Bill had rheumatic fever in the 7th grade. It kept him hospitalized for a month and bed-ridden for four months. He had to take regular doses of penicillin until he was 18.
As a teen, Bill caddied for golf great Ben Hogan in Fort Worth.
Has two children with Louise Newbury: James Paxton (b. 1994) and Lydia (b. 19 December 1997).
Directed the theatrical short Fish Heads (1982) which won a Special Award at the 1982 Melbourne Film Festival.
Co-authored and produced the short, Scoop (1983), which won a Honorable Mention at the 1983 USA Film Festival.
Member of the 80s rock band Martini Ranch. James Cameron directed a video for their song "Reach" featuring many Cameron alumni (Kathryn Bigelow, Lance Henriksen, Jeanette Goldstein).
Son of John Paxton.
Attended Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, Texas
Met his wife on a number 13 bus in London.
Bill's paternal grandfather was friend and neighbor to the great American painter, Thomas Hart Benton.
Learned to speak German to prepare for his part in the Pat Benatar video, "Shadows of the Night."
Attended Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, Texas. The same high school as John Denver and Lee Harvey Oswald (who left before he graduated).
He is the only actor who has been killed an Alien (Aliens (1986)) and a Predator (Predator 2 (1990)).
In his movies he has been killed by an Alien, a Predator and a Terminator.
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