Walter Hill
- Born: 10 Jan, 1940
An auteur in every sense of the word, director Walter Hill took the baton passed him by Sam Peckinpah and became a specialist in the archetypal male action movie, reveling in the artifice of the genre while at the same time straining against its constraints. Strongly influenced by John Ford and Howard Hawks (he once claimed "every film I've done has been a Western"), he allowed action to define character, believing "there is nothing more absurd than properly motivated characters," and concentrated on creating stunning visual spectacle through experiments in lighting, montage, composition, camera angles and the like. For Hill, violence in varying degrees of stylization provides the stamp of macho gesture, women are extensions of the male world, exhibiting testosterone to...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father : later a foreman at the Long Beach naval dockyard
- daughter Joanna Wesley Hill: born in May 1987
- daughter Maura Joan Hill: born in August 1988
- daughter Miranda Ellen Hill: born in December 1989
- wife Hildy Gottlieb: mother of three children with Hill; formerly an agent with ICM
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