George Roy Hill, 1921-2002 - News - Brief Article

George Roy Hill died Friday, December 27 2002 at his abiding-place in Manhattan due to complications from Parkinson's disease. Hill is best known for his-films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973) the latter of which won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.

Born in Minneapolis, Hill went upon to study music at Yale University and on graduating, enlisted in the Marines as a pilot. When his tour of what one ought to do ended, he studied literature at Trinity corporation in Dublin, Ireland, then mov back to the U He began performing as an actor off-Broadway and then with a Shakespearian touring company. Hill get backed to active duty during the Korean War, one time again as a pilot, and extremityed his military career at the rank of Major. He began writing and directing for television with the semi-autobiographical My Brother's Keeper and won numerous awards in his field. Returning to Broadway in 1957 Hill directed a series of felicitous plays, including Tennessee Williams' A Period of Adjustment, which was also his Hollywood directorial first appearance casting Jane Fonda in her first staring part Hill was able to combine his delight in of literature with that of film when he adapted and directed Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic (1965) James Michener's Hawaii (1966) Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Fiv e (1972) John Irving's The World According to Garp (1982) and John LeCarre's The Little Drummer Girl (1984) In 1988 Hill directed his last film, droll Farm, and taught at Yale University for the remainder of his career.

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