Arthur Hiller, (November 22, 1923 – August 17, 2016) was a Canadian-American television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 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 films with screenwriters Paddy Chayefsky and Neil Simon. Among his other films were ''

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'' (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

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from 1989 to 1993 and president of the

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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,

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Early life and military service

Hiller was born in November 1923 in

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, Alberta, the son of Rose (Garfin) and Harry Hiller. His family was

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, and had emigrated from

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in 1912. He had two sisters, one thirteen years older and one eleven years older. His father operated a second-hand musical instruments store in Edmonton. Hiller recalled that when he occasionally traveled home while he was in college, the black people he met with "treated me like a king. Why? Because they loved my father. They told me that unlike other shopkeepers, he treated them like normal folks when they went to his store. He didn't look down on them". Although his parents were not professionals in theater or had much money, notes Hiller, they enjoyed putting on a Jewish play once or twice a year for the Jewish community of 450 people, mainly to keep in touch with their heritage. Hiller recalls they started up the Yiddish theater when he was seven or eight years old; he helped set carpenters build and decorate the sets. When he was eleven, he got a role acting as an old man, wearing a long beard and the payot. He says that "the love of theater and music and literature my parents instilled in me" contributed to his later choosing to direct TV and films. After he graduated from high school, he joined the

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in 1941 during

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. He served as a navigator on four-engine Handley Page Halifax heavy bombers on night missions over Nazi-controlled territory in Europe.http://www.dominion.ca/Downloads/sor_ArthurHiller.pdf After he returned from serving in the military, Hiller enrolled in and later graduated from University College, Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947. After Israel was declared a state in 1948, he and his wife unsuccessfully tried to join its army since it came under attack. He continued in college and received a

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degree in psychology in 1950. One of his first jobs after graduating was with Canadian radio directing various public affairs programs.

Directing career

Hiller began his career as a television director with the

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. NBC, one of the main networks in the United States, seeing his work in Canada, offered him positions directing television dramas. Over the next few years, his work for the small screen included episodes of ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Rifleman, Gunsmoke'', ''Naked City'', Perry Mason, and ''

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''.

1950s–1960s

Hiller directed his first film, ''

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'' (1957), the story of young couple eloping. This was followed by ''

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'' (1962), originally made for television but then released as a film, and then '' Miracle of the White Stallions'' (1963), a Disney film. With these first films, Hiller already showed competence in directing unrelated subjects successfully. He next directed a satirical anti-war comedy by screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky, ''

'' (1964), starring James Garner and

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. It was the first of two film collaborations with Chayefsky. The film, nominated for two Academy Awards, would establish Hiller as a notable Hollywood director and, according to critics, "earned him a reputation for flair with sophisticated comedy." ''

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'' critic Bosley Crowther wrote that Hiller's "brisk direction" of Chayefsky's script included some "remarkably good writing with some slashing irreverence." In 1964 Hiller also directed the first episode of the television series ''The Addams Family''. This was followed by the comedy ''

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'' (1965), with

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and Leslie Caron and ''Penelope'' (1966), starring Natalie Wood. In a move away from comedy, he directed the desert warfare drama, ''Tobruk'' (1967), starring

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and George Peppard, about a North African Campaign during

. The film was nominated for one Academy Award and showed Hiller capable of handling action films as well as comedy. Around the same time, he returned to comedy with '' The Tiger Makes Out'' (also 1967), starring Eli Wallach and

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, and featured

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's film debut. '' Popi'' (1969), recounts the tale of a Puerto Rican widower, starring Alan Arkin, struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood known as

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. Arkin was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

1970s

Hiller directed ''Love Story'' (1970), his best known work and most successful at the box-office. The film stars

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and Ali MacGraw in a romantic tragedy, and it was nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Director. The

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ranks it No. 9 in their list of the greatest love stories. Critic

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disagreed with some critics who felt the story was too contrived: "Why shouldn't we get a little misty during a story about young lovers separated by death? Hiller earns our emotional response because of the way he's directed the movie ..The movie is mostly about life, however, not death. And because Hiller makes the lovers into individuals, of course we're moved by the film's conclusion. Why not?"Ebert, Roger. ''Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews—1967–2007'', Andrews McMeel Publishing (2007) p. 443 The following year Hiller again collaborated with screenwriter

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in directing '' The Hospital'' (1971), a satire starring George C. Scott which has been described as being his best film. It is a black comedy about disillusionment and chaos within a hospital setting. Chayevsky received the

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. In directing the film, Hiller tried to create a sense of action and movement by keeping the camera mobile and using handheld cameras as much as possible. His goal was to have the camera reflect the chaos and confusion taking place in the hospital. "I've always liked that sort of realistic feel," he states. "I wanted the feeling that the audience was peeking around the corner." Hiller directed two comedy films in collaboration with playwright Neil Simon. The first film was ''The Out-of-Towners'' (1970), starring

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and Sandy Dennis, who were both nominated for Golden Globe awards for their roles. Their next collaboration was ''Plaza Suite'' (1971), starring Walter Matthau, which was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture. Both films were driven by intense comedy dialogue and were considered "crisply directed" by reviewers. Hiller returned to directing serious drama with '' The Man in the Glass Booth'' (1975), starring

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, in a screen adaptation of a stage play written by Robert Shaw. Schell played the role of a man trying to deal with questions of self-identity and guilt as a survivor of the

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during World War II. For his highly emotional role, Schell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award. Returning to comedy, Hiller directed ''Silver Streak'' (1976), starring Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh and Richard Pryor. The film was well received by critics and is rated No. 95 on the AFI's best comedy films. He directed another comedy, ''The In-Laws'' (1979), with

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and Alan Arkin, which was also a critical and commercial success.

1980s

Hiller directed the film '' Making Love'', which was released in February 1982, a story of a married man coming to terms with his homosexuality. ''Author! Author!'' (also 1982), starred

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. The following year Hiller directed ''Romantic Comedy'' (1983), starring Dudley Moore and

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. His next comedy, '' The Lonely Guy'' (1984), starred Steve Martin as a greeting card writer and was followed by ''

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'' (1984), a comedy-drama film starring Nick Nolte. ''Outrageous Fortune'' (1987) stars

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and

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. The film was successful at the box office, with Midler being nominated or winning various awards. The film was followed by ''

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'' (1989), another comedy again starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Pryor plays a blind man and Wilder a deaf man who work together to thwart a trio of murderous thieves.

1990s

The 1990s saw Hiller directing a number of films, most of which received negative or mixed reviews: '' Taking Care of Business'' (1990); ''

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'' (1992), a biographical film about

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, portrayed by

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; ''

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'' (1993) and ''Carpool'' (1996). In 1997, Hiller helmed the infamous flop '' An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn'', which wound up living up to its title when Hiller requested his name be removed from the picture – thus truly making it an

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film. Nine years later, when he was in his eighties, Hiller directed his last film, '' National Lampoon's Pucked'' (2006), starring rock star

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Influences

In an interview with journalist

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for '' The Film That Changed My Life'', Hiller states that the film '' Rome, Open City'' (1945) had had a strong influence on his career because he saw it right after leaving the military where he was a bomber navigator in the Canadian Air Force. The film is set during the Nazi occupation of Italy and shows the priesthood and the Communists teaming up against the enemy forces. Hiller commented, "You just get the strongest emotional feelings about what happened to people in Italy."Hiller, Arthur. Interview with Robert K. Elder. ''The Film That Changed My Life'', Chicago Review Press, 2011. p. 162 Hiller preferred his scripts to contain "good moral values," a preference which he says came from his upbringing. He wanted high quality screenplays whenever possible, which partly explains why he collaborated on multiple films with both Paddy Chayefsky and Neil Simon. Hiller explains his rationale:

Awards and honors

Hiller served as President of the

(DGA) from 1989 to 1993"In Memoriam: Arthur Hiller 1923–2016"
Directors Guild of America, August 17, 2016 DGA presented Hiller with the Robert B. Aldrich Award in 1999 and the DGA Honorary Life Member Award in 1993. In 1970 he received a DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for ''Love Story''. He was also a member of the National Film Preservation Board of the

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from 1989 to 2005 and President of the

from 1993 to 1997. He also served on the board of the National Student Film Institute. He received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony in recognition of his humanitarian, charitable and philanthropic efforts.Froug, William. ''How I Escaped from Gilligan's Island'', Univ. of Wisconsin Press (2005) p. 78 In 2002, he was honoured with a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the

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. Writer and producer William Froug said that "Hiller is that rare and hugely successful gentleman who has remained humble all his life." He received the

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(DFA) from the

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in June 1995. He received the

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(LL.D) from the

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in November 1995.

Personal life and death

In 1948, he married Gwen Pechet, who was also

; they had two children and two grandchildren. His wife died on June 24, 2016."Gwen Hiller, Wife of 'Love Story' Director Arthur Hiller, Dies at 92"
''The Hollywood Reporter'', 26 June 2016 They were married for 68 years. Hiller died almost two months later in Los Angeles on August 17, 2016, at the age of 92 from natural causes.

Filmography

*''

'' (1957) *'' Miracle of the White Stallions'' (1963) *'' The Wheeler Dealers'' (1963) *''

'' (1964) *''

'' (1965) *'' Penelope'' (1966) *''

Tobruk Tobruk or Tobruck (; grc, Ἀντίπυργος, ''Antipyrgos''; la, Antipyrgus; it, Tobruch; ar, طبرق, Tubruq ''Ṭubruq''; also transliterated as ''Tobruch'' and ''Tubruk'') is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near ...

'' (1967) *'' The Tiger Makes Out'' (1967) *'' Popi'' (1969) *'' The Out-of-Towners'' (1970) *''

Love Story Love Story or A Love Story may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Genres * Romance (love) ** Romance film ** Romance novel Films * ''Love Story'' (1925 film), German silent film * ''Love Story'' (1942 film), Italian drama film * ''Love ...

'' (1970), Best Director Oscar nomination *'' The Hospital'' (1971) *''

Plaza Suite ''Plaza Suite'' is a comedy play by Neil Simon. Plot The play is composed of three acts, each involving different characters but all set in Suite 719 of New York City's Plaza Hotel. The first act, ''Visitor From Mamaroneck'', introduces the a ...

'' (1971) *''

Man of La Mancha ''Man of La Mancha'' is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay '' I, Don Quixote'', which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cerva ...

'' (1972) *'' The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder'' (1974) *'' The Man in the Glass Booth'' (1975) *'' Silver Streak'' (1976) *''

W. C. Fields and Me ''W. C. Fields and Me'' is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine. The screenplay by Bob Merrill is based on a memoir by Carlotta Monti, mistress of actor W. C. Fields during the l ...

'' (1976) *''

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'' (1979) *'' The In-Laws'' (1979) *'' Making Love'' (1982) *'' Author! Author!'' (1982) *''

Romantic Comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typic ...

'' (1983) *'' The Lonely Guy'' (1984) *''

'' (1984) *'' Outrageous Fortune'' (1987) *''

'' (1989) *'' Taking Care of Business'' (1990) *''

'' (1991) *''

'' (1992) *'' Carpool'' (1996) *'' An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn'' (1997) (credited as

) *'' Pitch'' (1997) (as himself) *'' National Lampoon's Pucked'' (2006)

Notes

References

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