Jerome Hill

Biography

Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist. He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. His 1950 documentary Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Albert Schweitzer. In addition to making films, he was a painter and composer. His last film, the autobiographical Film Portrait (1973), was added to the National Film Registry in 2003. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerome Hill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Directed

1. La cartomancienne (1932) — Director
2. Death in the Forenoon (1966) — Director
3. The Canaries (1969) — Director
4. Albert Schweitzer (1957) — Director
5. Film Portrait (1972) — Director
6. Grandma Moses (1950) — Director
7. The Magic Umbrella (1965) — Director
8. The Sand Castle (1961) — Director
9. Open the Door and See all the People (1964) — Director
10. Lamp Unto My Feet (1948) — Director
11. Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum (1991) — Director
12. C. G. Jung at Bollingen Tower Retreat (1951) — Director
13. Merry Christmas (1969) — Director
14. The Artist's Friend (1968) — Director
15. Cassis (1950) — Director
16. Schweitzer and Bach (1965) — Director
17. Ski Flight (1938) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) — Self
2. Hallelujah the Hills (1963) — Convict I
3. Film Portrait (1972) — Himself
4. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
5. Galaxie (1966) — Self
6. Notes for Jerome (1978) — Self
7. 365 Day Project (2007) — Self
8. Cassis (1950) — Narrator / Jerome
9. Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum (1991) — Himself