Bill Heck is an American actor who has appeared on Broadway and in television shows, such as The Leftovers and The Old Man, and films, including in the role of Billy Knapp in the Coen Brothers' western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Off-Broadway, Heck starred in Horton Foote's epic The Orphans' Home Cycle, Angels in America with Buster Scruggs co-star Zoe Kazan, as well as Water by the Spoonful.
[6] At L.A. Outfest in 2013, Heck won the Grand Jury Award for Best Actor for his role in Pit Stop.
[7] Heck appeared as Billy Knapp in the vignette "The Gal Who Got Rattled", one of six separate stories of the American Wild West in the Coen Brothers-directed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
[8][9] To prepare for the role, Heck read The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck.