William "Bill The Butcher" Cutting is the main antagonist of the 2002 Miramax/Touchstone film Gangs of New York. He is known throughout the setting as the infamously authoritarian and manipulative leader of the Natives gang as well as becoming the arch-nemesis of Amsterdam Vallon, the son of Bill's former longtime rival "Priest" Vallon. The character Bill is based on real life gang lord William Poole.