William Douglas Lansford

Date of Birth: July 13, 1922
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA
Mexican-American (Bilingual)
Los Angeles City College, AA degree
Los Angeles State: Studied Playwriting, American Literature

U.S. Marine Corps: 5 years (WWII) First Marine Prov. Brigade (Iceland). Second Marine Raider Battalion, Midway, Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Iwo Jima. Discharged Sergeant. Navy Commendation Medal, Purple Heart, two Presidential Citations. Corresponding Campaign Ribbons.

U.S. Army: 9 years. AFRS-TV. 11th Airborne Division. Commissioned. Company Commander. Served in Korea. PIO, IX Corps (Lt. Colonel's position) responsible for 3 divisions on the line, 3 in reserve, plus 3 Korean (ROK) divisions. Total responsibility: 200,000 troops. 8th Army military correspondent. 1st Lt. Bronze Star. 17 awards and decorations.

U.S.M.C. Boxing Team. Lumberjack. Dynamiter. Roadbuilding and Construction. Truck Driver. Judo Instructor. Newspaper Writer (And delivered 'em too). Dishwasher. Counterman/Bouncer (Specialty: small Chinese Chopsuey joints). Gardener. Advertising & PR. Assistant Plumber. Message Courier. And scores of other fascinating skills - too numerous to mention. (Departed most jobs by mutual agreement).

Writers Guild of America, West
Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association
Independent Features Project West
American Film Institute
New York Dramatists Guild
Authors Guild
Past President, Playwrights Theatre, Los Angeles
Selected to serve on NEH Advisory Panel, Washington, DC

Recipient NOSOTROS Golden Eagle Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Writing".

Nominated for "WHO'S WHO IN CALIFORNIA".

Selection Committee - Beverly Hills Theatre Guild.

Finalist - Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference.

Bill Lansford has worked with such stars as Anthony Quinn, Ricardo Montalban, Yul Brynner, Charles Bronson, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Fender, Raymond Burr, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorne Greene, Vikki Carr, Vera Miles, Lou Gossett, Kurt Russell, Dan Blocker, Sally Kellerman, Ned Beatty, Glenn Ford, Elizabeth Montgomery, Leonard Nimoy, A. Martinez, William Shatner, Mike Landon, Lana Turner, Celeste Holm, Erik Estrada, George Montgomery, Richard Yniguez, Betty White, Lloyd Bridges, John Forsythe, Sam Jaffe, Ed Begley, Parnell Roberts, Alfonso Arau and Patrick Stewart.

In Hollywood the CREDIT LIST is inescapable. Everybody's got one, just as everybody's got a script and a website. There's a persistent belief that if you don't have all three you're not real. So without further ado:

Adios, East Los (Eldorado Entertainment)
Fatal Punch (ITC)
Who Will Sing the Songs (Universal Studios)
The Mystic Flyer (Bonneville Prods.)
Squadron 201 (Columbia Pictures)
King Tiger (Columbia Pictures)
Villa Rides (Paramount)
Volvere (Gaylord/Televicine)
The Big Cube (Warner Bros.)
Sharon in Red (Warner Bros./Spain)
The Coasts of War (MPI)

Act of Violence* (CBS/Paramount)
The Deadly Tower (NBC/MGM)
Muscle Beach (ABC/Circle Films)
Satchel Paige (Paramount)
Tide (Spelling/Goldberg)
High Iron (NBC/Harmon Prod.)
Justin Morgan Had A Horse (Walt Disney)
The Intruders (Universal)

*Nominated: Writers Guild Award

Star Trek: The Next Generation
UCI/Homicide (Created Pilot)
*Matt Houston
*Strike Force
*CHiPs
*Fantasy Island
*Starsky & Hutch
*La Historia (Pilot/PBS)
*The Rookies
*Ironside
Buffalo Soldiers (Pilot Backup)
Culpepper
*High Chaparral
*Bonanza (Story Editor)
*The Virginian
SFX (Pilot Backup)
Matt Lincoln
Dan Harmon (Pilot)

*Multiple Episodes

Pancho Villa (Sherbourne Press)
Kennedy's Heroes (Pyramid Books)
The Fighting Marines (Pyramid Books)
Accent, U.S.A. (Scott, Foresman & Co.)
Courage in Korea (Little, Brown)

Tepeyac
He Knows The Way Home
A Christmas Carol (Musical Adaptation)
Burlesque

Over 300 short stories and articles including Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Argosy, True, Leatherneck, Stars and Stripes, Saga, etc...

Adios, East Los (Eldorado Entertainment)
Who Will Sing the Songs(Universal/Writer/Prod.)
The Deadly Tower (MOW/Assoc. Prod)
La Historia (13 Episodes/PBS/Writer/Prod.)

Adios, East Los (Theatrical Feature)
Volvere (I'll Return) (Span. Language Feature)
Two Blind Mice (Play)
Arsenic & Old Lace (Play)
Night Must Fall (Play)
A Christmas Carol (Musical Play)
Burlesque (Musical Play)
Tepeyac (Play)