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William Baldwin

Acting

Born February 21, 1963 · Massapequa, New York, USA

Also known as Billy Baldwin

Biography

William Joseph 'Billy' Baldwin (born February 21, 1963) is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners (1990), Backdraft (1991), Sliver (1993), Fair Game (1995), Virus (1999), Double Bang (2001), as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom (2004–2007), Art Heist (2004), The Squid and the Whale (2005), as Senator Patrick Darling on the ABC drama Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009), Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010), and was a regular guest on Gossip Girl as William van der Woodsen and Parenthood as Gordon Flint. He also starred as lead detective Brian Albert in the Lifetime Original Movie The Craigslist Killer. He is brother to actors Alec Baldwin, Stephen Baldwin, and Daniel Baldwin. He is married to singer Chynna Phillips (Wilson Phillips) and they have 3 children.

Filmography50+ titles

Danny Phantom

2003as Johnny 13 (voice)

Gossip Girl

2007as William van der Woodsen

Wrestled Away: The Lee Kemp Story

2019as Narrator

Insatiable

2018as Gordy Greer

Forever

2014as Oliver Clarion

Hawaii Five-0

2010as Frank Delano

Hollywood Squares

1998as Self - Panelist

Parenthood

2010as Gordon Flint

30 Rock

2006as Lance Drake Mandrell

Hacks

2021as Billy Baldwin

Too Old to Die Young

2019as Theo

MacGyver

2016as Elwood

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

2010as Batman (voice)

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2008as Self

Hot in Cleveland

2010as Dane

The Squid and the Whale

2005as Ivan

Born on the Fourth of July

1989as Platoon - Vietnam

The Purge

2018as David Ryker

Saturday Night Live

1975as Self (uncredited)

No Address

2025as Robert

Backdraft

1991as Brian McCaffrey

Dream Corp LLC

2016as Patient 66's Father (voice)

Men at Work

2012as Shepard Peters

The Case of the Christmas Diamond

2022as Detective Billings

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

2008as Detective Hunter Rush

Flatliners

1990as Joe Hurley

Backdraft 2

2019as Brian McCaffrey

Internal Affairs

1990as Van Stretch

Dirty Sexy Money

2007as Patrick Darling

Bulworth

1998as Constance's Lover (uncredited)

Candy Land

2022as Sheriff Rex

Northern Rescue

2019as John West

Humble Pie

2007as Truman Hope

Dakota

2022as Monty Sanders

On the Line

2022Executive Producer

Beckman

2020as Reese

Real Time with Bill Maher

2003as Self

Cut Off

2017as Haskell

Sexy Evil Genius

2013as Bert Mayfaire

Noise

2007as Mayor's Chief of Staff

Curdled

1996as Paul Guell

Ice Storm

2023as Senator Carlson

A Royal Christmas on Ice

2022as Daryl Blake

1st Born

2019as Saul

Be My Valentine

2013as Dan Farrell

Adrift in Manhattan

2007as Mark Phipps

Super Volcano

2022as Senator Carlson

Sliver

1993as Zeke Hawkins

The Preppie Murder

1989as Robert Chambers

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

1988