FILM DIRECTOR

Arthur Hiller

1923 - 2016

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Arthur Hiller, (November 22, 1923 – August 17, 2016) was a Canadian 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 was directing films, most often comedies, but also dramas and romantic subjects, such as in Love Story (1970), which was nominated for seven Oscars. Hiller collaborated on films with screenwriters Paddy Chayefsky and Neil Simon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Hiller has received more than 767,893 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Arthur Hiller is the 438th most popular film director (up from 498th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Canada (up from 151st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Canadian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Arthur Hiller ranks 438 out of 2,041. Before him are Takashi Miike, Walter Lantz, Bo Widerberg, Delmer Daves, Yuri Norstein, and Ariane Mnouchkine. After him are Thomas Vinterberg, Jacques Tourneur, Louis Feuillade, Bertrand Blier, René Laloux, and Don Bluth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Arthur Hiller ranks 131. Before him are Judith Kerr, Bert Kaempfert, Wes Montgomery, Elisabeth Becker, Álvaro Mutis, and Carl Djerassi. After him are Joseph Heller, Estelle Getty, Lucía Hiriart, Erroll Garner, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, and Mario Brega. Among people deceased in 2016, Arthur Hiller ranks 141. Before him are Fredrik Barth, Neville Marriner, Maurice White, Loris Francesco Capovilla, Gordie Howe, and Roger Y. Tsien. After him are Chus Lampreave, Piet de Jong, Anker Jørgensen, Silvana Pampanini, Trifon Ivanov, and Zdravko Tolimir.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Arthur Hiller ranks 131 out of 1,622. Before him are William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874), Lorne Greene (1915), John Stanley Plaskett (1865), William Osler (1849), Evangeline Lilly (1979), and Gordie Howe (1928). After him are Ian Stevenson (1918), Joseph Wiseman (1918), Katheryn Winnick (1977), Louis Riel (1844), Rocky Johnson (1944), and Gil Evans (1912).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Arthur Hiller ranks 7. Before him are James Cameron (1954), David Cronenberg (1943), Norman Jewison (1926), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Denis Villeneuve (1967), and Jack L. Warner (1892). After him are Ted Kotcheff (1931), Denys Arcand (1941), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Allan Dwan (1885), Mark Robson (1913), and Paul Haggis (1953).

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Filmography

See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Director
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?
May 12th 19896.7 / 10
Love Story
Director
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
Dec 16th 19706.8 / 10
The Addams Family
Director
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
8.051 / 10