Alex Winter

Actors/Filmmakers

Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English-American actor, director, screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, and its 2020 sequel Bill & Ted Face the Music, all co-starring Keanu Reeves as Ted “Theodore” Logan.

He is also known for his role as Marko in Joel Schumacher‘s vampire film The Lost Boys (1987), with Corey Haim, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes; co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film Freaked, with Randy Quaid. He’s directed various episodes of TV series and documentaries over the years.

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen released in theaters)

  • NYU Sight & Sound Project (1984) – co-directed with Tom Stern, actor – short
  • Squeal of Death (1985) – co-directed with Tom Stern, co-writer, actor – short
  • Death Wish 3 (1985) – directed by Michael Winner
  • The Lost Boys (1987) – directed by Joel Schumacher
  • Medium Rare (1987) – directed by Paul Madden
  • Haunted Summer (1988) – directed by Ivan Passer
  • Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) – directed by Stephen Herek
  • Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) – directed by Percy Adlon
  • Aisles of Doom – short
  • Bar-B-Que Movie (1989) – director, actor – aka Entering Texas – short
  • Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) – directed by Peter Hewitt
  • Meals on Wheels (1991) – co-directed with Tim Stern, co-writer, actor – short – made for The Playboy Channel’s Inside Out late night anthology series
  • Freaked (1993) – co-directed with Tom Stern, co-writer, actor
  • Basic Values: Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90’s (1993) – directed by David Jablin
  • The Borrowers (1997)* – directed by Peter Hewitt
  • Fever (1999) – director, writer, actor
  • Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007) – director, actor – TV movie
  • Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009) – director, voice – TV movie
  • Downloaded (2012) – director – documentary
  • Grand Piano (2013) – directed by Eugenio Mira
  • Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road (2015) – director – documentary
  • Smosh: The Movie (2015) – director, actor
  • Anyone Can Quantum (2016) – director, writer – short
  • Relatively Free (2016) – director, writer – documentary short
  • Trump’s Lobby (2017) – director – short
  • The Panama Papers (2018) – director, writer – documentary
  • In Search of Darkness (2019) – directed by David A. Weiner – himself – documentary
  • Showbiz Kids (2020) – director, wrier – documentary
  • Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)* – directed by Dean Parisot
  • Zappa (2020) – director, wrier – documentary