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Mr. Bill in New Orleans

A cardboard cutout of Mr. Bill with arms raised stands in a French Quarter street, with a military Humvee and balconied buildings in the background.

New Orleans native Walter Williams is best known for having created Mr. Bill, the clay character that first appeared in a series of short films during the early years of NBC's Saturday Night Live in the mid-1970s. Following years of work in Los Angeles, Williams began in recent years to spend a great deal of time in New Orleans. He has created several environmental and historical documentaries as an independent producer. Some of his post-Katrina documentary work can be viewed via the following page on the official Mr. Bill website:

http://www.mrbill.com/NOReturns.html

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“Mr. Bill in New Orleans,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/12583.