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Arthur Hiller

 
Director: Arthur Hiller
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  • Born: Nov 22, 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
  • Occupation: Director, Actor
  • Active: '50s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: The Hospital, The Lonely Guy, The In-Laws
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Careless Years (1957)

Biography

After wartime service with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Edmontonian Arthur Hiller began his show business career in Canadian radio and television. In the mid-1950s, Hiller left the CBC for American television, directing such live anthologies as Playhouse 90 and such filmed weeklies as Alcoa/Goodyear Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Naked City. He directed his first theatrical film in 1957, moving on to such 1960s big-budgeters as The Americanization of Emily (1964), where he proved himself a superb technician with only a trace of personal style. In 1970, Hiller was fortunate enough to be in the director's chair for that year's biggest hit, Love Story, which earned him an Oscar nomination. Extremely successful for the past four decades, Arthur Hiller has continued to turn out such slick, efficient products as Silver Streak (1974), The In-Laws (1976), The Lonely Guy (1984) and The Babe (1992), works that were always as good as (but seldom better than) their scripts. One of Hiller's most admirable professional accomplishments was establishing a strong rapport with notoriously argumentative actor George C. Scott, whom Hiller directed in The Hospital (1971) and Plaza Suite (1971), and about whom Hiller wrote an article for the 1977 compendium Closeups: The Movie Star Book. In 1993, Hiller was appointed president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Arthur Hiller
Born 22 November 1923 (1923-11-22) (age 86)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Spouse(s) Gwen Hiller (1948-present)

Arthur Hiller, O.C. (born 22 November 1923) is a Canadian film director. His filmography includes 33 major studio releases, including the 1970 film Love Story.

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Early life

Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated from University College, University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1995.

Career

Hiller began his show business career in television for the CBC in Toronto in the 1950s, and was a successful television director before moving into films and Hollywood. Hiller served as President of the Directors Guild of America from 1989 to 1993 and President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1993 to 1997. He was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony in recognition of his humanitarian, charitable and philanthropic efforts.

In 2002, he was honoured with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[1]

Personal life

He and his wife Gwen have been married since 1948. They have two children and two grandchildren (Kellen Carpenter and Sienna Hiller).

Filmography

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Non-profit organization positions
Preceded by
Robert Rehme		 President of Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences
1993-1997		 Succeeded by
Robert Rehme
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Academy Awards Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Y. Frank Freeman (1956) · Samuel Goldwyn (1957) · Bob Hope (1959) · Sol Lesser (1960) · George Seaton (1961) · Steve Broidy (1962) · Edmond L. DePatie (1965) · George Bagnall (1966) · Gregory Peck (1967) · Martha Raye (1968) · George Jessel (1969) · Frank Sinatra (1970) · Rosalind Russell (1972) · Lew Wasserman (1973) · Arthur B. Krim (1974) · Jules C. Stein (1975) · Charlton Heston (1977) · Leo Jaffe (1978) · Robert Benjamin (1979) · Danny Kaye (1981) · Walter Mirisch (1982) · M. J. Frankovich (1983) · David L. Wolper (1984) · Charles “Buddy” Rogers (1985) · Howard W. Koch (1989) · Audrey Hepburn / Elizabeth Taylor (1992) · Paul Newman (1993) · Quincy Jones (1994) · Arthur Hiller (2001) · Roger Mayer (2005) · Sherry Lansing (2007) · Jerry Lewis (2009)
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Films directed by Arthur Hiller

The Careless Years (1957) • Miracle of the White Stallions (1963) • The Wheeler Dealers (1963) • The Americanization of Emily (1964) • Promise Her Anything (1965) • Penelope (1966) • Tobruk (1967) • The Tiger Makes Out (1967) • Popi (1969) • The Out-of-Towners (1970) • Love Story (1970) • The Hospital (1971) • Plaza Suite (1971) • Man of La Mancha (1972) • The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974) • The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) • Silver Streak (1976) • W.C. Fields and Me (1976) • The In-Laws (1979) • Nightwing (1979) • Making Love (1982) • Author! Author! (1982) • Romantic Comedy (1983) • The Lonely Guy (1984) • Teachers (1984) • Outrageous Fortune (1987) • See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) • Taking Care of Business (1990) • The Babe (1992) • Married to It (1993) • Carpool (1996) • An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) • National Lampoon's Pucked (2006)

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