Bill Lancaster

William Henry Lancaster was an American film screenwriter born in Los Angeles County, California on November 17th, 1947. Bill's only contribution to the horror genre was writing the screenplay for John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi/horror classic, The Thing. The script adapts the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr. and was also loosely based on the script from the 1951 sci-fi film The Thing from Another World by Howard Hawks and Christian Nyby.

Bill Lancaster suffered a fatal heart attack in Los Angeles, California on January 4th, 1997 and died at the age of 49.

Other works

 * Bill Lancaster is also known for creating the 1976 family/comedy sports film The Bad News Bears as well as it's subsequent sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training and The Bad News Bears in Japan as well as The Bad News Bears television spin-off series.