Arthur Hill
Also Known As: Arthur Edward Spence Hill
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arthur Edward Spence Hill (August 1, 1922 – October 22, 2006) was a Canadian actor best known for appearances in British and American theater, movies and television. He attended the University of British Columbia and continued his acting studies in Seattle, Washington. Born in Melfort, Saskatchewan, Hill served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II and attended the University of British Columbia, where he studied law but was lured to the stage. Hill made his Broadway debut as Cornelius Hackl in the 1957 revival of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker. In 1963 he won the Tony Award for Best Dramatic Actor for his portrayal of George in the original Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (opposite Uta Hagen). His other Broadway credits include Ben Gant in the original production of Ketti Frings's Look Homeward, Angel (1957), The Gang's All Here (1959), All the Way Home (1960), Something More! (1964), and More Stately Mansions (1967). His most recognizable film portrayal was that of Dr. Jeremy Stone in the film adaptation of Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain (1971). Hill's other film work included roles in Harper (1966), The Chairman (1969), Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite (1975) and Futureworld (1976), " A Little Romance" (1979), and he narrated the film version of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983). Arguably, Hill's most famous acting role was that of lawyer Owen Marshall, the lead role in the 1971-1974 TV series Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law. He appeared on many other series, including CBS's The Reporter, a 1964 drama starring Harry Guardino. He appeared as a guest star in the pilot episode of Murder, She Wrote in 1984, returning to that same role in an episode in 1990. This would turn out to be his last appearance in film. He died in a Pacific Palisades, California nursing home, aged 84, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Hill (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: August 01, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 22, 2006
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Penny Princess
Overview: A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-24
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The Andromeda Strain
Overview: When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Futureworld
Overview: Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving at the park, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-08-13
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The Amateur
Overview: A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-11
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The Killer Elite
Overview: Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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Harper
Overview: Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Overview: Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be known as The Sundance Kid. This is the 'prequel' of how they met, their first clumsy robberies, the heroic dangers that abound them together, the secret that nearly tore them apart, and the impossible train heist that made them notorious for life. Saddle up and ride with the showdowns, shootouts, bad guys and good times in the days before the fame when fun was the name of the game.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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One Magic Christmas
Overview: Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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Petulia
Overview: Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David, whose father is a powerful society figure. As Petulia and Archie's feelings for each other grow, they must decide what it is they truly want.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-10
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Prototype
Overview: An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-07
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The Ugly American
Overview: An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-02
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Tomorrow's Child
Overview: The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-22
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Overview: William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-23
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Moment to Moment
Overview: When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-27
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In the Cool of the Day
Overview: After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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The Deep Blue Sea
Overview: A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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The Young Doctors
Overview: An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Angel Dusted
Overview: Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family is forced to wrestle with the crisis.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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The Guardian
Overview: The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-20
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The Glacier Fox
Overview: Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles a year in the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, where the freezing winters are long and the mild summers short. After Flep defeats another male fox to become Leila's lifelong partner, they mate and raise a litter of five kits. With their family complete, the group must contend with human interference in their habitat, such as chicken farms and snowmobiles, and struggle against the debilitating cold of winter. The animals experience both triumph and tragedy, as the law of this harsh land proves – only the strong survive.
Genres: Family Documentary Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-15
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Dirty Tricks
Overview: A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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Death Be Not Proud
Overview: Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-04
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd
Overview: The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-25
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The Golden Handshake
Overview: Arthur Hill stars in the CBC-TV drama The Golden Handshake, filmed in Toronto. Play concerns the plight of an unemployed executive. With Hill are Norman Allin, and Ron Weyman. TV Movie, 1973
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Tell Me My Name
Overview: Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption was a secret which now threatens to destroy the entire family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-20
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Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Overview: Based on the true story of Morris Frank and the first U.S. Seeing Eye Dog, Buddy.
Genres: Drama History Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-07
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A Little Romance
Overview: Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebirds team up with eccentric pickpocket Julius to run away to Venice, where, according to legend, a couple who kiss under the Bridge of Sighs will stay together forever.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Making Love
Overview: A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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The Champ
Overview: Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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Scarlet Thread
Overview: Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-01
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I Was a Male War Bride
Overview: After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-26
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The Chairman
Overview: An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-25
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Don't Let the Angels Fall
Overview: The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Overview: In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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The Return of Frank Cannon
Overview: Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a suicide, but which smells like murder.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Ordeal
Overview: Left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-30
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Rabbit, Run
Overview: Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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The Other Man
Overview: The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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Churchill and the Generals
Overview: The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-23
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Murder in Space
Overview: Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.
Genres: Mystery Crime Science Fiction TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-28
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Christmas Eve
Overview: Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun
Overview: A priest is murdered and the main suspect is a nun.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-29
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The Desperate Hours
Overview: The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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A Day to Remember
Overview: A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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The Undefeated
Overview: Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Atta Girl, Kelly!
Overview: Follows the adventures of a rambunctious German Shepard being trained to become a seeing-eye dog and how she changes the lives of three masters – Danny, the boy who raises her, Matt, Kelly's trainer, and Evan Clayton, the blind owner who thinks she may never be good enough for him. Homesick for Danny, Kelly keeps running away and there's doubt that she'll ever be a guide dog. Will Kelly be able to fulfill her destiny?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-05
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Salute the Toff
Overview: The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-02
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Overview: In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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Intimate Agony
Overview: Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this personal tragedy. A despicable real estate tycoon played by Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is determined to keep the scandal from the press, thus protecting his investment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-21
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Human Interest Story
Overview: Newspaperman Bill Everett is told by his editor to go to the bar across the street and interview a man who claims to be a Martian.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-24
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The Man Who Found the Money
Overview: A teacher reports to the police that he found $92,000 in a clip, amid claims that $10,000 of the money is missing.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-27
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A Fine Mess
Overview: Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-08
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