Tim Williams

John Timothy Williams was born on February 9, 1960 in Fort Worth, Texas. The son of an engineer, Williams cut his teeth in film, making 8mm action shorts at 16. His first short film, The Break, a true story about a lost WWII fighter pilot, was picked up by PBS affiliate, KERA-TV in Dallas where it aired annually on Memorial Day. With film schools in short supply, Williams majored in business, then switched to journalism, theater and English while playing football and track at Colorado State University and The University of Arizona. Upon graduation in 1983, he headed for Los Angeles to learn the film business from the ground up. He divided time between working as a P.A., grip, A.D. and set dresser on commercials, television and features, then securing acting roles on shows such as Santa Barbara and Police Academy 2, while attending film school classes at USC Cinema-TV and writing multiple screenplays. He returned to Texas as a set dresser on Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July. Love grabbed him in 1989 and he was married later that year. He began producing, writing and directing commercials and short films out of Dallas. In 2009 and 2010, he wrote, produced and directed a series of Tostitos commercials in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His most recent short, The Colonel, starring Kevin Durand, won best narrative short at 2017's GI Film Festival. Williams is married with four children.