Bill Blanchard

A Lansing kid who graduated from Everett High School and Michigan State University, Bill Blanchard went on to the prestigious Cinema Studies program at the University of Southern California in 1967, the same year another now famous applicant was rejected-Steven Spielberg. After working on feature films in California and Alaska, Bill returned to Michigan, where he taught film production at Lansing Community College for over thirty years. Now retired, Bill lives with his wife Millie in Lansing,...See more

A Lansing kid who graduated from Everett High School and Michigan State University, Bill Blanchard went on to the prestigious Cinema Studies program at the University of Southern California in 1967, the same year another now famous applicant was rejected-Steven Spielberg. After working on feature films in California and Alaska, Bill returned to Michigan, where he taught film production at Lansing Community College for over thirty years. Now retired, Bill lives with his wife Millie in Lansing, where they tutor first-graders in reading at their neighborhood elementary school. See less