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William Michael "Bil" Dwyer (born March 30, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, game-show host, actor, and writer. He is perhaps most well known as the host or play-by-play announcer on series such as BattleBots, I've Got a Secret, and Extreme Dodgeball, as well as several iterations of VH1's I Love the '70s, I Love the '80s, and I Love the '90s, and a 2006 appearance on Last Comic Standing.
Clapham and Dwyer appeared in several films in the 1930s, including the early Will Hay film Radio Parade of 1935. The plotline of the 1937 musical revue film Sing As You Swing uses their being banned from the "BVD" broadcasting organisation as a running gag. Dwyer retired due to illness in 1940, and died in Uppingham, Rutland, in 1943
Variety Hour is a 1937 British musical comedy film directed by Redd Davis and starring Charles Clapham and Bill Dwyer. It is a revue show featuring a number of performers from radio and music hall. It was made at Wembley Studios as a quota quickie by the British subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox. [1]
Sing as You Swing is a 1937 British musical film directed by Redd Davis and starring Charles Clapham, Bill Dwyer and Claude Dampier. It was made as a quota quickie and features turns from a variety of radio and revue stars with little background narrative. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director George Provis.
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William Dwyer may refer to: William Dwyer (Irish politician) (1887–1951), Irish independent politician; Bill Dwyer (mobster) (1883–1946), American Prohibition-era gangster; Bil Dwyer (1907–1987), American cartoonist and humorist; William Lee Dwyer (1929–2002), U.S. federal judge; Ubi Dwyer (Bill Dwyer, 1933–2001), Windsor Free ...
On the morning of August 17, 1983, Bill Dwyer made The Grounding of Group 6 and its excellent reception the sole subject of his popular, syndicated, half-page column, "Bill Dwyer's World." Dwyer quoted famed writer, Robert Cormier's description as 'An extraordinary novel, by turns harrowing and hilarious, almost relentless in its suspense and ...
William Vincent Dwyer (February 23, 1883 – December 10, 1946), known as "Big Bill" Dwyer, was an early Irish-American Prohibition gangster and bootlegger in New York during the 1920s. He used his profits to purchase sports properties, including the New York Americans and Pittsburgh Pirates of the National Hockey League (NHL), as well as the ...