Bill Weeden

Weeden was born on August 8, 1940 in Melbourne, Florida. He graduated from Yale University in 1962.[4]

Weeden is a veteran of genre film, starring in a number of Troma productions and other indie films, including playing the lead villain, Reginald Stuart, in Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990),[5] often considered to be part of The Toxic Avenger franchise universe. He was called the "Troma Olivier" by the New York Post for the performance.[6]

Weeden starred in Rachel Mason's rock-opera The Lives of Hamilton Fish (2013) as the serial killer Hamilton Fish, whose life is contrasted with the lawmaker with the same name.[7]

Weeden is the only actor in the slow cinema film Byron Jones.[8]

Weeden, as Assistant Principal Klemmer, was part of the ensemble in Mr. Student Body President that won a 2017 Streamy Award.

In 2020, Weeden starred as the protagonist, Dr. ZOOmis, alongside Kansas Bowling in the parody film Psycho Ape!.[9][10]

In 2021, Weeden received a Best Actor award[11] for his leading performance as a conflicted war veteran in the suspense-drama short film RedSin.[12][13]

Weeden is the composer of the Broadway show Hurry, Harry (opened 1972)[14] and composed additional material for the Broadway show I'm Solomon (opened 1968).[15]

Weeden played Hucklebee in the final cast of The Fantasticks,[16] which closed in 2002.[17][18] He was also featured in Try to Remember: The Fantasticks, a documentary examining the history of the show.[19]

He created two original musical revues with performing and writing partners David Finkle and Sally Fay (as Weeden, Finkle & Fay) for the New York production company Playwrights Horizons[20][21] and a children's musical, Babar's Birthday, for Theatreworks/USA.[22] The trio also toured as major market performers for a show organized by Fortune Magazine specifically to entertain and court potential advertisers,[23] even receiving front page coverage for the act in the Wall Street Journal.[24] The trio also wrote the musical Move It and It’s Yours, which has been performed numerous times in regional theater.[25]

The musical revue Into the Weeds: Selections from the Bill Weeden Songbook features Weeden's songs, including his various collaborations.[26][27]

Weeden has also performed in a number of off-Broadway and touring shows, including an East Village outdoor production of As You Like It, George Bataille's Bathrobe,[28] The Magnificent Ambersons,[29] an Atlantic City production of Little Shop of Horrors,[30] The Rocky Horror Show,[31] The Wizard of Oz,[32] and Damn Yankees.[33]

Weeden (with Finkle and Fay) contributed several songs to The No-Frills Revue,[34] the 1987 off-Broadway musical conceived by Martin Charnin.

Weeden co-produced the 1969 musical revue Free Fall[35] starring Bud Cort and Brandon Maggart.

Weeden has written comedy material, often with writing partner David Finkle, for Carol Channing,[36][37] Stiller & Meara,[38] Lily Tomlin (for her album And That's the Truth), Dick Shawn,[39][40] Madeline Kahn,[41][42] and others.

Weeden, Finkle & Fay's "Part of the Problem (The Inflation Song)" was released on 7" on MCA Records in 1980.[43][44]

Weeden has often collaborated with Upright Citizens Brigade.[45][46]

Weeden appeared with Finkle and Fay as regular commentators on the PBS series Adam Smith's Money World.[47]

He has narrated a number of audio books, often paired with his wife, Dolores McDougal.[48]

The song "One Big Team" was written and performed by Weeden for the 1988 New York Yankees' Old Timer's Day,[49] and in 2006 by Tony-winning Broadway star James Naughton on the YES Network's Yankees Magazine.[50]

Weeden joins other horror filmmakers and performers, such as Larry Fessenden and Amy Seimetz, voicing the horror "radio" series Tales from Beyond the Pale.[51]

• Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990) - Reginald Stuart
• Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000) - Abortion Doctor
• Never Again (2001) - Mr. Speedy
• The Lives of Hamilton Fish (2013) - Hamilton 'Albert' Fish
• Applesauce (2015) - Kate's Father
• The Ungovernable Force (2015) - Kevin
• Are We Not Cats (2016) - Diner Dad
• Shakespeare's Sh*tstorm (2020) - Singing Executive
• Psycho Ape (2020) - Dr. ZOOmis
• Ramekins: Ramekin II (2021) - Jared
• RedSin (2021) - Gregg Schulls/Jack Polaski

• Bill Weeden at IMDb