Arthur Hiller

Biography

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 Arth…

Directed

1. See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989) — Director
2. Love Story (1970) — Director
3. The Addams Family (1964) — Director
4. Silver Streak (1976) — Director
5. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Director
6. Taking Care of Business (1990) — Director
7. The Babe (1992) — Director
8. The Lonely Guy (1984) — Director
9. The Out-of-Towners (1970) — Director
10. Perry Mason (1957) — Director
11. The In-Laws (1979) — Director
12. Outrageous Fortune (1987) — Director
13. Author! Author! (1982) — Director
14. Gunsmoke (1955) — Director
15. The Hospital (1971) — Director
16. Carpool (1996) — Director
17. The Americanization of Emily (1964) — Director
18. Teachers (1984) — Director
19. Man of La Mancha (1972) — Director
20. Tobruk (1967) — Director
21. An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn (1998) — Director
22. Plaza Suite (1971) — Director
23. The Rifleman (1958) — Director
24. Nightwing (1979) — Director
25. Making Love (1982) — Director
26. Married to It (1991) — Director
27. The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) — Director
28. Romantic Comedy (1983) — Director
29. Penelope (1966) — Director
30. The Wheeler Dealers (1963) — Director
31. Popi (1969) — Director
32. Miracle of the White Stallions (1963) — Director
33. Route 66 (1960) — Director
34. Thriller (1960) — Director
35. Pucked (2006) — Director
36. Ben Casey (1961) — Director
37. Naked City (1958) — Director
38. The Third Man (1959) — Director
39. Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1956) — Director
40. The Detectives (1959) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Beverly Hills Cop III (1994) — Bar Patron
2. The Oscars (1953) — Self
3. Jackie Chan: My Story (1998) — Self - Hollywood Director
4. Pitch (1997) — Self
5. Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980) — Dale 'Diz' Corbett
6. Land of the Free (1998) — Judge
7. Speakeasy (2002) — Tobias Prappas
8. Frank Capra's American Dream (1997) — Self
9. Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel (2000) — Evangelist
10. Merchants of Venus (1998) — Reverend Phillips
11. Film '72 (1971) — Self
12. Blacks and Jews (1997) — Self
13. Lunch (2012) — Himself
14. Action on the Beach (1964) — Self
15. Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002) — Self (uncredited)
16. Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009) — Self
17. Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood (2014) — Self