Bill Holderman
Birthdate: Apr 16, 1977
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
Bill Holderman (birthname: William Holderman) is a veteran Hollywood producer who has branched into directing and writing. After working behind the scenes as producer and associate producer on the production side under Robert Redford’s Wildwood banner, including for Wildwood movies like Redford’s Lions for Lambs (2007) and The Conspirator (2010), Holderman co-wrote (with Michael Arndt, based on Bill Bryson’s book) and produced A Walk in the Woods (2015), starring Redford, Nick Nolte, and Emma Thompson, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, and grossing $37.4 million globally on an $8 million budget.
Holderman produced writer-director Elizabeth Chomko’s family drama, What They Had (2018), with Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Robert Forster, Blythe Danner, and Josh Lucas. Holderman’s first feature as co-writer (with Erin Simms) and director was the hit comedy, Book Club (2018), starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen, and earning a notable $104.4 million worldwide gross on a $10 million budget.
Holderman switched to producing only for another major feature with Redford as star for writer-director David Lowery’s droll true-crime comedy, The Old Man and the Gun (2018), co-starring Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, and Tom Waits, and released by Fox Searchlight, grossing $17.8 million worldwide. Holderman parlayed the success of Book Club into the sequel, Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023), with the main cast returning and which Holderman wrote and directed.
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Bill Holderman was born and raised in the La Grange area of Chicago, Illinois. He attended public schools in Chicago and graduated from Lyons Township High School in La Grange. Holderman then attended and earned his degree in theater from Northwestern University in 1999.
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Redford’s Right-Hand Man: For 14 years, Bill Holderman was producing partner with Robert Redford at Redford’s production company, Wildwood Enterprises, overseeing such movies as All Is Lost (2013) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).
