Craig Hill (born Craighill Fowler; March 5, 1926 – April 21, 2014) was an American film actor from

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Career

He began his film career as a contract star for

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beginning with ''

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''. He also appeared in

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's ''

Fixed Bayonets ''Fixed Bayonets!'' is a 1951 American war film written and directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Twentieth Century-Fox during the Korean War. It is Fuller's second film about the Korean War. In his motion-picture debut, James Dean appears br ...

'' (1951) and

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's ''

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'' as well as in a key role opposite

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in the 1951 crime drama ''

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''. After leaving Fox, he co-starred in Universal's ''

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'' (1954) and appeared in several American television shows. He is best known for co-starring in the

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'' from 1957 to 1960, playing "P.T. Moore". In the mid-1960s, he moved to

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and gained a new series of fans as a lead actor in several

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s beginning with ''

Hands of a Gunfighter ''Hands of a Gunfighter'' ( es, Ocaso de un pistolero, it, Il destino di un pistolero, also known as ''Hands of Gunman'') is a 1965 Spanish-Italian western film directed by Rafael Romero Marchent Rafael Romero Marchent (3 May 1926 – 13 Febr ...

'' (1965). He starred in several Euro Horror films as well, including ''The Bloodstained Shadow'' (1978) and ''The Monsters of Terror'' (1970).

Personal life/death

Actor

Ray Stricklyn Lewis Raymond Stricklyn (October 8, 1928 – May 14, 2002) was an American film actor, stage actor, television actor, soap opera star and publicist. His acting career took off with B-movie Westerns that placed his boyish good looks playing opp ...

says that he met Hill about Christmas 1955, and the two spent a year together in a homosexual relationship. Sticklyn says he broke up with Hill after he discovered Hill was seeing another man. In 1990, Hill wed Catalan fashion model and actress

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(born 1936), his co-star in the 1966 Spanish film ''

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''. Hill died on April 21, 2014, at the age of 88 from

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Filmography

References

External links

* 1926 births 2014 deaths American male film actors Male actors from Los Angeles American expatriates in Spain Male Spaghetti Western actors {{US-film-actor-1920s-stub