Bill Timoney

Bill Timoney is an American actor, director, writer, and producer born on March 5, 1958, in Teaneck, New Jersey. His career spans television, film, voice acting, stage work, and production, with Broadway credits including All the Way, Network, Purlie Victorious, Our Town, and All the Way Home.

Timoney is widely recognized for his television role as Alfred Vanderpool on the daytime drama All My Children, a character he portrayed from 1982 through 1987 and revisited in cameo appearances from 1998 through 2005. The character, described as "the preppie nerd of Pine Valley," left a notable cultural imprint: Nathan Morris of the musical group Boyz II Men adopted the stage name "Alex Vanderpool" early in the group's career as a tribute to the role. Beyond daytime television, Timoney has worked extensively as a voice actor, specializing in dubbing for foreign-language live-action and animated productions. He has directed and script-adapted Japanese anime dubs at Headline Studios and, together with his wife, actress Georgette Reilly Timoney, voiced the recurring married characters Izzy and Cara on Season 12 of the long-running anime series Pokémon. He has also written the recurring column "Heard But Not Seen: Adventures in Voice Acting" for Videoscope Magazine and performed stand-up comedy at New York City's Improv.

Timoney's stage career began off-Broadway in April 2010 at the Soho Playhouse, where he served as understudy to Dan Butler in the role of Joseph Flaherty in Martin Casella's The Irish Curse, going on for Butler across several performances and also covering Scott Jaeck in the role of Father Kevin for one performance. That same year, in August 2010, he earned strong notices playing Bob in Stephen Padilla's drama Picking Palin at the New York International Fringe Festival, appearing alongside his wife. The couple have also performed together in productions at Arkansas Rep, NJ Rep, Shadow Lawn Stage, and the Celtic Theatre Company of New Jersey.

Timoney made his Broadway debut in early 2014 in Robert Schenkkan's drama All the Way, which opened on March 6, 2014, at the Neil Simon Theatre in Manhattan. He portrayed nine roles in the production, including Senator Karl Mundt, a White House aide, a butler, a Secret Service agent, and a Congressman. The play starred Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson and won two 2014 Tony Awards, for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play. Timoney and Cranston reunited on Broadway in 2018 for the stage adaptation of Network, in which Timoney played the television news program's director and also understudied Cranston in the role of anchorman Howard Beale, a performance that earned Cranston his second Tony Award.

In addition to his stage work, Timoney appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2019 feature film The Irishman, playing a prosecutor at the title character's trial in a role that was unscripted; Timoney and Robert De Niro improvised the entire exchange between the prosecutor and the defendant. He also served as associate producer, cast member, and fight coordinator on the independent feature film Last Chance, the directorial debut of Bryan Cranston. In 2012, Timoney took a one-year leave from acting to work as line producer for Ebru Today, a live daily morning news program affiliated with the Turkish Samanyolu media conglomerate that aired internationally. In that capacity he constructed daily scripts, assigned stories to reporters and editors, fact-checked content, and wrote commentary including the weekly feature "Get to Know Your Vice-Presidents."

Timoney has been married to Georgette Reilly since March 16, 2002. The couple are New Jersey natives and reside on the Jersey Shore.