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
Cast Credits

Operation Taco Gary's
Character: Elder
MOVIE • 2024

Christmas Couples Retreat
Character: Jacob
MOVIE • 2023

Woods Witch
Character: Yourgei Jegmeov
MOVIE • 2023

Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Character: Joshua
TV • 2023

Jacques
Character: Narrator
MOVIE • 2023

Alaska Daily
Character: Dwight Barry
TV • 2022

The Rookie: Feds
Character: Tom Lewis
TV • 2022

Mo
Character: Bob Robinson
TV • 2022

Mo
Character: Bob
TV • 2022

Beautiful Violence
Character: Chad
MOVIE • 2021

Encounter
Character: Kurt McKinley
MOVIE • 2021

Shaman's Call
Character: Shaman
MOVIE • 2021

NCIS: Hawaiʻi
Character: T.J. Shaw
TV • 2021

City on a Hill
Character: Rick Dunleavy
TV • 2019

The Other Two
Character: Billionaire
TV • 2019

S.W.A.T.
Character: Gabriel
TV • 2017

Manhunt
Character: Cadigan
TV • 2017

Gladys Brown
Character: Silas Everett
MOVIE • 2017

The Good Fight
Character: Jason Hardy
TV • 2017

Before the Sun Explodes
Character: Ken
MOVIE • 2016
Crew