William M. Connor is a Producer and First Assistant Director with over thirty years of filmmaking experience. His wide ranging work includes films such as As Good As It Gets, Apollo 13, Salt, Frost/Nixon and The Bourne Legacy.

He worked with Director Ang Lee on Life Of Pi, which received four Academy Awards and received a Director's Guild of America award as an Assistant Director on Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard.

Connor has collaborated with Ron Howard on seventeen films including Cinderella Man, The Da Vinci Code and Thirteen Lives. His next project with Howard is the upcoming thriller, Eden.

Some of his early production work includes Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino and The American President starring Michael Douglas. Connor was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. and graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University.