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Guarnere wrote Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story with long-time friend Edward "Babe" Heffron and journalist Robyn Post in 2007. Guarnere was portrayed in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Frank John Hughes.
Guarnere enlisted in the U.S. Army on 31 August 1942 and was assigned to Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in the Mortar Squad of 2nd Platoon. He went through rough training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia under Captain Herbert Sobel.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries “Band of Brothers,” has died. He was 90. His son, William Guarnere Jr., confirmed Sunday that his father died at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
William Guarnere, a World War II veteran depicted in HBO’s “Band of Brothers” miniseries, died on Saturday night. He was 90. “Wild Bill,” as he’d come to be known in combat, was rushed to...
Frank John Hughes (born November 11, 1967) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his portrayals of "Wild Bill" Guarnere in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, Tom Fox in Catch Me If You Can, Tim Woods in 24, and Walden Belfiore in The Sopranos. [1]
Band of Brothers: William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron. Veterans’ Day. The World War II adventures of two South Philly vets are being told in the Spielberg/Hanks...
The film was postponed and in the interim, he was cast in Band of Brothers (2001) where he had two months to lose the weight in order to play a 17-year-old Wild Bill Guarnere. He went through a brutal routine of fasting and running 6-8 miles a day.
Actor John Frank Hughes talks about the challenge of playing Wild Bill Guarnere in the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers. Hughes was at a 2011 fundraising eve...
William J. “Wild Bill” Guarnere, who was popularized by the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers, died March 8 at the age of 90. He was rushed to Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia early Saturday and died that evening of a ruptured aneurysm.
Information, interviews, photos and more for William Guarnere played by on the HBO original program Band Of Brothers - Official Website for the HBO Series