1. Jack Hill was born on January 28,1933 and is an American filmmaker, known for his work in the exploitation genre.
13 Facts About Jack Hill
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Jack Hill was an early associate of Francis Ford Coppola and Roger Corman, and worked on many films distributed by American International Pictures during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Jack Hill is credited with helping cultivate the careers of actors Pam Grier, Sid Haig, and Ellen Burstyn.
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Jack Hill was born January 28,1933, in Los Angeles, California.
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Jack Hill attended UCLA, which he attended, he said, for "a couple of years" before leaving to get married and then returning to earn a degree in music.
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Jack Hill went on to postgraduate studies at UCLA Film School, where instructor and former movie director Dorothy Arzner encouraged Hill and his classmate and friend Francis Ford Coppola.
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Jack Hill worked as a cameraman, a sound recorder, and an editor on student films.
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Jack Hill went on to work with Coppola on several of Coppola's early movies, including producer Roger Corman's 1963 movie The Terror.
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Jack Hill added 20 minutes to 1960's Wasp Woman for its eventual television syndication release, shooting without access to any original cast-member.
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Jack Hill's discoveries include Pam Grier, who starred in four of his films from The Big Doll House through Foxy Brown; Sid Haig, who acts in most of Jack Hill's films, beginning with Spider Baby; and Ellen Burstyn, who starred in Pit Stop.
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Jack Hill's student film The Host was a partial influence on former classmate Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.
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Jack Hill recalled in a 2000s interview that when he made The Host,.
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The moving image collection of Jack Hill is held at the Academy Film Archive.