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Bill Corbett

Writer, Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn March 30, 1960 (65 years)
Bill Corbett is a former writer for MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 and also a performer on the show, providing the voice of the robot Crow (v.2.0) and playing various other strange characters -- including the all-powerful but clueless alien The Observer (a.k.a. "Brain Guy").

Corbett is also a screenwriter and playwright. Corbett's screenplay STARSHIP DAVE, co-written with Rob Greenberg, was made into the movie MEET DAVE starring Eddie Murphy, released by 20th Century Fox. His plays have been produced internationally. Corbett's comedy THE BIG SLAM has been produced at numerous theaters across the U.S., including Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C.; ACT in Seattle; and actor Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea, Michigan. Other plays include HATE MAIL, THE STUFF OF DREAMS, and his comic book holiday mashup SUPER-POWERED-REVENGE CHRISTMAS #1.

He has been a contributing writer to National Public Radio's PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION and ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, and is co-creator of the animated web series POKER NIGHT on Icebox.com.

Corbett has also been an actor in the resident acting companies at the Guthrie Theater and the Berkshire Theater Festival, and has taught playwriting and screenwriting at Kenyon College in Ohio, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and many other universities and schools.

He's a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he earned an MFA in playwriting and screenwriting. Before that, he received a BA from Yale College. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he now lives in Minneapolis with his wife Virginia, their two children, and a feisty Jack Russell Terrier.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • RiffTrax Live: Manos - The Hands of Fate
  • RiffTrax Live: Birdemic - Shock and Terror
  • RiffTrax Live: Miami Connection
  • Rifftrax Live: Space Mutiny
  • RiffTrax: Julie and Jack
  • Rifftrax: Plan 9 from Outer Space
  • Planet of Dinosaurs
  • RiffTrax: Gammera the Invincible
  • Zombie AKA I Eat Your Skin

Known For

  • Meet Dave
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000
  • RiffTrax Live: Birdemic - Shock and Terror
  • RiffTrax Live: Miami Connection
  • RiffTrax Live: Sharknado
  • The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark
  • RiffTrax Live: Samurai Cop
  • The Film Crew: Killers from Space
  • RiffTrax Live: Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
  • RiffTrax Live: House on Haunted Hill
  • Tigtone
  • The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo
  • RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead
  • The Film Crew: The Giant of Marathon

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