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William Bond Warren (born April 26, 1943), better known as Bill Warren, is an American film historian and critic, an authority on science fiction, horror and fantasy films.

Early life and education
Warren was born in North Bend, Oregon, and grew up in Gardiner. He attended Reedsport High School in Reedsport, Oregon, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Oregon and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

He became interested in science fiction films in the early 1950s. Discovering Famous Monsters of Filmland with its first issues in the late Fifties, he became a regular contributor throughout the magazine's years of Forrest J Ackerman's editorship.

Move to Los Angeles
In 1966 after graduating from the University of Oregon, Warren married Beverly Anne Truex and the couple moved to Los Angeles. As an assistant to Forrest J Ackerman, Warren met many major filmmakers-to-be also inspired by Ackerman, and he developed friendships with several.

Beverly and he became very active in the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and involved in many Los Angeles area science fiction conventions into the 1980s. He and his friend Allan Rothstein were on the committee organizing the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention in Anaheim, California. They wrote a murder mystery set at the convention, "Fandom Is a Way of Death;" all characters, except the detective, were based on real people attending. This was sold as a publication at the convention, with the solution to the case in a separate envelope. On the convention's last day, the murderer was revealed and took a bow.

Warren's short story "Death Is a Lonely Place" appeared in Worlds of Fantasy (no. 1, 1968). He also scripted for the James Warren (no relation) horror comics magazines Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella.

Books
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Warren assisted Walt Lee in publishing Lee's Reference Guide to Fantastic Films (Chelsea-Lee Books, 1972-74).

Warren was a regular contributor to Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide (begun in 1969, updated annually 1978-2014).

Warren's ''Keep Watching the Skies! American Science Fiction Movies of the Fifties'' (McFarland, 1982-86; reprinted in paperback 1997), was a massive survey of science fiction films released in the US from 1950 to 1962. A completely revised and expanded "21st Century" edition was released by McFarland in 2009.

Warren's Set Visits: Interviews with 32 Horror and Science Fiction Filmmakers (McFarland, 1997) covered five films, including Bram Stoker's Dracula and Jurassic Park.

At the request of film director Sam Raimi, Warren wrote The Evil Dead Companion (Titan Books, 2000; St. Martin's Press, 2001).

Film critic
During the 1980s, Warren was the film critic for the Simi Valley Enterprise newspaper in Simi Valley, California.

In 1989, he created the ShowBiz Roundtable for the online service GEnie to generate discussions about films and other aspects of show business. He seems to have been the first critic credentialed by the MPAA for online reviews. These reviews were archived in a GEnie Library, the first large film review database available online. On GEnie Warren also conducted live online interviews with film personalities. He eventually left the ShowBiz Roundtable, which continues today at the Delphi online service.

Television
In the 1990s for the French TV series Destination séries, he and film director William Rotsler produced segments surveying American television.

Warren occasionally contributes to supplemental material for DVDs.