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Jack Hill (born January 28, 1933) is an American film director in the exploitation film genre. Several of Hill's later films have been characterized as feminist works.
Hill was born in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Mildred (née Pannill, b. February 1, 1907; death date n.a.), was a music teacher, and his father, Roland Everett Hill (February 5, 1895 – November 10, 1986), worked as a set designer and art director for First National Pictures and Warner Bros. on films including The Jazz Singer, Captain Blood, Action in the North Atlantic, and Captain Horatio Hornblower, and as well was an architect who designed the centerpiece Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland in California.
Hill attended UCLA, which he attended, he said, for "a couple of years" before leaving to get married and then returning to earn a degree in music. While a student, he played in a symphony orchestra that performed for the soundtracks of Doctor Zhivago and The Brothers Karamazov, and he arranged music for burlesque performers; through this he met comedian Lenny Bruce, who daughter Kitty Bruce would act in Hill's 1975 film Switchblade Sisters. He on to postgraduate studies at UCLA Film School, where instructor and former movie director Dorothy Arzner and encouraged Hill and his classmate and friend Francis Ford Coppola. Hill worked as a cameraman, a sound recorder (including on Coppola's student short "Ayamonn the Terrible"), and an editor on student films. His short "The Host" starred Sid Haig, an acting student at the Pasadena Playhouse under teacher Arzner, who introduced them; this marked the first of several films together.
Actors: Anik Rompre (actress), John E. McLenachan (actor), John E. McLenachan (writer), Kendrick de Lepper (composer), Kendrick de Lepper (editor), Angela Parent (actress), Francis Perron (editor), Francis Perron (producer), Francis Perron (director), Kenneth McDavitt (actor), Sig Shnellert (composer), Pete van den Elzen (composer),
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Morris Ruskin (producer), Michael Adante (producer), Michael Adante (writer), Michael Adante (director), Sean McIntyre (actor), Carolyn Bock (actress), Sammy Wright (actor), Catriona Warren (actress), Bec Asha (actress), Cassandra Magrath (actress), Michael F Cahill (actor), Michael Allen (composer), Damon Hunter (actor), Leah Hallis (producer), Carolyn Masson (actress),
Genres: Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Andrew N. Shearer (producer), Chris LaMartina (actor), Henrique Couto (actor), Andrew N. Shearer (actor), Andrew N. Shearer (director), Andrew N. Shearer (writer), Pamela Bloodworth (editor), Priscilla Lee Press-On (actress), Cara Lott (producer), Cara Lott (actress), Floyd Plimpton (actor), Beverly Bee Stung (actress), K.C. Rose (actress), Ginger Myers (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Short,Actors: Stacey T. Gillespie (actor), Sonny Burnette (actor), Cherokee Hall (actor), Chad Hundley (actor), Kayla Perkins (actress), Casey Miracle (actor), Katie Stewart (actress), David Gooslin (actor), David Gooslin (writer), David Gooslin (director), Zack Hall (actor), Michelle Perkins (actress), Robin Gooslin (actress), Vitelle Webb (actress), Robin Gooslin (producer),
Genres: Horror, Short, Thriller,Actors: Brian Cox (actor), Al Sharpton (actor), Andy Price (composer), Guy Nardulli (actor), Nadia Cameron-Blakey (actress), John Harding (actor), Jonathan Hewes (producer), Kellie Shirley (actress), Leigh Zimmerman (actress), Simon Chinn (writer), Simon Chinn (producer), Chuck Scarborough (actor), June Nevin (costume designer), Steven Crossley (actor), Daniel Percival (writer),
Plot: A docu-drama that reports on a (fictitious) attack made by terrorist using the disease of small pox to attack the world. Starting in New York the attack is ruthlessly carried out by one man travelling around the city infecting people as he goes. Using hindsight and video diaries the film looks back on the global impact of a silent attack that affected the world.
Keywords: death-of-child, disaster, disease, epidemic, germ-warfare, london-england, loss-of-son, mass-grave, new-york, number-in-titleActors: Mare Winningham (actress), Sean Astin (actor), Mary Kay Place (actress), k.d. lang (actress), Nanette Fabray (actress), Tippi Hedren (actress), Joe Pantoliano (actor), Lou Diamond Phillips (actor), Lisa M. Hansen (actress), Melissa Etheridge (actress), Jonathan Silverman (actor), Diedrich Bader (actor), Kiefer Sutherland (actor), C. Thomas Howell (actor), Lisa M. Hansen (producer),
Plot: Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. The next thing she knows, she has been drugged, kidnapped, made a redhead, tattooed, and wearing leather?!? Her captors seem to be the most inept crooks ever. They seem to have a plan, if only she could figure out why it involves her.
Keywords: boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, character-name-in-title, college-student, cult-film, cult-film, fbi, frozen-body, independent-film, kidnapping, mobActors: Elias Koteas (actor), Brandon Smith (actor), Burgess Meredith (actor), David Foster (producer), Phil Marshall (composer), Teri Garr (actress), Moshe Diamant (producer), Kevin Cooney (actor), Gene Hackman (actor), Lawrence Turman (producer), Susan Malerstein (miscellaneous crew), Dennis Stuart Murphy (producer), Will Taylor (miscellaneous crew), Will Taylor (actor), Becky Ann Baker (actress),
Plot: Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senile father-in-law "The General" and is helped by Jimmy, a former asylum inmate, and the good-natured Louise. The bar is rapidly losing money and Charlie wants to buy it cheaply before it becomes publicly known that a nearby bridge is to be built. Louise offers her savings to go into partnership with Floyd, but Floyd decides to sell when he is forced to pay his back taxes.
Keywords: absent-wife, arson, bar, bar-keeper, beer, bereavement, bridge, bus-driver, chess, claim-jumperActors: Scott Baker (actor), Taija Rae (actress), Rick Marx (writer), Jerry Butler (actor), Chuck Vincent (director), Chuck Vincent (editor), Chuck Vincent (writer), Chuck Vincent (actor), Samantha Fox (actress), Jack Wrangler (actor), Boomer Tibbs (actor), Carol Cross (actress), Brooke Fields (actress), Ian Shaw (composer), Craig Horrall (producer),
Genres: Adult,Actors: Donald Pleasence (actor), Denholm Elliott (actor), Tom Conti (actor), Dennis Potter (writer), Phoebe Nicholls (actress), Jon Costelloe (editor), Tony Wharmby (producer), Kenith Trodd (producer), Richard Loncraine (director), Kika Markham (actress), Alvar Liddell (actor), Bill Weston (actor), Gareth Forwood (actor), Simon Wallace (miscellaneous crew), Xenia Ager (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Mystery,Actors: John Christopher (miscellaneous crew), Samantha Fox (actress), Merle Michaels (actress), Annie Sprinkle (actress), Chuck Vincent (director), Chuck Vincent (editor), Roger Caine (actor), Eric Edwards (actor), Ron Hudd (actor), George Payne (actor), Vanessa del Rio (actress), Jack Wrangler (actor), Kurt Mann (actor), Adam De Haven (actor), Rikki O'Neal (actress),
Genres: Adult,