- Born
- Birth nameWilliam Rankin Patton
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- Will Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, Bill Patton, is a playwright, acting/directing instructor, and Lutheran minister. Patton attended the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has won two OBIE awards for Best Actor -- for the off-Broadway plays "Fool for Love" (by Sam Shepard) and the Public Theatre production of "What Did He See?" (by Richard Foreman).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Julia Thompson <juliat@geocities.com>
- ParentsJan PattonBill Patton
- Usually plays the right hand man to the leader roles
- Sibilant voice with Southern accent
- When he left the 1984 off-Broadway production of "Fool for Love", he was replaced by his understudy, Bruce Willis.
- Narrates audio books. Has narrated over forty audio books, including Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", and James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" series (twenty books in the series so far).
- Eldest son of William Rankin Patton, Senior. His father was a Lutheran minister, an acting/directing instructor, and a playwright.
- Trained for the stage at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Actors Studio and with Joseph Chaiken at the Open Theatre in New York.
- I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
- I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.
- I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.
- In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.
- I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.
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