William Fichtner Intetview—Famous Bills Fan

[MattM]

Great interview with one of my favorite character actors and famous Bills fans, William/Bill Fichtner.

 

Especially love the intetview’s ending when he raced off to watch the Bills game!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/arts/television/william-fichtner-talamasca-the-secret-order.html

[dave mcbride]

27 minutes ago, MattM said:

Great interview with one of my favorite character actors and famous Bills fans, William/Bill Fichtner.

 

Especially love the intetview’s ending when he raced off to watch the Bills game!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/arts/television/william-fichtner-talamasca-the-secret-order.html

Love this! Thanks for the link.

[JP51]

Thanks for sharing

[thenorthremembers]

Living proof that alums of SUNY Brockport can be amazingly successful.   I am doing my part to dispel the notion.   Go Golden Eagles! 

[Ned Flanders]

1 minute ago, thenorthremembers said:

Living proof that alums of SUNY Brockport can be amazingly successful.   I am doing my part to dispel the notion.   Go Golden Eagles! 

Fellow Brockporter here...'85.

[skibum]

I loved him in Drowning Mona. One of my favorite "movies that time forgot". 

[thenorthremembers]

Just now, Ned Flanders said:

Fellow Brockporter here...'85.

 

'09.   Great place to get an education and not feel overwhelmed by a giant campus.  Took a drive through the other day and saw Fitchner's face on a giant banner.   To quote my teenage son.   "That dude went here?"

[BillsShredder83]

I almost hit him with my car as a teenager downtown before LOL true story.  Night before a season opener, near all the bars (I wasnt there for that), kept creeping up in my car as the white line was behind these 2 buildings... parked cars on side of road and busy traffic, very tricky to see, busy traffic.  I krpt creeping up and was tunnel visioned on an opening.

 

Getting ready to hit the gas and outta the corner of my eye I see something. Stomp the brake! A VERY ANNOYED FAMILIAR LOOKING FACE CROSSES IN FRONT HAHA

 

I yelled, "I ALMOST HIT THE 'PRISON BREAK GUY!'"

 

MY BAD WILLIAM! I'M NOW MUCH MORE AWARE WHEN CREEPING FORWARD IN THOSE SCENARIOS

[Sgt. Ski]

53 minutes ago, MattM said:

Great interview with one of my favorite character actors and famous Bills fans, William/Bill Fichtner.

 

Especially love the intetview’s ending when he raced off to watch the Bills game!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/arts/television/william-fichtner-talamasca-the-secret-order.html

nice guy, pretty sure i had a plastics class  with him at Maryvale

 

[longtimebillsfan]

11 hours ago, Ned Flanders said:

Fellow Brockporter here...'85.

Class of 75.  Lived at Bramley Hall and stage 16, though it no longer exists.

Edited 16 hours ago by longtimebillsfan

[Ray Finkel]

A guy who never forgot where he came from.  Goes back to Maryvale when he come back to town and speaks to the drama club.  A Buffalo guy through and through.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

I saw him at the kornerstone bakery in EA one of the last times i was there.  

[Mojo44]

1 hour ago, thenorthremembers said:

Living proof that alums of SUNY Brockport can be amazingly successful.   I am doing my part to dispel the notion.   Go Golden Eagles! 

I graduated from Brockport in 1976

[thenorthremembers]

1 minute ago, Mojo44 said:

I graduated from Brockport in 1976

 

Seems like you and @longtimebillsfan were at Brockport at the same time. 

[T master]

3 hours ago, MattM said:

Great interview with one of my favorite character actors and famous Bills fans, William/Bill Fichtner.

 

Especially love the intetview’s ending when he raced off to watch the Bills game!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/arts/television/william-fichtner-talamasca-the-secret-order.html

He is definitely a Bill ...

[Sierra Foothills]

Yes Fichtner is a good intetview. He has a great perspetctive of the Bills and strontg instights as well.

 

His historty as a lontgtime Bills fan makes him an esteemted membter of Bills Mafia.

[Kornfed]

2 hours ago, skibum said:

I loved him in Drowning Mona. One of my favorite "movies that time forgot". 

Thought I was the only person who saw that movie! ..Funny as hell 

[skibum]

2 hours ago, BillsShredder83 said:

I almost hit him with my car as a teenager downtown before LOL true story.  Night before a season opener, near all the bars (I wasnt there for that), kept creeping up in my car as the white line was behind these 2 buildings... parked cars on side of road and busy traffic, very tricky to see, busy traffic.  I krpt creeping up and was tunnel visioned on an opening.

 

Getting ready to hit the gas and outta the corner of my eye I see something. Stomp the brake! A VERY ANNOYED FAMILIAR LOOKING FACE CROSSES IN FRONT HAHA

 

I yelled, "I ALMOST HIT THE 'PRISON BREAK GUY!'"

 

MY BAD WILLIAM! I'M NOW MUCH MORE AWARE WHEN CREEPING FORWARD IN THOSE SCENARIOS

Funny, I almost collided with Mr. Fichtner at the airport in Cabo San Lucas several years ago. I was maneuvering through a crowded food court and suddenly found myself face to face with the battered husband from Drowning Mona. We darn near smashed our foreheads together. 

 

Watch where you're going, Fichtner!

[Gary Marangi]

4 hours ago, skibum said:

I loved him in Drowning Mona. One of my favorite "movies that time forgot". 

S***t sandwich line cracks me up everytime a great underrated movie.

[Mark Vader]

For some reason I keep forgetting that he was in "Black Hawk Down".

 

Then I also forget that Tom Sizemore, Tom Hardy, Eric Bana & Jason Issacs are in that movie too.