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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood
2014
as Self

Lunch
2012
as Himself
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
2009
as Self

Pucked
2006
Director
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)
illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel...

Speakeasy
2002
as Tobias Prappas
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
2000
as Evangelist
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
1998
as Judge
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
1998
as Self - Hollywood Director
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
1998
Thanks
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
1998
as Reverend Phillips
A Russian immigrant finds himself in bed with the mob after buying a sexual novelties shop.

An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
1998
Director
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
1997
as Self
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
1997
as Self
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
1997
as Self
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

Carpool
1996
Director
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
1994
as Bar Patron
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
1992
Director
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
1991
Director
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
1990
Director
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
1989
Director
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
1987
Director
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actre...

Teachers
1984
Director
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
1984
Director, Producer
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
1983
Director
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!
1982
Director
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
1982
Director
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
1980
as Dale 'Diz' Corbett
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
1979
Director
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

The In-Laws
1979
Director, Producer
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
1976
Director
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
1976
Director
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
1975
Director
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
1974
Director, Producer
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
1972
Director, Producer
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
1971
Director
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
1971
Director
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
1971
Director
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
1970
Director
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
1970
Director
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
1969
Director
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
1967
Director
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns ...

Tobruk
1967
Director
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
1966
Director
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
1966
Director
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
1964
Director
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
Behind the scenes look at the D-Day special effects created in filming The Americanization of Emily (1964).

The Wheeler Dealers
1963
Director
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
1963
Director
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
1957
Director
An unscrupulous criminal lawyer falls in love with a wealthy widow and becomes involved with her brother's disappearance and murder.

The Careless Years
1957
Director
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
1956
Director
A fictionalized account of the infamous massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand Creek by a militia unit led by an extremist Colonel.