of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," a vacationing family encounters a communal group of cannibalistic misfits, played by legendar...

Bar-B-Que Movie
1988
Director
In this twisted spoof of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," a vacationing family encounters a communal group of cannibalistic misfits, played by legendar...

The Lost Boys
1987
as Marko
When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

Medium Rare
1987
as Timmy
Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic g...

Death Wish 3
1985
as Hermosa
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a la...

Squeal of Death
1985
as Howie / Various Characters
Absurd slapstick cartoon-like comedy about Howie, a scrawny kid pushed around by his slob dad and everyone else. He loves cinema and becomes obsessed ...

Squeal of Death
1985
Director, Writer
Absurd slapstick cartoon-like comedy about Howie, a scrawny kid pushed around by his slob dad and everyone else. He loves cinema and becomes obsessed ...

Gauguin the Savage
1980
as Clovis
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to aban...

The Idiot Box
N/A
as Himself
After the success of Bill & Ted, Winter and his directing partner Tom Stern were able to sell a series to MTV. One of the first live action shows ever...

61 Suns
N/A
Thanks
A filmmaker’s meditation on loss and grief. A digital eulogy and swan song to his creative partner and best friend. Mixed media woven into the fading ...