Bill Eagles

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Bill Eagles
OccupationFilm director, television director
Years active1993–present

Bill Eagles is a British film and television director. He is best known for directing the 2000 film Beautiful Creatures starring Susan Lynch and Rachel Weisz.

As a television director, he moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and worked for 10 years directing TV movies, mini series and episodic TV. Some his credits include CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , Gotham , Invasion , Cold Case , Numb3rs , Battlestar Galactica , Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles , Threshold , Crash , Persons Unknown , Fringe and ‘’Pennyworth’’. He has also directed a number of television films in his native United Kingdom. [1]

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References

  1. "Bill Eagles Movies & TV". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2007. Archived from the original on 12 November 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2012.