''Bill'' is a 1981 American made-for-television biographical

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starring Mickey Rooney and Dennis Quaid based on the life of Bill Sackter. The film was broadcast on CBS on December 22, 1981. Mickey Rooney won an Emmy Award and Golden Globe for his performance, and the film also received a Golden Globe for Best TV Film. A sequel, '' Bill: On His Own'', was released in 1983. Writer/filmmaker

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, portrayed by Dennis Quaid, based the story off of his real life experiences with Sackter, and later became his legal guardian. Sackter also served as a partial inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbitt in Morrow's screenplay for the 1988 film ''

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Bill is a man with an intellectual disability in his 60s. He ventures out into the world for the first time after spending most of his life at Grandville, a dreary inner city institution in

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, since age seven (when his mother sent him there). Bill is taken in by a kind family and learns what it means to love for the first time in his life.

Cast

* Mickey Rooney - Bill Sackter * Dennis Quaid -

* Largo Woodruff - Beverly Morrow *

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- Marge Keating *

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- Dr. Tom Walz * Kathleen Maguire - Florence Archer

References

External links

''The Bill Sackter Story'' official website
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