William M. Connor

William M. Connor is an Executive Producer and First Assistant Director with over twenty-five years of filmmaking experience. His wide ranging work includes films such as As Good As It Gets, Apollo 13, Salt, Frost/Nixon and The Bourne Legacy. He worked with Director Ang Lee on Life Of Pi, which received four Academy Awards and received a Director's Guild of America award as an Assistant Director on Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard. Connor has collaborated with Ron Howard on fifteen films including Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code and Hillbilly Elegy. He is in production with Howard on the upcoming drama, 13 Lives. Some of his early production work includes Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino and The American President starring Michael Douglas. Connor was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. and graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University.