Bill: On His Own

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox television | image = Bill On His Own.jpg | image_size = | image_alt = | caption = | genre = Biography Drama | creator = | based_on = | writer = [[Barry Morrow]] | screenplay = | story = | director = [[Anthony Page]] | starring = [[Mickey Rooney]] [[Helen Hunt]] [[Dennis Quaid]] [[Largo Woodruff]] [[Edie McClurg]] [[Tracey Walter]] [[Teresa Wright]] | narrator = | theme_music_composer = [[Lee Curreri]] | country = United States | language = English | num_episodes = | executive_producer = [[Alan Landsburg]] | producer = [[Linda Otto]] | location = [[Houston]] [[San Antonio]] | editor = [[Corky Ehlers]] John C. Horger | cinematography = Mike Fash | runtime = 100 minutes | company = [[Alan Landsburg Productions]] | budget = | network = [[CBS]] | released = {{Start date|1983|11|9}} }} '''''Bill: On His Own''''' is a 1983 American [[television film|made-for-television]] [[biographical film|biographical]] [[drama (film and television)|drama film]] and a sequel to ''[[Bill (1981 film)|Bill]]'' (1981) starring [[Mickey Rooney]] as [[Bill Sackter]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/bill-on-his-own-v5615|title=Bill: On His Own (1983) - Anthony Page | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related|website=AllMovie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f529569|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171205174146/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f529569|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 5, 2017|title=Bill: On His Own (1983)|website=BFI}}</ref>

== Plot == Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Mae Driscoll, who teaches him how to read. Bill soon discovers his religious heritage, overcomes the fire that accidentally destroyed his small canteen business, then travels to California to search for the Morrows.

==Cast== *[[Mickey Rooney]] - [[Bill Sackter]] *[[Helen Hunt]] - Jenny Wells *[[Dennis Quaid]] - [[Barry Morrow]] *[[Largo Woodruff]] - Beverly Morrow *[[Edie McClurg]] - Angela *[[Tracey Walter]] - Kenny *[[Teresa Wright]] - Mae Driscoll *[[Paul Lieber]] - Rabbi Portman *[[Harry Goz]] - Tom Walz

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0085247|title=Bill: On His Own}}

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