Billy Higgins(I)
- Production Manager
- Producer
- Location Management
Billy Higgins is a veteran Chicago-based filmmaker who has worked on
dozens of features and television projects since 1979. He majored in
photo-journalism at the University of Kansas and spent the first five
years of his career as a still photographer before relocating to
Chicago to enter the entertainment industry.
He began his affiliation with the late John Hughes as a location manager on Hughes' directorial debut, the 1984 comedy hit, "Sixteen Candles" after similar duties on projects like "The Blues Brothers" and the pilot for NBC-TV's "Crime Story." Following those assignments, Higgins jumped up to a film production supervisor and unit production manager and reunited with Hughes on the Chicago segment of "She's Having A Baby" and the Midwest scenes for "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." His re-teamed with Hughes as producer of his 2001 drama "New Port South" (written by his his son James).
He continued working in Chicago as unit production manager on Costa-Gavras' "The Music Box" and "Betrayed," Ted Kotcheff's "Switching Channels" and "Folks!," the telefilm, "The Kid Who Loved Christmas" and the critically-acclaimed biopic, "Rudy." He served as Chicago production supervisor on Joel Schumacher's "Flatliners," associate producer/u.p.m. on the Showtime special, "Jay Leno's American Dream" and co-produced the basketball drama, "Heaven Is A Playground," starring Michael Warren and D.B. Sweeney.
More recently, Higgins produced "Simon Birch," based on the John Irving novel, and served as production manager on Stephen Frears' critically-acclaimed film, "Hi-Fidelity," and David Lynch's highly-praised Oscar-nominated drama, "The Straight Story." He also served as unit production manager on the sports drama, "The Game of Their Lives," reuniting with filmmaker David Anspaugh.
Higgins also served as line producer on a series of telefilms shot primarily in Canada, including "Night Sins, "When Secrets Kill," "The Prosecutors," "Buried Secrets" and "A Kidnapping in the Family."
He began his affiliation with the late John Hughes as a location manager on Hughes' directorial debut, the 1984 comedy hit, "Sixteen Candles" after similar duties on projects like "The Blues Brothers" and the pilot for NBC-TV's "Crime Story." Following those assignments, Higgins jumped up to a film production supervisor and unit production manager and reunited with Hughes on the Chicago segment of "She's Having A Baby" and the Midwest scenes for "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." His re-teamed with Hughes as producer of his 2001 drama "New Port South" (written by his his son James).
He continued working in Chicago as unit production manager on Costa-Gavras' "The Music Box" and "Betrayed," Ted Kotcheff's "Switching Channels" and "Folks!," the telefilm, "The Kid Who Loved Christmas" and the critically-acclaimed biopic, "Rudy." He served as Chicago production supervisor on Joel Schumacher's "Flatliners," associate producer/u.p.m. on the Showtime special, "Jay Leno's American Dream" and co-produced the basketball drama, "Heaven Is A Playground," starring Michael Warren and D.B. Sweeney.
More recently, Higgins produced "Simon Birch," based on the John Irving novel, and served as production manager on Stephen Frears' critically-acclaimed film, "Hi-Fidelity," and David Lynch's highly-praised Oscar-nominated drama, "The Straight Story." He also served as unit production manager on the sports drama, "The Game of Their Lives," reuniting with filmmaker David Anspaugh.
Higgins also served as line producer on a series of telefilms shot primarily in Canada, including "Night Sins, "When Secrets Kill," "The Prosecutors," "Buried Secrets" and "A Kidnapping in the Family."
