
Bill Dawes
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Bill Dawes is an American actor and stand-up comic. He graduated cum laude with an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton University and holds an MFA In acting from NYU. While living in New York, Bill starred in 3 Broadway plays and over a dozen Off-Broadway plays as well as appearing in over 50 films and television shows. As a comic, he has toured nationally as well as internationally with the USO and considers the Hollywood Laugh Factory his home club. He is best known for "Mo," "Alaska Daily," "City on a Hill," "Damages," "Before the Sun Explodes," "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and "Encounter" with Riz Ahmed. Bill tours nationally and internationally as a headlining comic and considers the Laugh Factory his home club.
Known for
Credits

Adam (2009)
as Scottie

Operation Taco Gary's (2026)
as Elder #2

Encounter (2021)
as Kurt McKinley
Saving Manhattan (2005)
as Rollerblader

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)
as Murphy

Before the Sun Explodes (2016)
as Ken

Just for Kicks (2003)
as Rudy

Giving It Up (1999)
as Pick-Up Man

Too Tired to Die (1998)
as Dante (uncredited)

Way Off Broadway (2001)
as Ben DePaul

Beautiful Violence (2021)
as Chad

Woods Witch (2023)
as Yourgei Jegmeov

Asylum Seekers (2009)
as Alan

Mistletoe Massacre (—)
as Nolan
One Night (2007)
as Marc

How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009)
as Al

Fiona (1999)
as Harvey

Jacques (2023)
as Narrator

On the Q.T. (1999)
as Andre
EvenHand (2002)
as Officer Rob Francis

How to Kill Your Family On Christmas (—)
as Peter

Gladys Brown (2017)
as Silas Everett
Born Loser (2001)
as Carter

Shaman's Call (2021)
as Shaman

Pay to Die (—)
as Dominic

Christmas Couples Retreat (2023)
as Jacob




