George Roy Hill

Born December 20, 1921· New York City, New York, USA

† Died December 27, 2002

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Emerging from a well-to-do Minneapolis family, he studied music at Yale under Paul Hindemith, earned a master’s in literature and music at Trinity College Dublin, and obtained a pilot’s licence at sixteen, experiences that later flavored his filmmaking. After early work as a reporter, stage actor and television writer, Hill moved into cinema, directing the light-hearted The World of Henry Orient (…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources