Bill Thorpe

Actor's contact info (email and phone or agent):

Phone 617-426-8806
Email info@sharpley-and-taylor.com

Actor's web site:

http://www.sharpley-and-taylor.com/billthorpe/

Actor's age range:

51-55, 56-60

Actor's Unions:

SAG-AFTRA, AEA

Actor's PHYSICAL TRAITS (use format on the "Before Applying" page)

PHYSICAL TRAITS:
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Height: 6' 1"
Eyes: Hazel
Hair length: Short
Hair color: Brown
Suit: 46L
Inseam: 34
Waist: 35

Actor's Performance Skills:

Boating - engine, Boating - sail, Bongos, Bowling, Canoeing, Cycling, Driving - car, Driving - stick shift-standard, Equestrian - general, Guitar - 6 string, Ice Skating, In-line Skating, Kayaker, Piano, Rollerblading, Sailing, Scuba Diving, Singer - Baritone, Singer - Bass, Snorkeling, Swimming - general ability, Swimming - back stroke, Swimming - breast stroke, Swimming - freestyle, Weight Lifting, Autoharp

Recent acting experience (use the format on the Before Applying page):

FILM & TV:
"Clear History" - Role: The Construction Worker (dialogue with Larry David) - 2014 release - Dir. Greg Mottola (HBO)
"In Your Eyes" - Role: Stan - 2012 - Dir. Brin Hill
"R.I.P.D." - Role: Cemetery Worker - 2013 release - Dir. Robert Schwentke
"Whaling City" - Role: Driscoll - 2011 - Dir. Jay Burke
"Slip & Fall" - Role: Court Bailiff - 2011 - Dir. Marc Colucci
"Edge of Darkness" - Role: Watch Sergeant (dialogue with Mel Gibson) - Dir. Martin Campbell
"The Box" - Role: NASA Administrator - Dir. Richard Kelly
"Mysic River" - Role: Neighbor at Barricade (dialogue with Sean Penn) - Dir. Clint Eastwood
"Leaving Scars - Role: Hollywood Producer - Dir. Brad Jacques
"The Darien Gap" - Role: Personnel Director - Dir. Brad Anderson
"Brotherhood" (Showtime Network) - Role: Capt. Miller - Dir. Nick Gomez
"Damrell's Fire" (documentary) - Role: Nathaniel Bradlee - Dir. Bruce Twickler

NATIONAL & WORLD TV COMMERCIALS (principal roles):
Mastercard - Role: Sports Fan - Dir. Errol Morris / McCann-Erickson, NY, NY
Quick & Reilly Investments (Fleet Bank) - Role: Dad - Dir. James Gartner / Hill Holliday
H&R Block - Role: Investor - Picture Park Productions
The Mormon Church - Role: Father - Bonneville Productions, Salt Lake City
Stoneyfield Farm Yoghurt - Role: Farmer - Picture Park Productions
The History Channel - Role: Roman torch bearer - Kilowatt Films
American Movie Classics - Role: Movie Character - Big Brother Productions

REGIONAL TV COMMERCIALS (principal roles): Hood Ice Cream - Citizens Energy - Homefield Telecom - New Hampshire State Lottery - W.B. Mason Company (twice) - Masachusetts Department of Health - Boston Red Sox - Boston Bulldogs Pro Soccer - Blue Cross Blue Shield - Massachusetts State Lottery - Beverly Hospital - The Boston Foundation - Interstate Transmission - Union Hospital / Lahey Clinic - Foy-Poloquin Insurance - Newport Jai Alai - South Shore Hospital - Boston Public Library - Heywood Hospital

THEATER:
"Sound of Music" - Role: Von Trapp - Carousel Dinner Theater, Akron OH
"Meet Me in Saint Louis" - Role: Father - Merry-Go-Round Theater, Auburn NY
"Showboat" - Role: Jim (also played piano onstage) - Northshore Music Theater, Beverly MA
"Kiss Me Kate" - Role: Petruccio - Ocean City Pops Orchestra, New Jersey
"Sweeney Todd" - Role" Jonas Fogg - Northshore Music Theater, Beverly MA
"Lady Audley's Secret" - Role: onstage piano player - Trinity Square Repertory Company, Providence RI

SINGING
Toured the U.S. and China for two decades singing the music of Cole Porter through American Artists Managment, NY, and the Cole Porter Trusts, NY. Was soloist on CBS Television Network tribute to Cole Porter and for the U.S. Post Office release of the Cole Porter commemorative first class postage stamp. Also guest soloist with numerous eastcoast orchestras. Solo performances in Cologne, the Rhineland, and Westerwald, Germany, 2012.

OPERA
"The Bartered Bride" (Smetana) - Role: Micha - Opera Boston
"La Fanciulla del West" (Puccini) - Role: Billy Jackrabbit - Opera Boston
"Lucrezia Borgia" (Donizetti) - Role: Astolpho - Opera Boston
"Capriccio" (Strauss) - Role: La Roche - Four-S Festival
"The Impressario" (Mozart) - Role: Herr Bluff - Boston Lyric Opera
"The Beggar's Opera" (John Gay) - Role: Lockit - Opera Boston

Other work, hobbies, charities, etc. in which this actor is involved:

Active professional classical musician and classical music publisher

VOICE ARTISTS ONLY [you must have a professinal demo to upload]: llustrative 1-word descriptions for this actor's voice (e.g. conversational, announcer, warm, etc.):

ACCENTS: As a professional classical singer (bass-baritone), I regularly sing in German, French, Italian, and Spanish and can apply pronunciation rules for these languages to English to create accurate foreign accents.