Bill

What really happened in Shakespeare’s “lost years”? Bill tells the story of a hopeless lute on a mission to follow his dreams and write a play for the notoriously hard to please Queen Elizabeth.


Director Richard Bracewell
Cast Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas
Production Company BBC Films, Cowboy Films, Punk Cinema
Year 2015
Filming location(s) North Yorkshire

Bolton Castle in North Yorkshire

Uni-versal Extras was an extras agency for Bill (2015), a BBC comedy feature film.

The company supplied background artistes to play Tudors for filming at Bolton Castle, a 14th Century castle in the picturesque Yorkshire Dales.

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