![]() ![]() He also loved Bronko Nagurski of the Chicago Bears. In particular, he idolized Stan Hack of the Chicago Cubs, whom he had seen at a game once. One night, after work was finished, he fell asleep in the patient's chair and died.īilly hated school, especially reading, but loved sports. In the book, Billy is born in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Highland Park, a northern suburb of Chicago, the only child of a barber.īilly's father was a Florinese immigrant who wanted to become a lawyer, immigrating to America at the age of 16 while on the boat, he met his future wife, but gambled all his money in the states, eventually working as a barber in Highland Park's least successful barbershop. In the 1987 film adaptation, he was portrayed by Fred Savage. ![]() William "Billy" Goldman (called the Grandson in the film) is a fictionalized version of William Goldman, the author of The Princess Bride.īilly is the actual narrator of the book, and is the main character in the book's prologue. ![]()
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