Bill Porter
Actor
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.
Known for
Acting4
- 2023Dancing with the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation as Self / Red Pine
- 2015Hermits as Bill Porter
- 2009Cold Mountain: Han Shan as Self
- 1994Searching for Hermits in China with Red Pine