Biography

Mr. Wilson has 40 years experience in motion picture production in more than 30 countries on five continents. Wilson recently completed work on Angelina Jolie's "First They Killed My Father" in Cambodia and "The Outsider" for Netflix with Jared Leto in Japan. Previously he line-produced Hannibal Films "USS Indianapolis" directed by Mario van Peebles and starring Nick Cage. He produced the Australia/China co-production of "The Dragon Pearl". He was Executive Producer on Universal Pictures' "One True Thing" starring Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger and William Hurt, directed by Carl Franklin. He executive-produced four Tim Allen hits for Walt Disney Pictures including all three "The Santa Clause" films and "Jungle 2 Jungle". Wilson exec produced Disney's "Ice Princess" with Joan Cusack and Kim Cattrel and "Joe Somebody" for Fox. Wilson also co-produced "The Three Musketeers" with Charlie Sheen and Kiefer Sutherland, "A Far Off Place" with Reese Witherspoon, Tony Richardson's miniseries adaptation of "The Phantom Of The Opera" with Burt Lancaster, and the Russian portion of Walt Disney's 360-degree Theme Park Spectacle "From Time To Time". Mr. Wilson served as the Second Unit Director on "USS Indianapolis", "One True Thing", "Jungle 2 Jungle" and "A Far Off Place". Mr. Wilson supervised European production on Dan Curtis' ambitious 30-hour miniseries, "War And Remembrance" with Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour and Sir John Gielgud. He has also worked in various production capacities on "The Prisoner of Zenda" with Peter Sellers, "Hopscotch" with Walter Matthau, "Night Crossing" with John Hurt and Jane Alexander, "Firefox" with Clint Eastwood, the British miniseries "Wagner" with Richard Burton and Vanessa Redgrave, the ABC miniseries "Inside The Third Reich" with Rutger Hauer, and the original "The Neverending Story". Mr. Wilson served as European Production Consultant to Disney, coordinated the International Animator Competition throughout Eastern Europe and Russia and was the Director of European Production for Walt Disney Pictures and Television in Paris.
- IMDb mini biography by: William W. Wilson III <wwwilson3@earthlink.net>