Bill Porter
Known For: Acting
Biography
Bill Porter is an American translator of Chinese poetry and spiritual texts. He translates under the name Red Pine. His 1993 travelogue "Road to Heaven" detailed the surviving Chinese hermit tradition in the Chungnan Mountains and he has since appeared in several documentaries on the subject.
Filmography
2023
- Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation as Self / Red Pine
2015
- Hermits as Bill Porter
2009
- Cold Mountain: Han Shan as Self