
Bill Dawes
Acting
Biography
Bill Dawes is an American actor and stand-up comic. He graduated cum laude with an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton University and holds an MFA In acting from NYU. While living in New York, Bill starred in 3 Broadway plays and over a dozen Off-Broadway plays as well as appearing in over 50 films and television shows. As a comic, he has toured nationally as well as internationally with the USO and considers the Hollywood Laugh Factory his home club. He is best known for "Mo," "Alaska Daily," "City on a Hill," "Damages," "Before the Sun Explodes," "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and "Encounter" with Riz Ahmed. Bill tours nationally and internationally as a headlining comic and considers the Laugh Factory his home club.
Filmography
49 credits
Just 4 Kicks
Movie • 2003
Rudy

Encounter
Movie • 2021
Kurt McKinley

Beautiful Violence
Movie • 2021
Chad

EvenHand
Movie • 2002
Officer Rob Francis

Born Loser
Movie • 2001
Carter

Jacques
Movie • 2023
Narrator

One Night
Movie • 2007
Marc

Shaman's Call
Movie • 2021
Shaman

Woods Witch
Movie • 2023
Yourgei Jegmeov

Pay to Die
Movie
Dominic

Fiona
Movie • 1999
Harvey

Christmas Couples Retreat
Movie • 2023
Jacob

Operation Taco Gary's
Movie • 2026
Elder

Before the Sun Explodes
Movie • 2016
Ken

Asylum Seekers
Movie • 2009
Alan

Adam
Movie • 2009
Scottie

How to Seduce Difficult Women
Movie • 2009
Al

On the Q.T.
Movie • 1999
Andre

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Movie • 2009
Murphy

Mistletoe Massacre
Movie
Nolan

Saving Manhattan
Movie • 2005
Rollerblader

Gladys Brown
Movie • 2017
Silas Everett

Too Tired to Die
Movie • 1998
Dante (uncredited)

Giving It Up
Movie • 1999
Pick-Up Man

How to Kill Your Family On Christmas
Movie
Peter

Manhunt
TV • 2017
Cadigan

Law & Order
TV • 1990
Thomas Cooper

The Following
TV • 2013
Captain Robert Tubbs

The Other Two
TV • 2019
Billionaire

The Rookie: Feds
TV • 2022
Tom Lewis

Elementary
TV • 2012
Declan Boyle

Gotham Comedy Live
TV • 2012
Self

Mo
TV • 2022
Bob Robinson

Lawmen: Bass Reeves
TV • 2023
Joshua

Sex and the City
TV • 1998
Blonde Guy

City on a Hill
TV • 2019
Rick Dunleavy

Law & Order
TV • 1990
David Arkuss

The Beat
TV • 2000
Peter Johnson

NCIS
TV • 2003
Clayton Wills

Alaska Daily
TV • 2022
Dwight Barry

Rizzoli & Isles
TV • 2010
Ronan Finnegan

The Good Fight
TV • 2017
Jason Hardy

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Ben Crowe

NCIS: Hawaiʻi
TV • 2021
T.J. Shaw

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Alex Ryan

S.W.A.T.
TV • 2017
Gabriel

Mo
TV • 2022
Bob

Damages
TV • 2007
Customer

Damages
TV • 2007
Kevin Walker