Bill Camp

William "Bill" Camp is an American actor. He is best known for playing detective Dennis Box in the HBO television mini-series The Night Of.

Biography

Camp has been largely active in theatre,^[1][2] but has taken on character roles in both film and television.

Among his works on Broadway are Heartbreak House (2006), Death of a Salesman (2012) and The Crucible (2016).

In 2002, he left acting and temporarily changed professions (as a cook and mechanic),^[3] only to return two years later in Homebody/Kabul, for which he won an Obie Award (Off-Broadway Theater Awards).

He appeared in the second season of the TV series Boardwalk Empire as the hunter Glenmore.

He married Elizabeth Marvel on September 4, 2004. They have one son.

Theater credits (Broadway)

• Jackie, November 1997 – March 1998
• Heartbreak House, October – December 2006
• Coram Boy, May 2007
• Death of a Salesman, March – June 2012
• The Crucible as Reverend John Hale at the Walter Kerr Theatre, March – July 2016^[4]

Partial filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
1990	Reversal of Fortune	Bill	Barbet Schroeder
1997	In & Out	Bachelor Party Guest	Frank Oz
1998	Rounders	Eisenberg	John Dahl
2007	Reservation Road	Desk Cop	Terry George
2009	Public Enemies	Frank Nitti	Michael Mann
2010	Tamara Drewe	Glen McGreavey	Stephen Frears
2012	Lawless	Sheriff Hodges	John Hillcoat
2012	Compliance	Van	Craig Zobel
2012	Lincoln	Mr. Jolly	Steven Spielberg
2013	12 Years a Slave	Radburn	Steve McQueen
2014	Love & Mercy	Murry Wilson	Bill Pohlad
2014	Birdman	Crazy Man	Alejandro G. Inarritu
2015	Aloha	Bob Largent	Cameron Crowe
2015	Black Mass	John Callahan	Scott Cooper
2016	Midnight Special	Doak	Jeff Nichols
2016	Loving	Frank Beazley	Jeff Nichols
2016	Jason Bourne	Malcolm Smith	Paul Greengrass
2016	Gold	Hollis Dresher	Stephen Gaghan	Post-production
2017	Hostiles		Scott Cooper	In post-production
2017	The Killing of a Sacred Deer		Yorgos Lanthimos	In post-production
2017	Crown Heights	William Robedee	Matt Ruskin	Post-production
2017	Woman Walks Ahead		Susanna White	In post-production
2017	Molly's Game		Aaron Sorkin	Filming

Television

• Law & Order (1999–2004)
• Boardwalk Empire (2011)
• Damages (2012)
• The Leftovers (2015)
• The Night Of (2016)

References

1. Simonson, Robert (December 16, 2007). "One Man's Method for Better Acting: Just Stop Doing It". The New York Times.
2. Walat, Kathryn (March 2009). "He'll See You in Hell" (PDF). American Theatre. lajollaplayhouse.org. pp. 40–42, 71–72.
3. Soloski, Alexis (November 3, 2010). "Bill Camp and Dostoyevsky Go Underground". The Village Voice.
4. "Review: In Arthur Miller's Crucible, First They Came for the Witches" by Ben Brantley, The New York Times, March 31, 2016

External links

• Bill Camp at the Internet Broadway Database
  
• Bill Camp at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Bill Camp at the Internet Movie Database