Bill Persky

Biography

Career Overview

Bill Persky has 33 screen credits in a career dating back to 1961. Signature works include Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home, Serial, How to Pick Up Girls!. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 33

Known For

Frequent Collaborators

Sam Denoff (4 collaborations)
Richard Caine (2 collaborations)
Shelley Hack (2 collaborations)
Barton Heyman (2 collaborations)
Christina-Avis Krauss (2 collaborations)
Paul Michael Glaser (1 collaborations)
Dee Wallace (1 collaborations)
Peggy McCay (1 collaborations)
David Doyle (1 collaborations)
Ray Buktenica (1 collaborations)

Credits

actors (3 credits)
- Being Mary Tyler Moore
  Self (voice)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- American Masters
  
  - Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025) ... Self - Interviewee (archive footage) actor actors
  
  1986
- Water
  TV Director
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
writing (11 credits)
- Water
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1985
- Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1983
- How to Pick Up Girls!
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1978
- How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1978
- Roll, Freddy, Roll!
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1974
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
  
  screenplay
  
  writing
  
  1972
- The First Nine Months Are the Hardest
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1971
- Pure Goldie
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1971
- Three for Tahiti
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1970
- The Julie Andrews Show
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1965
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
  
  writer
  
  writing
  
  - The Last Chapter (1966) ... writer writing
  
  - The Gunslinger (1966) ... writer writing
  
  - Long Night's Journey into Day (1966) ... writer writing
  
  - Love Thy Other Neighbor (1966) ... writer writing
  
  - You Ought to Be in Pictures (1966) ... writer writing
  
  1961
directing (11 credits)
- Who's the Boss?
  
  - Pilot (1984) ... director directing
  
  1984
- Found Money
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1983
- Comedy of Horrors
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1981
- Serial
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1980
- How to Pick Up Girls!
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1978
- How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1978
- Alice
  
  - Pay the Fifty Dollars (1976) ... director directing
  
  - A Piece of the Rock (1976) ... director directing
  
  1976
- Roll, Freddy, Roll!
  
  director
  
  directing
  
  1974
- That Girl
  
  - Stocks and the Single Girl (1970) ... director directing
  
  1966
production (6 credits)
- How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1978
- Roll, Freddy, Roll!
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1974
- Pure Goldie
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1971
- Three for Tahiti
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  1970
- That Girl
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  - The Elevated Woman (1971) ... producer production
  
  - Soot Yourself (1971) ... producer production
  
  - Two For the Money (1971) ... producer production
  
  - Stag Party (1971) ... producer production
  
  - That King (1971) ... producer production
  
  1966
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
  
  producer
  
  production
  
  - The Last Chapter (1966) ... producer production
  
  - The Gunslinger (1966) ... producer production
  
  - Long Night's Journey into Day (1966) ... producer production
  
  - Love Thy Other Neighbor (1966) ... producer production
  
  - You Ought to Be in Pictures (1966) ... producer production
  
  1961
crew (1 credits)
- The First Nine Months Are the Hardest
  
  creator
  
  crew
  
  1971
creators (1 credits)
- That Girl
  
  creator
  
  creators
  
  1966