Van Zandt, Billy

PERSONAL

Brother of Steven Van Zandt (a guitarist and actor); married Adrienne Barbeau (an actress), January 1992; children: Walker Steven and William Dalton (twins).

Addresses: Agent—Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Writer, producer, story editor, consultant, and actor.

Awards, Honors: Emmy Award nomination (with others), outstanding informational special, 1990, for I Love Lucy: The Very First Show.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Story editor, Newhart, CBS, 1982.

Executive story consultant, Anything But Love, ABC, 1989.

Supervising producer, Nurses, NBC, 1991.

Co-executive producer, Martin, Fox, 1992.

Creator and executive producer, Daddy Dearest, Fox, 1993.

Executive producer, Bless This House, CBS, 1995.

Executive producer, The Wayans Bros., WB, 1995.

Consulting producer, The Hughleys, ABC, 1998–99.

Consulting producer, Yes, Dear, CBS, 2000.

Consulting producer, Center of the Universe, CBS, 2004.

Television Work; Specials:

(With Jane Milmore) Producer, I Love Lucy: The Very First Show, CBS, 1990.

Television Executive Producer; Pilots:

Staten Island 10309, CBS, 1995.

Heaven Will Wait, CBS, 1997.

Television Director; Episodic:

Directed episodes of Yes, Dear, CBS.

Television Appearances; Series:

Harold, Anything But Love, 1989–90.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

The delivery boy, "Lucy Makes Curtis Byte the Dust," Life with Lucy, 1986.

"I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus," Martin, Fox, 1992.

"Credit Card Blues," Martin, Fox, 1993.

Bartender, "It's a Girl: Part 2," The Hughleys, 2002.

Film Appearances:

Bob, Jaws 2, Universal Pictures Home Video, 1978.

Alien boy, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (also known as Star Trek: The Motion Picture—The Director's Edition), Paramount, 1979.

Bug, Taps, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981.

Louie, A Wake in Providence, 1999.

WRITINGS

Television Specials:

I Love Lucy: The Very First Show, CBS, 1990.

Television Pilots:

(With Jane Milmore) Daddy Dearest, Fox, 1993.

Staten Island 10309, CBS, 1995.

Television Episodes; with Jane Milmore:

"Goonstruck," Newhart, 1988.

"The Nice Man Cometh," Newhart, 1989.

"Murder at the Stratley," Newhart, 1989.

"Bang You're Dead," Anything But Love, NBC, 1989.

"It's Better to Have Loved and Flossed," Anything But Love, NBC, 1989.

"Partying is Such Sweet Sorrow," Anything But Love, NBC, 1990.

"Hello … Mali (Part 3)," Anything But Love, NBC, 1991.

"Reversal of Grandpa," Nurses, NBC, 1991.

"Mother Jugs, and Zach," Nurses, NBC, 1991.

"The Gift Rapper," Martin, Fox, 1992.

"The Parents Are Coming, the Parents Are Coming," Martin, Fox, 1992.

"The Night He Came Home," Martin, Fox, 1992.

"I Saw Gina Kissing Santa Claus," Martin, Fox, 1992.

"Blackboard Jungle Fever," Martin, Fox, 1993.

"Break Up: Part 2," Martin, Fox, 1993.

"Mother Love," Daddy Dearest, Fox, 1993.

"Mount St. Helen's," Daddy Dearest, Fox, 1993.

"The Postman Always Moves," Bless This House, CBS, 1995.

"Goop-Hair-It Is," The Wayans Bros., The WB, 1995.

(With others) "First Episode," Suddenly Susan, NBC, 1996.

"Rich Kids Bad, Poor Kids Good," The Hughleys, ABC, 1998.

"Baby Fever," The Hughleys, ABC, 1998.

"Reliving Single," The Hughleys, ABC, 1999.

"Honey, I Beat the Kids," The Hughleys, ABC, 1999.

"Death Takes a Three Day Holiday," The Hughleys, UPN, 2000.

"Two Jacks and a Beanstalk," The Hughleys, UPN, 2000.

"Darryl's Victory Tour," The Hughleys, UPN, 2000.

"Look Who's Not Talking," Yes, Dear, 2000.

"Darryl, Family Counselor," The Hughleys, UPN, 2001.

"When Darryl Bumped Sally," The Hughleys, UPN, 2001.

"Leaving Las Vegas," The Hughleys, UPN, 2002.

"The New Neighbors," Center of the Universe, 2005.

Television Episodes; Stories:

(With Jane Milmore, Mark Egan, and Mark Solomon) "Cupcake on My Back," Newhart, 1989.

(With Milmore) "Halloween," Yes, Dear, CBS, 2001.

Screenplays:

A Wake in Providence, Mister P. Productions, 1999.

Plays:

(With others) Drop Dead, Los Angeles production, 1991.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

People Weekly, May 12, 1997, p. 38.