Bill Dillard

{{short description|American jazz musician}}{{Infobox musical artist | name = Bill Dillard | birth_name = William Dillard | birth_date = July 20, 1911 | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = January 16, 1995 (aged 84) | death_place = New York City, U.S. | genre = Jazz | instruments = Trumpet, vocals }}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}} '''William Dillard''' (July 20, 1911 – January 16, 1995)<ref name="Obit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/19/obituaries/william-dillard-83-a-jazz-trumpeter.html|title=William Dillard, 83, A Jazz Trumpeter|date=January 19, 1995|access-date=August 23, 2021|website=The New York Times}}</ref> was an American jazz trumpeter, actor, and singer.<ref name="Grove" />

== Background == Dillard was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=694}}</ref> and played in bands led by Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Carter, Luis Russell and Teddy Hill, among others.<ref name="Grove" /> He also had an acting career on Broadway,<ref>{{cite book | author = Carr, Ian | author-link = Ian Carr | author2 = Digby Fairweather | author2-link = Digby Fairweather | author3 = Brian Priestley | author3-link = Brian Priestley | title = Jazz: The Rough Guide | publisher = The Rough Guides | year = 1995 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/jazzroughguide00carr/page/170 170–171] | isbn = 1-85828-137-7 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/jazzroughguide00carr/page/170 }}</ref> including in ''One Mo' Time''.<ref name="Grove" />

==Discography== '''With Dizzy Gillespie''' *''The Complete RCA Victor Recordings'' (Bluebird, 1937–1949, [1995]) '''With Earle Warren''' *''Earle Warren'' (RCA, 1974)<ref name="Grove">{{Cite Grove |last1=Britt |first1=Stan |last2=Rye |first2=Howard |last3=Kernfeld |first3=Barry |date=2003 |title=Dillard, Bill [William] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.J121500}}</ref>

==Filmography==

=== Film === {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ !Year !Title !Role !Notes |- |1941 |''Murder with Music'' |Mike | |- |1946 |''House-Rent Party'' |Police Officer | |- |1946 |''Fight That Ghost'' |Jim Brown | |- |1948 |''The Fight Never Ends'' |Det. Billingsly | |}

=== Television === {| class="wikitable sortable" !Year !Title !Role !Notes |- |1953 |''Omnibus'' |{{N/a}} |Episode: "135th Street" |- |1954 |''Kraft Television Theatre'' |{{N/a}} |Episode: "The Worried Man's Blues" |- |1957 |''The Green Pastures'' |King of Babylon |Television film |- |1980 |''Barney Miller'' |Edward Jennings / Fast Eddie |Episode: "Fog" |}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dillard, Bill}} Category:American jazz trumpeters Category:American male trumpeters Category:American jazz singers Category:Swing trumpeters Category:1911 births Category:1995 deaths Category:20th-century American male actors Category:20th-century American singers Category:20th-century American trumpeters Category:20th-century American male musicians Category:American male jazz musicians