Bill Dawes
Biography
Bill Dawes is an American actor and stand-up comic. He graduated cum laude with an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton University and holds an MFA In acting from NYU. While living in New York, Bill starred in 3 Broadway plays and over a dozen Off-Broadway plays as well as appearing in over 50 films and television shows. As a comic, he has toured nationally as well as internationally with the USO and considers the Hollywood Laugh Factory his home club. He is best known for "Mo," "Alaska Daily," "City on a Hill," "Damages," "Before the Sun Explodes," "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and "Encounter" with Riz Ahmed. Bill tours nationally and internationally as a headlining comic and considers the Laugh Factory his home club.
Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

NCIS

Law & Order

Law & Order

S.W.A.T.

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Elementary

Rizzoli & Isles
All Movies (26)
- Operation Taco Gary's2026 · as Elder #2
- Christmas Couples Retreat2023 · as Jacob
- Woods Witch2023 · as Yourgei Jegmeov
- Jacques2023 · as Narrator
- Beautiful Violence2021 · as Chad
- Encounter2021 · as Kurt McKinley
- Shaman's Call2021 · as Shaman
- Gladys Brown2017 · as Silas Everett
- Before the Sun Explodes2016 · as Ken
- How to Seduce Difficult Women2009 · as Al
- I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell2009 · as Murphy
- Adam2009 · as Scottie
- Asylum Seekers2009 · as Alan
- One Night2007 · as Marc
- Saving Manhattan2005 · as Rollerblader
- Just for Kicks2003 · as Rudy
- EvenHand2002 · as Officer Rob Francis
- Born Loser2001 · as Carter
- Way Off Broadway2001 · as Ben DePaul
- Fiona1999 · as Harvey
- On the Q.T.1999 · as Andre
- Giving It Up1999 · as Pick-Up Man
- Too Tired to Die1998 · as Dante (uncredited)
- Pay to Die— · as Dominic
- Mistletoe Massacre— · as Nolan
- How to Kill Your Family On Christmas— · as Peter
All TV Shows (24)
- Lawmen: Bass Reeves2023 · as Joshua
- Alaska Daily2022 · as Dwight Barry
- The Rookie: Feds2022 · as Tom Lewis
- Mo2022 · as Bob Robinson
- Mo2022 · as Bob
- NCIS: Hawaiʻi2021 · as T.J. Shaw
- City on a Hill2019 · as Rick Dunleavy
- The Other Two2019 · as Billionaire
- S.W.A.T.2017 · as Gabriel
- Manhunt2017 · as Cadigan
- The Good Fight2017 · as Jason Hardy
- The Following2013 · as Captain Robert Tubbs
- Gotham Comedy Live2012 · as Self
- Elementary2012 · as Declan Boyle
- Rizzoli & Isles2010 · as Ronan Finnegan
- Damages2007 · as Customer
- Damages2007 · as Kevin Walker
- NCIS2003 · as Clayton Wills
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Ben Crowe
- The Beat2000 · as Peter Johnson
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Alex Ryan
- Sex and the City1998 · as Blonde Guy
- Law & Order1990 · as Thomas Cooper
- Law & Order1990 · as David Arkuss