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William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and director. He got his start as an actor, earning acclaim (and an Independent Spirit Award nomination) for his performance in ''Film/RubyInParadise''. In the late 90s, he played his two most high-profile roles: radio operator Tim "Beltzer" Lewis in the 1996 blockbuster ''Film/{{Twister}}'' and pianist Nick Nightingale in ''Film/EyesWideShut'', the swan song of Creator/StanleyKubrick.

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William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and director.filmmaker. He got his start as an actor, earning acclaim (and an Independent Spirit Award nomination) for his performance in ''Film/RubyInParadise''. In the late 90s, he played his two most high-profile roles: radio operator Tim "Beltzer" Lewis in the 1996 blockbuster ''Film/{{Twister}}'' and pianist Nick Nightingale in ''Film/EyesWideShut'', the swan song of Creator/StanleyKubrick.

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...and then, for fifteen years, nothing. His name was attached to a number of projects, including an adaptation of ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' and a political thriller to be written with Joan Didion, but none of them ever got off the ground. After raising a family for fifteen years, however, Field returned with ''Film/{{Tar}}'', an acclaimed psychological drama starring Creator/CateBlanchett as a (fictional) living legend of the modern classical world.

[[HeAlsoDid Aside from his film career]], Field was a batboy for a minor league baseball team called the Portland Mavericks, where he developed the idea for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_League_Chew Big League Chew]] alongside pitching coach Rob Nelson.

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...and then, for fifteen sixteen years, nothing. His name was attached to a number of projects, including an adaptation of ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' and a political thriller to be written with Joan Didion, but none of them ever got off the ground. After raising a family for fifteen years, however, Field returned with ''Film/{{Tar}}'', an acclaimed psychological drama starring Creator/CateBlanchett as a (fictional) living legend of the modern classical world.

[[HeAlsoDid Aside from his film career]], Field was a batboy for a minor league baseball team called the Portland Mavericks, where he developed the idea for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_League_Chew Big League Chew]] alongside pitching coach Rob Nelson.Nelson.

! Filmography (as a director)
* ''Film/InTheBedroom'' (2001)
* ''Film/LittleChildren'' (2006)
* ''Film/{{Tar}}'' (2022)
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...and then, for fifteen years, nothing. His name was attached to a number of projects, including an adaptation of ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' and a political thriller to be written with Creator/JoanDidion, but none of them ever got off the ground. After raising a family for fifteen years, however, Field returned with ''Film/{{Tar}}'', an acclaimed psychological drama starring Creator/CateBlanchett as a (fictional) living legend of the modern classical world.

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...and then, for fifteen years, nothing. His name was attached to a number of projects, including an adaptation of ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' and a political thriller to be written with Creator/JoanDidion, Joan Didion, but none of them ever got off the ground. After raising a family for fifteen years, however, Field returned with ''Film/{{Tar}}'', an acclaimed psychological drama starring Creator/CateBlanchett as a (fictional) living legend of the modern classical world.world.

[[HeAlsoDid Aside from his film career]], Field was a batboy for a minor league baseball team called the Portland Mavericks, where he developed the idea for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_League_Chew Big League Chew]] alongside pitching coach Rob Nelson.

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->''"The cliché of filmmaking is that there’s nothing particularly glamorous or healthy about it. There has to be a reason you’re getting up in the middle of the night, you’re driving everyone that works with you absolutely crazy: You’re obsessed with this thing, you know what it looks like, and it can’t be anything but that. It takes on a life-and-death situation for you because you’ve forged that sword and you’ll die on that sword, and you’re deluded enough to believe that everyone else should die on that sword with you."''

William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and director. He got his start as an actor, earning acclaim (and an Independent Spirit Award nomination) for his performance in ''Film/RubyInParadise''. In the late 90s, he played his two most high-profile roles: radio operator Tim "Beltzer" Lewis in the 1996 blockbuster ''Film/{{Twister}}'' and pianist Nick Nightingale in ''Film/EyesWideShut'', the swan song of Creator/StanleyKubrick.

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->''"The cliché of filmmaking is that there’s nothing particularly glamorous or healthy about it. There has to be a reason you’re getting up in the middle of the night, you’re driving everyone that works with you absolutely crazy: You’re obsessed with this thing, you know what it looks like, and it can’t be anything but that. crazy...It takes on a life-and-death situation for you because you’ve forged that sword and you’ll die on that sword, and you’re deluded enough to believe that everyone else should die on that sword with you."''

William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and director. He got his start as an actor, earning acclaim (and an Independent Spirit Award nomination) for his performance in ''Film/RubyInParadise''. In the late 90s, he played his two most high-profile roles: radio operator Tim "Beltzer" Lewis in the 1996 blockbuster ''Film/{{Twister}}'' and pianist Nick Nightingale in ''Film/EyesWideShut'', the swan song of Creator/StanleyKubrick.Creator/StanleyKubrick.

Starting in 2001, however, Field stopped acting and went behind the camera for his feature debut, ''Film/InTheBedroom'', an adaptation of the short story "Killings" by Andre Dubus. It earned rave reviews after its Sundance premiere, and eventually garnered five Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture. Five years later, Field followed it up with ''Film/LittleChildren'', an adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel, which received similar acclaim and three Oscar nominations. Field had secured his place as one of the hottest new talents in independent cinema...

...and then, for fifteen years, nothing. His name was attached to a number of projects, including an adaptation of ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' and a political thriller to be written with Creator/JoanDidion, but none of them ever got off the ground. After raising a family for fifteen years, however, Field returned with ''Film/{{Tar}}'', an acclaimed psychological drama starring Creator/CateBlanchett as a (fictional) living legend of the modern classical world.
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->''"The cliché of filmmaking is that there’s nothing particularly glamorous or healthy about it. There has to be a reason you’re getting up in the middle of the night, you’re driving everyone that works with you absolutely crazy: You’re obsessed with this thing, you know what it looks like, and it can’t be anything but that. It takes on a life-and-death situation for you because you’ve forged that sword and you’ll die on that sword, and you’re deluded enough to believe that everyone else should die on that sword with you."''

William Todd Field (born February 24, 1964) is an American actor and director. He got his start as an actor, earning acclaim (and an Independent Spirit Award nomination) for his performance in ''Film/RubyInParadise''. In the late 90s, he played his two most high-profile roles: radio operator Tim "Beltzer" Lewis in the 1996 blockbuster ''Film/{{Twister}}'' and pianist Nick Nightingale in ''Film/EyesWideShut'', the swan song of Creator/StanleyKubrick.

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