Bill Blair

Bill is the Guinness World record holder in the category most special effect makeup characters portrayed in a career the new record number set May 6 2011 is 202 Born and raised in Kent Ohio Bill graduated Kent State University in 1977 with a degree in Telecommunications But during college Bill realized that he wanted something else He embarked on a music career and in the early 1980s he toured as the leader of a band called Expression In 1982 after recovering from a serious injury he moved to Chicago and shifted to a career in entertainment His first bitpart in a movie came in 1982 in an American Playhouse film titled The Killing Floor By the following summer Bill was landing featured bitparts and standin work on several films He got his first speaking role in 1984 in the TV movie The Impostor Later 1984 Dallas TX Over the next five years he kept busy with print ads and industrial shows and played his first alien character He portrayed Mr Spock in an industrial film at the Dallas Convention Center for the Oracle Software Company January 1990 Los Angeles Florida 1992 job entertaining at the Busch Gardens water park called Adventure Land January 1993 Los Angeles His first experience as an alien on television was in Alien Nation It started when he met makeup designer Richard Snell while filming Demolition Man This led Bill to his first work on the TV movies of Alien Nation Since then he has become one of those few elite actors that seem to specialize in playing aliens monsters and other various creatures from other worlds and of this world long ago It was from there that he found himself working on the hit series Babylon 5 and shortly thereafter on Star TrekDeep Space Nine 1998 Bill worked on the season premiere episode of Sliders and more in 1999 Since then Bill has worked on many TV series including Star Trek Voyager Enterprise The XFiles The Invisible Man Drew Carey The District Crossing Jordan King of Queens Will and Grace Yes Dear Friends Desperate Housewives Criminal Minds and as a regular on The Division and the HBO Series Carnivale Saving Grace Justified Raising Hope iCarly The Defenders How I Met Your Mother NCIS Mad Men Modern Family Mistresses 2 Broke Girls and many more Bill has appeared in Blades of Glory The Artist The Muppets Nightcrawler Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 ARGO and more In print Bill was a featured zombie in the book The Brain Eaters Bible released in 2011 As one of a special group of actors that has worked extensively on scifi and fantasyhorror shows Bill has many behindthescenes stories to share about what it took to become this extraordinary type of actor Additionally Bill has written a book titled The Professionals Talent Handbook The Guide to Getting Started and he has appeared on the pages of TV Guide July 5 1997 and in the August 1998 issue of Galactic Alliance Interviews with Bill can be found in such publications as the International Star Trek Magazine Explorer Pen Quill Autograph Times TV Zone and the New York Post