Born in Scotland, William Crookshanks grew up in the circus as a trapeze artist before moving to
Australia at the age of 16. He started wrestling in Australia in 1967 and finally arrived in the
United States as
"Superstar" Bill Dundee in 1974.
Dundee made a name for himself in the
Memphis, Tennessee area where he regularly teamed with
Jerry Lawler and
Jimmy Valiant for years. Dundee & Lawler ventured to the
American Wrestling Association together in 1987 and captured the AWA World Tag Team Titles twice.
As a singles wrestler, he held the Southern Heavyweight Championship belt several times from roughly 1975-1985 and also had a successful team with
"Nature Boy" Buddy Landel that wreaked havoc in Tennessee.
Dundee had a brief run in the
NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions, Central States Wrestling and
Championship Wrestling from Florida in 1986 where he teamed with
Jimmy Garvin and feuded with
Sam Houston for the
NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship. He also briefly managed
The Barbarian and The MOD Squad while in those territories.
He also had a run in
World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s as
Sir William, the manager for
Lord Steven Regal.
Dundee is still active as of 2005 in Lawler's
Memphis Wrestling where he has been a heel and a baby-face. He was the proprietor of "Bill Dundee's Club" a topless entertainment club located at Exit 126 on Interstate 40, near the Tennessee River in West Tennessee. The club has not been in operation under Dundee's ownership (or under the name Dundee's) since early 2001. He frequently appears on Jackson, TN talk radio station WNWS 101.5 and on a talk show on the community-access cable channels in West Tennessee.
As of the summer of 2007 Bill Dundee has been providing added entertainment to a local dodgeball tournament brought to fruition by a local radio personality
George Bfor the benefit of charities around the Jackson, TN area. He has been playing for
NewsTalk's radio station against dodgeball teams such as the
Madison County Commissioners, the
Diamond Jaxx Staff, and the
Jackson Police Department just to name a few. The dodgeball games can be viewed at
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Dundee has a son who wrestles as "JC Ice",
Jamie Crookshanks.
