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William Vail
Born November 30, 1950 in San Antonio, Texas, USA18 films
Wlliam Vail (born November 30, 1950) is an American set decorator and actorbest known for his role as "Kirk" in the 1974 American horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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Vail was born in San Antonio, Texas. He began his film career in 1974, when he played the character of "Kirk" in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He then starred in three more films titled Poltergeist (1982), Mausoleum (1983), and Glitch! (1988). He then decided to switch as a Set Decorator in the film, A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story (1989). He continues to work as a Set Decorator, and has recently helped with the TV Movie, The Craigslist Killer (2011).
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First watchAmish Grace20107.0When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the…View filmEssential films
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Filmography
18 films- 2012Blue Lagoon: The AwakeningSet Decoration
- 2011The Craigslist KillerSet Decoration
- 2010Lies in Plain SightSet Decoration
- 2010Amish GraceSet Decoration
- 2000American TragedySet Decoration
- 1996Deadly WebSet Decoration
- 1996Riders of the Purple SageSet Decoration
- 1995The West Side WaltzSet Decoration
- 1994The Enemy WithinSet Decoration
- 1994Midnight Run for Your LifeSet Decoration
- 1994Midnight Run AroundSet Decoration
- 1994Another Midnight RunSet Decoration
- 1991White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma ToddSet Decoration
- 1991Chernobyl: The Final WarningArt Direction
- 1990A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little MurderSet Decoration
- 1990Return to Green AcresSet Decoration
- 1990Too Young to DieSet Decoration
- 1989A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman StorySet Decoration