- Born
- Birth nameWilliam Hardy Russ IV
- Nicknames
- Rusty
- Billy
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Handsome 6-foot-1 European-American businessman, entrepreneur, actor and television director. William Russ is from Portsmouth, Virginia. He is known for his work on Boy Meets World (1993), Wiseguy (1987) and Wanted: Dead or Alive (1986). He is married to Clare Wren. They have two children. In an interview he mentioned I have been a welder, a cab driver, a waiter, a cook, dishwasher and a garbage truck worker.
- IMDb mini biography by: White kings and queens
- SpouseClare Wren(? - present) (2 children)
- Often plays stern fathers or violent criminals
- Wore the same brown leather jacket with a #13 patch on the front in The Right Stuff (1983), in Hunter (1984) as the troubled Vietnam vet in the Fire Man episode and as the Roger LoCocco character in Wiseguy (1987).
- Trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse, he appeared on stage with Al Pacino in "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and Holly Hunter in "Ghost on Fire."
- Started filming Life as a House (2001) playing Officer Kurt Walker, but was injured in a motorbike crash and replaced by Scott Bakula.
- A self-affirmed "Navy brat" who graduated from the University of Michigan, where he studied drama.
- Enjoys high-wind windsurfing.
- [about his "Wiseguy" (1987) character] Fifteen years later, people still say to me, "How's it going, buckwheat?".
- [on playing bad guy roles] In L.A., when you start out you work in TV and on TV there's the good guy who's usually someone like Don Johnson (I) and then there's the bad guy. On a series all year there is only one good guy, but every week there's a different bad guy. If you can't play a bad guy, you won't work very much.
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