Arthur Hiller

Filmmakers

Arthur Hiller, OC (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 made his made his feature film debut with The Careless Years (1957), with Dean Stockwell, Natalie Trundy, and John Larch. Other early films include Miracle of the White Stallions (1963), with Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, and Eddie Albert; The Wheeler Dealers (1963), with James Garner and Lee Remick; and The Americanization of Emily (1964), with Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell, and Keenan Wynn.

Films in the mid to late 1960s include Promise Her Anything (1965), with Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Bob Cummings, Wynn, Hermione Gingold, and Lionel Stander; Penelope (1966), with Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters, and Dick Shawn; Tobruk (1967), with Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, and Guy Stockwell; The Tiger Makes Out (1967), with Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson; and Popi (1969), with Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno.

Hiller received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for Love Story (1970), with Ali MacGraw, Ryan O’Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, and Tommy Lee Jones. He received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2002 Academy Awards ceremony in recognition of his humanitarian, charitable and philanthropic efforts. Other films in the early 1970s include The Out-of-Towners (1970), with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis; The Hospital (1971), with George C. Scott and Diana Rigg; Plaza Suite (1971), with Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, and Lee Grant; Man of La Mancha (1972), with with Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, and John Castle; and The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974), with Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Hershey, George Marshall, Lawrence Pressman, Albert Salmi, and Michael Cristofer.

Films in the mid to late 1970s include The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), with Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, and Pressman; Silver Streak (1976), with Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty, Clifton James, Ray Walston, Scatman Crothers, and Richard Kiel; W. C. Fields and Me (1976), with Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, Jack Cassidy, John Marley, and Bernadette Peters; Nightwing (1979), with Nick Mancuso, David Warner, and Kathryn Harrold; and The In-Laws (1979), with Peter Falk and Arkin.

Films in the 1980s include Making Love (1982), with Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, and Michael Ontkean; Author! Author! (1982), with Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Bob Dishy, and Alan King; Romantic Comedy (1983), with Dudley Moore, Mary Steenburgen, Frances Sternhagen, Janet Eilber, Robyn Douglas, and Ron Leibman; The Lonely Guy (1984), with Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, and Steve Lawrence; Teachers (1984), with Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Ralph Macchio, Judd Hirsch, Alan Garfield, Grant, Richard Mulligan, Royal Dano, Crispin Glover, Laura Dern, and Morgan Freeman; Outrageous Fortune (1987), with Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky, George Carlin, and Christopher McDonald; and See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), with Wilder, Richard Pryor, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Alan North, and Anthony Zerbe.

Later films include Taking Care of Business (1990), with Jim Belushi, Grodin, Anne De Salvo, Mako, Veronica Hamel, and Héctor Elizondo; Married to It (1991), with Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd, and Ron Silver; The Babe (1992), with John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Trini Alvarado, Bruce Boxleitner, and James Cromwell; Carpool (1996), with Tom Arnold, David Paymer, Reah Perlman, Kim Coates, Rachel Leigh Cook, and Steiger; An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997), with Eric Idle, O’Neal, Chuck D, Coolio, Stephen Tobolowsky, Sylvester Stallone, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jackie Chan; and National Lampoon’s Pucked (2006), with Jon Bon Jovi, Curtis Armstrong, Nora Dunn, and Cary Elwes.

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(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • The Careless Years (1957)
  • Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
  • The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
  • The Americanization of Emily (1964)
  • Promise Her Anything (1965)
  • Penelope (1966)
  • Tobruk (1967)
  • The Tiger Makes Out (1967)
  • Popi (1969)
  • The Out-of-Towners (1970)
  • Love Story (1970)
  • The Hospital (1971)
  • Plaza Suite (1971)
  • Man of La Mancha (1972)
  • The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974)
  • The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
  • Silver Streak (1976)
  • W. C. Fields and Me (1976)
  • Nightwing (1979)
  • The In-Laws (1979)
  • Making Love (1982)
  • Author! Author! (1982)
  • Romantic Comedy (1983)
  • The Lonely Guy (1984)
  • Teachers (1984)
  • Outrageous Fortune (1987)
  • See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
  • Taking Care of Business (1990)
  • Married to It (1991)
  • The Babe (1992)
  • Carpool (1996)
  • An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn (1997) – credited as Alan Smithee
  • Pitch (1997) – directed ed by Kenny Hotz & Spencer Rice – himself – documentary
  • National Lampoon’s Pucked (2006)