William Rice

William Rice

Born: October 17, 1931
Died: January 23, 2006
in Vermont, USA
William Rice was a member of the avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many years. A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s.

Movies for William Rice...

One Last Thing...
Title: One Last Thing...
Character: Undertaker
Released: September 12, 2005
Type: Movie
Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan, with the help of his best friends, goes to New York to fulfill his dream.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Title: Coffee and Cigarettes
Character: Bill (segment "Champagne")
Released: March 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
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Jonas in the Desert
Title: Jonas in the Desert
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
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The Deflowering
Title: The Deflowering
Character: The Professor
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As a result, allergies are out of control and flowers are considered poisonous. Amidst this chaos, one couple decides to have a baby the old fashioned way and it causes an uproar.
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Last Supper
Title: Last Supper
Character: The Provider
Released: August 2, 1992
Type: Movie
In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look on as the guests obsess about identity, status, and success.
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Rain
Title: Rain
Character: Preacher
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Michael Keenan's film Rain takes us in from the main title to the payoff of its namesake. The heat and the throbbing music provide the indolent rhythm of the troubled life of Alex the cabdriver. The story is simple: New York as Hell. The noise, the sensory intrusions and the blistering heat don't stop those who can't leave from going about their business, forcing them into their own worlds sometimes to extreme degrees. Alex keeps moving, her taxi as metaphor, and waiting. Waiting is an active verb here. The sound effects, score, and chaotic images of New York captured by Robert LoScalzo come alive as the workings of Alex's interior anguish as well as the real exterior of the City.
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Thunder II
Title: Thunder II
Character: Thomas
Released: March 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of the brutal prison camp and takes bloody revenge. However he cannot sufficiently protect his pregnant wife.
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Her Name is Lisa
Title: Her Name is Lisa
Released: January 9, 1987
Type: Movie
A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide.
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Sleepwalk
Title: Sleepwalk
Character: Man At Elevator
Released: September 9, 1986
Type: Movie
When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life.
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Manhattan Love Suicides
Title: Manhattan Love Suicides
Character: Artist (segment "Stray Dogs")
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate You Now.
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Stray Dogs
Title: Stray Dogs
Character: Artist
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart.
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Decoder
Title: Decoder
Character: Jaeger
Released: February 19, 1984
Type: Movie
F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners, first in his own studio but later in the local "H-Burger" restaurant where the passive muzak appears to be wiping people's emotions.
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Doomed Love
Title: Doomed Love
Character: Andre
Released: October 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Depressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. While in the doctor's waiting room, he strikes up a friendship with Lois, the doctor's receptionist, and later with Lois' husband, Bob. Although the couple wants to help Andre recover from his depression, Andre finds himself unable to pull his life out of the past.
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Vortex
Title: Vortex
Character: Frederick Fields
Released: September 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real "corporate wars" and the manipulation of politicians.
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Subway Riders
Title: Subway Riders
Character: Mr. Gollstone
Released: April 2, 1981
Type: Movie
A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down.
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The Trap Door
Title: The Trap Door
Character: Fuller Brush Man
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and mauled by predatory bird-women. Finally, he seeks the help of a shrink (the legendary Jack Smith) who turns out to be the most demented of all.
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The Offenders
Title: The Offenders
Character: Dr. Moore
Released: January 2, 1980
Type: Movie
A punk savage satire about a kidnapping.
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Letters to Dad
Title: Letters to Dad
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jonestown over the relatively fresh faces of the parapunk art world; the film takes on a musical form - like a 20th-century ballad composed of subliminal behavior cues, advertising testimonials, and the text of the National Enquirer
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Final Reward
Title: Final Reward
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A fascinating drama-document on the punk period.
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G-Man
Title: G-Man
Character: Max Karl
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.