
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

Encounter (2021)
as Kurt McKinley

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

Adam (2009)
as Scottie

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

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

Pay to Die (2026)
as Dominic

How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009)
as Al

On the Q.T. (1999)
as Andre

Giving It Up (1999)
as Pick-Up Man

Just for Kicks (2003)
as Rudy

Before the Sun Explodes (2016)
as Ken
One Night (2007)
as Marc
Saving Manhattan (2005)
as Rollerblader

Way Off Broadway (2001)
as Ben DePaul

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

Woods Witch (2023)
as Yourgei Jegmeov

Beautiful Violence (2021)
as Chad

Mistletoe Massacre (2026)
as Nolan

Fiona (1999)
as Harvey

Asylum Seekers (2009)
as Alan

Shaman's Call (2021)
as Shaman

Jacques (2023)
as Narrator
EvenHand (2002)
as Officer Rob Francis
Born Loser (2001)
as Carter

Christmas Couples Retreat (2023)
as Jacob

Gladys Brown (2017)
as Silas Everett





