1917 Born in Seattle, Washington

1929 Buys first camera, an Eastman Kodak No. 2 Brownie, for $2.29.

1932 At age 15, Bill is recognized as an amateur photographer by Seattle Photo Finishers who select his photo to exploit amateur photography and "drug store" film processing. The picture is of the interior of a mountain cabin at Pratt Lake made with existing light.

1934-41 Without formal training, learns photography "hands on" at Columbia Pictures while working for photographers Bud Fraker and A.L. "Whitey" Schafer as a helper, contact printer, enlarger and negative developer.

1942-1945 Assigned in U.S. Army Signal Corps as a combat cameraman, photographer and paratrooper during the Papuan Campaign in New Guinea. After bouts of malaria and typhus, receives noncombat duties as photographic coordinator for Signal Section, United States Services of Supply in Southwest Pacific area, Hollandia to Manila.

1945-1948 Returns to Columbia Pictures as the still laboratory foreman for photographer Robert Coburn and eventually receives promotion to the position of still cameraman.

1948-1952 Leaves Columbia, finding work at MGM in still laboratory for photographer C.S. Bull as contact printer, enlarger, and special processing (develops process of intermediate positive film in the making of 8x10 duplicated negatives from smaller 2-1/4 x 1-1/4 and 4x5 negatives).

1952-1958 Becomes still cameraman again, this time at Paramount Pictures, working for photographer Bud Fraker. Does magazine photography, shooting publicity layouts of celebrities including Elvis Presley, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon, Katharine Hepburn, and Audrey Hepburn. Also covers motion picture studio assignments including Funny Face, The Rainmaker, Kings Go Forth, Hotspell, To Catch a Thief, The Front Page, etc.

1958-1959 Works as a freelance photographer for agencies Black Star and FPG.

1959-1966 Hiatus in Vermont. Does still cameraman work on Those Calloways for Disney Vermont locations in 1962-63.

1966-1979 Freelances as still cameraman for MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Columbia, Warner, National General, Goldwyn, Allied Artists, AIP, United Artists, ABC, CBS, Walt Disney, and various independents.

1979 Retires.

June 8, 2002 Survived by his wife.