Bill Switzer
Birthday: Born in 1984-03-28 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Deathday: Alive
Although born in Houston, Bill Switzer moved with his family to Calgary a year after his birth and then to Vancouver in 1990. He worked as an actor in the Canadian film industry from 1995 until 2004 and worked in a variety of positions in a number of industries throughout Canada creating an uncommon set of skills and practical knowledge. From small engine mechanics to 3D modeling, voice acting to assisting in geophysical surveys, Bill has a multifaceted pool of experience to draw from when set to task. He graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 2009 and is living in Yellowknife, working for the local branch of Aurora Geosciences, a mineral exploration company. Besides that, he is also a freelance web designer/3D modeler, motorcycle/small engine mechanic and as a general handyman. One of six finalists for the 10th annual YTV Achievement Awards in the category of Acting. The YTV Achievement Awards honor youth that have made a significant achievement in one of fifteen categories. Has 2 younger sisters Is friends with Andrew Francis.
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Sabrina: The Animated Series
Character: Harvey Kinkle (voice)
An animated prequel to the live-action show "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," the series features 12-year-old Sabrina Spellman, who's half mortal and half witch. Though few people know of her powers, and her mortal uncle frequently warns her not to use her magic to solve problems, Sabrina still borrows spells from the Spookie Jar and gets into trouble with her friend Harvey....
X-Men: Evolution
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Teenagers Cyclops, Jean Grey, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Spike fight for a world that fears and hates them....
The Dead Zone
Character: Doug Hirsch
Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma....
Mummies Alive!
Character: Pressley (voice)
Mummies Alive! is an American animated series from DIC Entertainment. It originally aired for one season in 1997. In ancient Egypt, an evil sorcerer named Scarab, kills the pharaoh's son, Prince Rapses, so he can become immortal. Entombed alive for his crime, Scarab revives in the modern world and begins his search for Rapses' reincarnation, a San Francisco-dwelling boy named Presley Carnovan to retrieve the spirit of Rapses' so he can become immortal. Rapses' bodyguards, Ja-Kal, Rath, Armon, a...
Sabrina's Secret Life
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Sabrina enrolls in secret witchcraft training classes while attending her normal high school, but discovers she must share her clandestine instruction and her regular school with Portia, a snooty young witch from the “other side”. Thus the stage is set for magical mayhem in the craziest, weirdest, most mixed-up world of all: high school....
Extreme Dinosaurs
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In the present a team of four anthropomorphic dinosaurs, created by aliens, must stop three anthropomorphic velociraptors who want to cause a cataclysm that would speed up global warming and make Earth's climate pleasant for dinosaurs again....
Silverwing
Character: Shade / Haglund Pigeon (voice)
A young bat and his friends struggle to find his colony and free it from an ancient and unjust punishment....
Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension
Character: Mitchell Taylor
A new mystery begins for two young boys in the seemingly ordinary town of Eerie, Indiana as they experience strange and interesting phenomena....
MythQuest
Character: Philthy
While searching for their missing father, Alex & Cleo Bellows are drawn into the actual myths when entering the Cyber Museum. They encounter Gorgos, a trickster god, who wants to destroy the world by constantly changing the famous myths....
Rainbow Fish
Character: Stingo (Voice)
Based on the popular books by Marcus Pfister, the animated series follows the adventures of a boy fish with glittering scales and his friends in the underwater Bay of Neptune....
The Sentinel
Character: Edward Lazar
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses....
First Wave
Character: Nick Patterson
First Wave is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that aired from 1998 to 2001 on the Sci-Fi Channel. The show was created by Chris Brancato, who co-wrote an early version of the script for the seminal X-Files episode "Eve". Francis Ford Coppola was executive producer on the show. In an unusual move, the Sci-Fi Channel picked up the series on a 66-episode contract. The show was subsequently canceled once the contract expired at th...
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Mail to the Chief
Character: Kenny Witkowski
A humorous and inspiring adventure about an ordinary middle school student who strikes up an online friendship with someone bearing the screen name Average Joe, only to discover that he's been corresponding with and giving political advice to the President of the United States....
The Dinosaur Hunter
Character: Daniel Creath
A 13-year-old girl and her older brother live on a farm where paleontologists search for fossils....
Shari's Passover Surprise
Character: Charlie's Friend
Trouble brews as Charlie Horse's campaign for class president leads him to invite the whole class to Shari's for Passover... a fact he conveniently forgets to pass on to Shari until the eleventh hour. Meanwhile, everyone else is getting in on the action... Dom Deluise gets an education on the Seder plate and the significance of each item it holds, and neighbor Robert Guillaume delivers a song and dance explanation of the history of Passover....
Scorn
Character: David
Darren Huenemann, a spoiled 18-year old plots to have two classmates murder his mother and grandmother so he can inherit their fortunes. His worship of Caligula leads him to treat all like those in the Roman Imperial Court, manipulating, threatening and cajoling those who would stand in his way. Based on a true story of the early Nineties in British Columbia....
Cheats
Character: Garret
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years....
Mama, Do You Love Me?
Character: Sam / Rascal (voice)
Charming tale of affection, adventure, and wonder in which a young Inuit girl disobeys her mother and wanders away from home....
When Danger Follows You Home
Character: Andrew Werden
A single mom and psychiatric intern encounters a troubled but brilliant young man who turns up dead in her house after she befriended him. When she finds herself the prime suspect, she sets out to solve the crime and clear her name....
Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: Daniel and the Lion's Den
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There are many heroes in the Old Testament. Some are great warriors. But others are men of quiet faith--men who display their courage not on the battle field, but simply by refusing to disobey God. Daniel is such a man. His story has been brought to life in a beautifully animated film that will appeal to your entire family. Daniel and the Lion's Den is one of the twelve programs in the Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible series. This program features: All-new animation, an introduction by C...
Greatest Heroes and Legends of The Bible: The Garden of Eden
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"In the beginning, God created the Heaven and the Earth..." With those words, the biblical story of creation beginsGod creates all the living creatures on land and water, and then creates man in His own image. Now, with this beautiful animated film, your family can experience the true power of this extraordinary story. Adam is alone, but eventually God decides to give him a companion and creates Eve. For a time, it seems that they will live indefinitely in Paradise, until the story takes a tr...
The Christmas List
Character: Danny Skyler
Perfume saleslady Melody Parris feels like her life is in neutral. Her stick-in-the mud boyfriend won't commit and she gets passed over for a promotion at the store where she works. She decides to make a Christmas list. After it's deposited in Santa's mailbox at the store, she starts getting everything she wanted, but it doesn't always turn out as she expected....
Mr. Rice's Secret
Character: Owen Walters
A terminally-ill boy's life is saved when his deceased 400-year-old friend, "Mr. Rice", leads him on a treasure hunt to find a magical "Potion of Life"....