Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller

1923-11-22 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 52 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Arthur Hiller, OC, was a Canadian-American television and film director, having directed over 33 films during his 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s he began directing films, most often comedies. He also directed dramas and romantic subjects, such as Love Story (1970), which was nominated for seven Oscars. Hiller collaborated on a number of films with screenwriters Paddy Chayefsky ...

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Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood

2014

as Self

Acting
Lunch

Lunch

2012

as Himself

4.0
Acting

For the past 40 years, a group of comedy writers and directors has gathered every other Wednesday for lunch - and other nourishment. These are the fab...

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

2009

as Self

Acting
Pucked

Pucked

2006

Director

4.0
Directing

Frank Hopper is a former lawyer, long-term loser and constant dreamer - and frankly, probably just not all that bright. When he receives a credit card...

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

2002

as Self (uncredited)

Acting

illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel...

Speakeasy

Speakeasy

2002

as Tobias Prappas

4.0
Acting

After being randomly brought together in a car accident, two strangers develop a friendship based on their shared relationship with a deaf man. This c...

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel

2000

as Evangelist

5.5
Acting

In 1970s Atlanta, a diminutive gay man tries to find succor from the small-town religion that filled him with self-loathing. He meets Miss Make-Do, wh...

Land of the Free

Land of the Free

1998

as Judge

5.3
Acting

A politician's campaign manager (Speakman) discovers that the candidate (Shatner) is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthro...

Jackie Chan: My Story

Jackie Chan: My Story

1998

as Self - Hollywood Director

6.2
Acting

Jackie Chan is one of the world's biggest action stars, famed for his wacky sense of humor, remarkable martial arts techniques, and willingness to per...

Jackie Chan: My Story

Jackie Chan: My Story

1998

Thanks

6.2

Jackie Chan is one of the world's biggest action stars, famed for his wacky sense of humor, remarkable martial arts techniques, and willingness to per...

Merchants of Venus

Merchants of Venus

1998

as Reverend Phillips

6.8
Acting

A Russian immigrant finds himself in bed with the mob after buying a sexual novelties shop.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn

1998

Director

3.9
Directing

Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and l...

Pitch

Pitch

1997

as Self

6.3
Acting

A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film i...

Blacks and Jews

Blacks and Jews

1997

as Self

6.0
Acting

This documentary attempts to go beyond the sensationalized media coverage and the stereotypes to examine several key conflicts from the point of view ...

Frank Capra's American Dream

Frank Capra's American Dream

1997

as Self

6.2
Acting

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Carpool

Carpool

1996

Director

5.1
Directing

A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick...

Beverly Hills Cop III

Beverly Hills Cop III

1994

as Bar Patron

5.9
Acting

When his boss is killed, Detroit cop Axel Foley finds evidence that the murderer had ties to a California amusement park called Wonder World. Returnin...

The Babe

The Babe

1992

Director

5.7
Directing

A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom an...

Married to It

Married to It

1991

Director

5.9
Directing

While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect...

Taking Care of Business

Taking Care of Business

1990

Director

6.3
Directing

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

1989

Director

6.7
Directing

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, ...

Outrageous Fortune

Outrageous Fortune

1987

Director

6.0
Directing

Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actre...

Teachers

Teachers

1984

Director

5.6
Directing

A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still canno...

The Lonely Guy

The Lonely Guy

1984

Director, Producer

6.3
Directing Producing

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedy

1983

Director

5.2
Directing

Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being ma...

Author! Author!

Author! Author!

1982

Director

5.9
Directing

A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, a...

Making Love

Making Love

1982

Director

7.0
Directing

A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.

Revenge of the Stepford Wives

Revenge of the Stepford Wives

1980

as Dale 'Diz' Corbett

5.1
Acting

A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. Ho...

Nightwing

Nightwing

1979

Director

4.7
Directing

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

The In-Laws

The In-Laws

1979

Director, Producer

6.7
Directing Producing

In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a ...

Silver Streak

Silver Streak

1976

Director

6.7
Directing

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no ...

W.C. Fields and Me

W.C. Fields and Me

1976

Director

7.8
Directing

In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields...

The Man in the Glass Booth

The Man in the Glass Booth

1975

Director

6.1
Directing

Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him wi...

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

1974

Director, Producer

5.2
Directing Producing

After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatric...

Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha

1972

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

In the 16th century, poet, playwright and part-time actor Miguel de Cervantes has been arrested, together with his manservant, by the Spanish Inquisit...

The Hospital

The Hospital

1971

Director

6.6
Directing

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospit...

Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite

1971

Director

6.1
Directing

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role...

Mean Justice

Mean Justice

1971

Director

7.0
Directing

Moreno (Bronson) is a tough ranch hand on the vast half million acre Garret Ranch. Rich in timber, gas, cattle and oil, the ranch is a major employer...

Love Story

Love Story

1970

Director

6.8
Directing

Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite...

The Out-of-Towners

The Out-of-Towners

1970

Director

6.7
Directing

George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.

Popi

Popi

1969

Director

6.1
Directing

Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he no...

The Tiger Makes Out

The Tiger Makes Out

1967

Director

4.6
Directing

During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns ...

Tobruk

Tobruk

1967

Director

6.3
Directing

In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which th...

Penelope

Penelope

1966

Director

5.6
Directing

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disgu...

Promise Her Anything

Promise Her Anything

1966

Director

3.7
Directing

A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is he...

The Americanization of Emily

The Americanization of Emily

1964

Director

6.7
Directing

American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged ...

Action on the Beach

1964

as Self

Acting

Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily (1964).

The Wheeler Dealers

The Wheeler Dealers

1963

Director

6.2
Directing

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He...

Miracle of the White Stallions

Miracle of the White Stallions

1963

Director

5.8
Directing

In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But ...

The Edge of Innocence

The Edge of Innocence

1957

Director

Directing

An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.

The Careless Years

The Careless Years

1957

Director

3.5
Directing

A high school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove, and, unable to stand the pressure, t...

Massacre at Sand Creek

Massacre at Sand Creek

1956

Director

4.0
Directing

A fictionalized account of the infamous massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek by a militia unit led by an extremist Colonel.