Alex Winter

Alex Winter

Born: July 17, 1965
in London, England, UK
Alexander Ross "Alex" Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English-born American actor, film director, and film writer, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston Esq. in the three films in the Bill & Ted series (1989-2020). He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 cult classic The Lost Boys and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film Freaked.

Movies for Alex Winter...

The Smurfs Musical
Title: The Smurfs Musical
Character: (voice)
Released: February 12, 2025
Type: Movie
An animated musical film focused on Peyo's iconic creations.
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Destroy All Neighbors
Title: Destroy All Neighbors
Character: Vlad / Public Defender
Released: April 26, 2024
Type: Movie
William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, William inadvertently decapitates him. But, while attempting to cover up one murder, William’s accidental reign of terror causes victims to pile up and become undead corpses who torment and create more bloody detours on his road to prog-rock Valhalla.
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Title: Full Circle
Character: Widmer
Released: July 13, 2023
Type: TV
An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.
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The YouTube Effect
Title: The YouTube Effect
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 2023
Type: Movie
YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion dollars. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destroy not only the platform, but the entire Internet.
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In Search of Darkness: Part III
Title: In Search of Darkness: Part III
Character: Self
Released: November 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that populated the bottom shelves at the video rental store. Imaginative, gory, experimental—but always entertaining—these hidden gems are ripe for rediscovery.
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Blue's Big City Adventure
Title: Blue's Big City Adventure
Character: Cab Driver
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
When Josh gets the opportunity of a lifetime to audition for Rainbow Puppy’s Broadway musical, Josh and Blue skidoo to NYC for the very first time where they meet new friends and discover the magic of music, dance, and following one’s dreams.
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Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! A Look Back at a Most
Title: Time Flies When You Are Having Fun! A Look Back at a Most "Excellent Adventure"
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2022
Type: Movie
A look back on the making of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with the creators of the film, featuring Interviews With Actors Alex Winter And Keanu Reeves, Producer Scott Kroopf, Composer David Newman, Supporting Actors Dan Shor, Rod Loomis, Clifford David, Al Leong, Terry Camilleri, And Jane Wiedlin, Special Make-Up Effects Designer Kevin Yagher And More!
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Title: George Carlin's American Dream
Character: Self
Released: May 20, 2022
Type: TV
This two-part documentary chronicles the life and work of the legendary comedian, tracking George Carlin’s rise to fame and opens an intimate window into Carlin’s personal life, including his childhood in New York City, his long struggle with drugs that took its toll on his health, his brushes with the law, his loving relationship with Brenda, his wife of 36 years, and his second marriage to Sally Wade. Intimate interviews with Carlin and Brenda’s daughter, Kelly Carlin, offer unique insight into her family’s story and her parents enduring love and partnership.
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In Search of Tomorrow
Title: In Search of Tomorrow
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: February 19, 2022
Type: Movie
A nostalgic journey through ’80s Sci-Fi-films, exploring their impact and relevance today, told by the artist who made them and by those who were inspired to turn their visions into reality.
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This Is GWAR
Title: This Is GWAR
Character: Self
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
The powerful story of the most iconic heavy metal/art collective/monster band in the universe, as told by the humans who have fought to keep it alive for over thirty years. The feature documentary includes interviews with the band members, both past and present, as well as other artists including Weird Al Yankovic, Thomas Lennnon, Alex Winter, Bam Margera, and Ethan Embry, including never before seen footage of legendary GWAR frontman Dave Brockie.
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In Search of Darkness: Part II
Title: In Search of Darkness: Part II
Character: Self
Released: October 6, 2020
Type: Movie
The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Search of Darkness, adding 15 new interviewees and 40+ returning favorites for the biggest and most comprehensive ‘80s Horror documentary cast ever assembled.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
Title: Bill & Ted Face the Music
Character: Bill S. Preston
Released: August 27, 2020
Type: Movie
Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends — to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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Showbiz Kids
Title: Showbiz Kids
Character: Self
Released: July 14, 2020
Type: Movie
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.
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In Search of Darkness
Title: In Search of Darkness
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2019
Type: Movie
An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.
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Title: Eli Roth's History of Horror
Released: October 14, 2018
Type: TV
An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.
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The Body
Title: The Body
Character: The Voice
Released: September 21, 2018
Type: Movie
In Los Angeles, on Halloween night, a hitman tries to transport a corpse in plain sight, but people he stumbles upon on the street, believing that his sophisticated appearance is a magnificent disguise, constantly stand in his way to congratulate him.
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Title: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 2018
Type: TV
Explore the evolution of sci-fi from its origins as a small genre with a cult following to the blockbuster pop-cultural phenomenon we know today. In each episode, James Cameron introduces one of the “Big Questions” that humankind has contemplated throughout the ages and reaches back into sci-fi’s past to better understand how our favorite films, TV shows, books, and video games were born.
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Banking on Bitcoin
Title: Banking on Bitcoin
Character: Himself
Released: December 30, 2016
Type: Movie
Not since the invention of the Internet has there been such a disruptive technology as Bitcoin. Bitcoin's early pioneers sought to blur the lines of sovereignty and the financial status quo. After years of underground development Bitcoin grabbed the attention of a curious public, and the ire of the regulators the technology had subverted. After landmark arrests of prominent cyber criminals Bitcoin faces its most severe adversary yet, the very banks it was built to destroy.
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Relatively Free
Title: Relatively Free
Character: Himself, Filmmaker (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
A short film following the release of journalist and activist Barrett Brown from prison, and his drive across Texas to a halfway house. 'Relatively Free' is an examination of Brown's return to a very different world, post the election.
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Anyone Can Quantum
Title: Anyone Can Quantum
Character: Cameo
Released: January 27, 2016
Type: Movie
The game is real and the stakes are high as the future of humanity hangs in the balance. Can Paul Rudd, an actor, beat Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest minds of our generation, in a game of chess that will determine the future of humanity? Most likely not. Unless...
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Smosh: The Movie
Title: Smosh: The Movie
Character: Uncle Keith (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 2015
Type: Movie
An embarrassing video of Anthony surfaces online right before his fifth high school reunion. The Smosh dudes then race to pull down the clip before it blows Anthony's chances of reconnecting with his teen crush Anna.
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Title: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Character: Self - Actor
Released: October 6, 2014
Type: Movie
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.
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Title: The Real History of Science Fiction
Character: Himself
Released: April 19, 2014
Type: TV
The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction, told through its impact on cinema, television and literature, with the help of filmmakers, writers, actors, and graphic artists. Each episode will explore one of the enduring themes of science fiction: time travel; the exploration of space; robots and artificial intelligence; and aliens.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Released: February 17, 2014
Type: TV
After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.
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Grand Piano
Title: Grand Piano
Character: Assistant
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet.
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Ben 10 Alien Swarm
Title: Ben 10 Alien Swarm
Character: Nanomech (voice)
Released: November 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Ben and a mysterious girl from his past must prevent an alien threat from destroying the world.
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Ben 10: Race Against Time
Title: Ben 10: Race Against Time
Character: Constantine Jacobs
Released: February 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.
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Title: Bones
Character: Monte Gold
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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The Borrowers
Title: The Borrowers
Character: TV Gangster
Released: December 5, 1997
Type: Movie
The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer Ocious P. Potter steals the will granting title to the house, which he plans to demolish in order to build apartments. The Lenders are forced to move, and the Clocks face the risk of being exposed to the normal-sized world.
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Title: Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 13, 1993
Type: TV
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. The second incarnation of NBC's Late Night franchise, O'Brien's debuted in 1993 after David Letterman, who hosted the first incarnation of Late Night, moved to CBS to host Late Show opposite The Tonight Show. In 2004, as part of a deal to secure a new contract, NBC announced that O'Brien would leave Late Night in 2009 to succeed Jay Leno as the host of The Tonight Show. Jimmy Fallon began hosting his version of Late Night on March 2, 2009.
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Freaked
Title: Freaked
Character: Ricky Coogan
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
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Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
Title: Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90's
Character: Stinx On Ice
Released: September 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Newswoman Fay Sommerfield takes a morally outraged look at excessive violence, bad language and sacrilege that pass for entertainment in the early 90s. She illustrates this with clips from (fake) current hit films and music videos.
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Meals on Wheels
Title: Meals on Wheels
Character: Dweeb
Released: December 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Made for Playboy's "Inside Out" TV show, the short follows an eccentric dweeb who, after noticing an attractive woman sucking on a popsicle, tries following her. However tragedy keeps befalling him at every turn, leading to many wacky situations as he pursues the lady.
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Title: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Character: Bill S. Preston/ Granny Preston / Evil Bill
Released: July 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
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Title: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
Character: Bill S. Preston (voice)
Released: September 15, 1990
Type: TV
The misadventures of two time-travelling slackers as they travel into the distant past and future.
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Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come
Title: Howie Meets the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come
Character: Howie
Released: April 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Made for CBS' "Save The Planet" Earth Day Special. Howie, having been confronted about his polluting ways, is visited later that night in his dreams by the Ghost of Environmental Disasters Yet to Come. He is then taken through time to see what havoc man wrought upon the world.
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Gorgon Video Magazine Vol. 2
Title: Gorgon Video Magazine Vol. 2
Character: Self
Released: April 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Another low-budget horror documentary.
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Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1
Title: Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
SLAMMIN!... Rap's #1 video magazine. Here are the acts you're going to be meetin' in the premiere episode of this 1990 Video VHS Magazine produced by Night Flight creator Stuart S. Shapiro. Waking up in the morning with Big Daddy Kane...KANE style, a spin in Ice T.'s Ferrari and a tour of his home with the Rhyme Syndicate posse, MC Hammer contributes his def videos, Queen Latifah and her dancers 007 and 99 allow Slammin' into their "Queendom" to drop science on women in the rap industry. Chuck D, KRS-One, Chris Rock and Steve White take a comic's look at rap movies. Host Alex Winter races around town, trying to hook up with Slammin's rap acts in this premiere issue.
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Rosalie Goes Shopping
Title: Rosalie Goes Shopping
Character: Schatzi Greenspace
Released: November 9, 1989
Type: Movie
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Title: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Character: Bill S. Preston
Released: February 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
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Impact Video Magazine
Title: Impact Video Magazine
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Counter-culture video magazine created by Stuart Shapiro, featuring Bill Hicks, Robert Williams, Public Enemy, Butthole Surfers, Survival Research Labs, and much more! Hosted by Alex Winter!
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Aisles of Doom
Title: Aisles of Doom
Character: Grendel T.W. Ulcerous
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
In a town, there's a shop called the Plaza Discount Center, featuring toys of all kinds. It should be a place children love, and it would be save for its shopkeeper, Grendel T.W. Ulcerous. He's evil, but only the children know it, and no one listens to them. We watch what Grendel does to a couple of them. Then, one day, a stranger in a yellow rain slicker comes to town. A confrontation follows. Is it the end of Grendel?
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Haunted Summer
Title: Haunted Summer
Character: Dr. John William Polidori
Released: December 16, 1988
Type: Movie
Authors Lord Byron, Mary Shelley (née Godwin) and Percy Shelley get together for some philosophical discussions, but the situation soon deteriorates into mind games, drugs, and sex. It is a fictionalization of the summer that Lord Byron and the Shelleys, together with Lord Byron's ex-lover Claire Clairmont and his Doctor John Polidori, spent in the isolated Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. It is there they devise a contest to adduce the best horror story to kill the dullness of summer. It is also there that one of the world's most famous books was given life—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Bar-B-Que Movie
Title: Bar-B-Que Movie
Character: Mexican Hitchhiker
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In this twisted spoof of "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," a vacationing family encounters a communal group of cannibalistic misfits, played by legendary punk band Butthole Surfers. After drinking a hallucinogenic beverage, and eating part of his own son, the father witnesses a live performance by the band.
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The Lost Boys
Title: The Lost Boys
Character: Marko
Released: July 31, 1987
Type: Movie
When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
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Medium Rare
Title: Medium Rare
Character: Timmy
Released: March 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie mogul. He hires two psychopathic goons to take care of it, which only creates more trouble and attracts the cops.
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Death Wish 3
Title: Death Wish 3
Character: Hermosa
Released: November 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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Title: The Equalizer
Character: Jeffrey
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: TV
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
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Squeal of Death
Title: Squeal of Death
Character: Howie / Various Characters
Released: June 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Absurd slapstick cartoon-like comedy about Howie, a scrawny kid pushed around by his slob dad and everyone else. He loves cinema and becomes obsessed with a gangster film. This pushes him over the edge into the life of crime. Or does it?
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Gauguin the Savage
Title: Gauguin the Savage
Character: Clovis
Released: April 29, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.
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Bill & Ted 4
Title: Bill & Ted 4
Character: Bill S. Preston, Esq. (rumored)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Everyone's favorite slackers are back for another time traveling adventure!
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Absolute Dominion
Title: Absolute Dominion
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In 2085 A.D., global governing forces host a martial arts tournament. The last fighter standing wins Absolute Dominion for one faith.
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Adulthood
Title: Adulthood
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The lives of two siblings are completely upended when they discover a dead body, long buried in their parent’s basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder.