Alex Winter

Alex Winter

1965-07-17 London, England, UK 71 Credits

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.

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Adulthood

Adulthood

2025

Acting

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

Adulthood

2025

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

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

Smurfs

2025

as Hefty Smurf (voice)

8.5
Acting

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

Absolute Dominion

2025

4.9
Acting

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

Absolute Dominion

2025

Producer

4.9
Producing

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

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994

2024

as Self

7.3
Acting

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

Destroy All Neighbors

2024

as Vlad / Public Defender

6.3
Acting

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

Destroy All Neighbors

2024

Producer

6.3
Producing

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

Sandtown

2023

Executive Producer

Producing

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

The YouTube Effect

2023

as Self

4.3
Acting

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

The YouTube Effect

2023

Director, Writer, Producer

4.3
Directing Writing Producing

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

In Search of Darkness: Part III

2022

as Self

7.4
Acting

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

Blue's Big City Adventure

2022

as Cab Driver

7.2
Acting

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

In Search of Tomorrow

2022

as Self - Interviewee

6.5
Acting

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

This Is GWAR

2021

as Self

6.9
Acting

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

Zappa

2020

Director, Producer

7.3
Directing Producing

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

In Search of Darkness: Part II

2020

as Self

7.7
Acting

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

Bill & Ted Face the Music

2020

as Bill

5.9
Acting

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

Bill & Ted Face the Music

2020

Executive Producer

5.9
Producing

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"

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! A Look Back at a Most "Excellent Adventure"

2020

as Self

Acting

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

Showbiz Kids

2020

as Self

6.8
Acting

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

Showbiz Kids

2020

Director, Producer, Writer

6.8
Directing Producing Writing

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

In Search of Darkness

2019

as Self

7.7
Acting

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

Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain

2018

Director, Producer, Writer

5.8
Directing Producing Writing

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

The Panama Papers

2018

Writer, Producer, Director

6.7
Writing Producing Directing

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

The Body

2018

as The Voice

6.3
Acting

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

Trump's Lobby

2017

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

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

Banking on Bitcoin

2016

as Himself

6.3
Acting

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

Relatively Free

2016

as Himself, Filmmaker (uncredited)

9.0
Acting

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

Relatively Free

2016

Director, Producer

9.0
Directing Producing

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

Quantum Is Calling

2016

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

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

7.2
Acting

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

7.2
Directing

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

Smosh: The Movie

2015

as Uncle Keith (uncredited)

4.4
Acting

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

Smosh: The Movie

2015

Director

4.4
Directing

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

Deep Web

2015

Director, Writer, Producer

6.8
Directing Writing Producing

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

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

as Self - Actor

7.2
Acting

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

Grand Piano

2013

as Assistant

5.9
Acting

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

Downloaded

Downloaded

2013

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Ben 10 Alien Swarm

2010

as Nanomech (voice)

6.1
Acting

Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.

Ben 10 Alien Swarm

Ben 10 Alien Swarm

2010

Director, Executive Producer

6.1
Directing Producing

Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.

Ben 10: Race Against Time

Ben 10: Race Against Time

2008

as Constantine Jacobs

5.8
Acting

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

Ben 10: Race Against Time

2008

Director, Executive Producer

5.8
Directing Producing

Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.

Fever

Fever

1999

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.

The Borrowers

The Borrowers

1997

as TV Gangster

6.0
Acting

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

Freaked

1993

as Ricky Coogan

6.1
Acting

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

Freaked

Freaked

1993

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

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

Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's

1993

as Stinx On Ice

Acting

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

Acting

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

Writing Directing

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

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991

as Bill / Granny Preston

6.3
Acting

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

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come

1990

as Howie

6.0
Acting

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

Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come

1990

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

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

10.0
Acting

Another low-budget horror documentary.

Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1

Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1

1990

as Self

Acting

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

Rosalie Goes Shopping

1989

as Schatzi Greenspace

5.7
Acting

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

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989

as Bill S. Preston

6.9
Acting

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

Impact Video Magazine

1989

4.0
Acting

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

Aisles of Doom

Aisles of Doom

1989

as Grendel T.W. Ulcerous

6.0
Acting

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

Aisles of Doom

1989

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

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

Haunted Summer

1988

as Dr. John William Polidori

5.0
Acting

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

Bar-B-Que Movie

1988

as Mexican Hitchhiker

3.4
Acting

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

Bar-B-Que Movie

1988

Director

3.4
Directing

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

The Lost Boys

1987

as Marko

7.1
Acting

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

Medium Rare

1987

as Timmy

5.0
Acting

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

Death Wish 3

1985

as Hermosa

6.2
Acting

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

Squeal of Death

1985

as Howie / Various Characters

6.7
Acting

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

Squeal of Death

1985

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

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

Gauguin the Savage

1980

as Clovis

Acting

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

The Idiot Box

N/A

as Himself

Acting

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

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 ...