Arthur Hiller

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arthur Hiller, OC, was a Canadian-American television and film director, having directed over 33 films during his 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s he began directing films, most often comedies. He also directed dramas and romantic subjects, such as Love Story (1970), which was nominated for seven Oscars. Hiller collaborated on a number of films with screenwriters Paddy Chayefsky and Neil Simon. Among his other notable films were The Americanization of Emily (1964), Tobruk (1967), The Hospital (1971), The Out-of-Towners (1970), Plaza Suite (1971), The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), Silver Streak (1976), The In-Laws (1979) and Outrageous Fortune (1987). 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 in 2002. An annual film festival in Hiller's honor was held from 2006 until 2009 at his alma mater, Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Hiller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1923-11-22

Died: 2016-08-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1964	Action on the Beach	Self	0
2	1980	Revenge of the Stepford Wives	Dale 'Diz' Corbett	51
3	1994	Beverly Hills Cop III	Bar Patron	59
4	1997	Frank Capra's American Dream	Self	62
5	1997	Blacks and Jews	Self	60
6	1997	Pitch	Self	63
7	1998	Merchants of Venus	Reverend Phillips	68
8	1998	Jackie Chan: My Story	Self - Hollywood Director	62
9	1998	Land of the Free	Judge	53
10	2000	Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel	Evangelist	55
11	2002	Speakeasy	Tobias Prappas	40
12	2002	Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film	Self (uncredited)	0
13	2009	Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood	Self	0
14	2012	Lunch	Himself	40
15	2014	Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood	Self	0

Arthur Hiller

Film

Television