Bill Hader Profile
Actor-comedian-writer-producer Bill Hader, TCM Guest
Programmer for September, is most
celebrated for his hilarious work on
NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live,
especially his vivid impersonations
of such personalities as Vincent
Price, Al Pacino, James Carville and,
recently, TCM host Ben Mankiewicz!
Hader also has had roles in several
of the hottest film comedies of
recent times; including Superbad
(2007), Tropic Thunder (2008) and
the animated feature Cloudy with a
Chance of Meatballs (2009).
Hader has loved movies since he was a child growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and shows his film buff cred with four films from gifted directors. He chooses the WWII adventure Five Graves to Cairo (1943), an early directorial effort by Billy Wilder, because it demonstrates that the celebrated filmmaker "came out of the gate fully formed." He considers that Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) explores "fundamental truths" yet "still leaves a lot of ambiguity," with a visual style that's "like a living painting."
Hader loves Brewster McCloud (1970) because of director Robert Altman's audacious blending of various genres and the mere fact that "someone had the guts to make a movie like this!" And he finds the comic performances of Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer "astounding" in Rob Reiner's "mockumentary" about a rock band, This Is Spinal Tap (1984).
Hader has loved movies since he was a child growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and shows his film buff cred with four films from gifted directors. He chooses the WWII adventure Five Graves to Cairo (1943), an early directorial effort by Billy Wilder, because it demonstrates that the celebrated filmmaker "came out of the gate fully formed." He considers that Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) explores "fundamental truths" yet "still leaves a lot of ambiguity," with a visual style that's "like a living painting."
Hader loves Brewster McCloud (1970) because of director Robert Altman's audacious blending of various genres and the mere fact that "someone had the guts to make a movie like this!" And he finds the comic performances of Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer "astounding" in Rob Reiner's "mockumentary" about a rock band, This Is Spinal Tap (1984).
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