Basic Information About Alex Winter
Category | Celebrities βΊ Directors |
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Professions | Film director, Actor, Screenwriter, Television Director, Film Producer |
Net worth | $4,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1965-07-17 (59 years old) |
Place of birth | London |
Nationality | United States of America |
Spouse | Ramsey Naito - (2010 - present)Β (1 child) Sonya Dawson - (1995 - ?)Β (divorced)Β (1 child) |
Gender | Male |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Alex Winter win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Alex Winter roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Bill & Ted Face the Music | Bill |
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Bill S. Preston |
The Lost Boys | Marko (as Alexander Winter) |
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Bill / Granny Preston |
The Borrowers | TV Gangster |
Freaked | Director |
Freaked | Writer |
Freaked | Ricky Coogan |
Death Wish 3 | Hermosa |
Into the Dark | The Voice 1 episode, 2018 |
Made in Hollywood | Self 2 episodes, 2015-2021 |
Bones | Monte Gold 1 episode, 2007 |
The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self 1 episode, 2020 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self 1 episode, 2020 |
Expedition Unknown | Self 1 episode, 2020 |
Kirby Buckets | Director |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2020 |
Bella and the Bulldogs | Director |
Blue Mountain State | Director |
Robot Chicken | Bill S. Preston, Esq. / ... 2 episodes, 2012-2019 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest 1 episode, 1993 |
Alex Winter's Quotes
- Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies.
- I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
- I get very driven by certain themes and ideas.
- Certain remakes are great. [John] Carpenter's The Thing (1982) is better than the original.
- My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.
Interesting Facts about Alex Winter
- When trying out for the parts of Bill and Ted, each actor was paired up with another. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter were paired up, Reeves trying out for the part of Bill while Winter trying out for the part of Ted. They were cast opposite what they tried out for.
- Father, with Sonya Dawson, of son Leroy, born in 1998.
- Attended film school at New York University with Tom Stern. They became good friends and have collaborated on several film projects.
- Graduated from Montclair Highschool in 1983. There he attended the school of performing arts.
- He studied Film at college in New York City and starred in a number of plays whilst still a student.
- Moved from London to St. Louis when he was 5. There his father, Ross, ran the Mid-American Dance Company, the Midwest's largest modern dance troupe, and his mother, Gregg Mayer, taught dance at Washington University. He has a brother named Stephen.
- Made his musical stage debut at age 10 in the St. Louis Opera production of "Oliver!" starring Vincent Price as Fagin. Alex played one of the urchins.
- Appeared in a couple of Broadway musical productions as a teenager. He was a replacement son Louis in Yul Brynner's revival of "The King and I" in 1978 and the following year played young John Darling in "Peter Pan" starring Sandy Duncan.
- His favorite character, that he played, was "Granny S. Preston" in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991).
- Born on the 10 year anniversary of the opening of Disneyland.
- Has starred in two movies that show the use of a payphone. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and Death Wish 3 (1985).
- His father, an Australian, had English, German, Cornish, and more distant Scottish, ancestry. His mother's family, from New York, is Ashkenazi Jewish.
- Along with Keanu Reeves, Hal Landon Jr. and Amy Stoch, he is one of only four actors to appear in all three "Bill & Ted" films: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020).
References & Fact Checks β
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Alex Winter and Spike Lee - Author: Danny Norton from Portland, OR, United States
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- Date taken: 6 August 2004, 14:33