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Jack Hill is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Second Unit Director, Director of Photography, Editor and Additional Writing American born on 28 january 1933 at Los Angeles (USA)

Jack Hill

Jack Hill
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Nationality USA
Birth 28 january 1933 (91 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Jack Hill (born January 28, 1933) is a U.S. film director, noted for his work in the exploitation film genre. Despite this, several of Hill's later films have been characterized as feminist works.

Quentin Tarantino described Jack Hill as “The Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking” in his introduction to the film Switchblade Sisters which his company Rolling Thunder Pictures re-released to cinemas and on DVD. Tarantino has also described Hill as “really great... a really, really talented man... I'm a big fan of his work”. Hill is now considered a living legend of the American exploitation film. His discoveries include Pam Grier (who starred in four of his films - from The Big Doll House through to Foxy Brown), Sid Haig (who acts in most of Hill's classics, including Spider Baby) and Ellen Burstyn (who starred in Pit Stop).

Hill was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Mildred (née Pannill), was a music teacher and his father, Roland Everett Hill, worked as a set builder for film studios and was an architect.

A full biography of his work, in which Hill was closely involved, is entitled Jack Hill: The Exploitation and Blaxploitation Master, Film by Film. It is written by British critic and documentarian Calum Waddell.

Usually with

Roger Corman
Roger Corman
(12 films)
Sid Haig
Sid Haig
(9 films)
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
(15 films)
Stan Laurel
Stan Laurel
(13 films)
Jack Hill
Jack Hill
(16 films)
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Filmography of Jack Hill (46 films)

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That Guy Dick Miller, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Dick Miller, Allan Arkush, Belinda Balaski, Roger Corman, Meiert Avis, Joe Dante
Roles Himself
Rating73% 3.6754853.6754853.6754853.6754853.675485
The documentary surveys the life and acting career of Dick Miller, who has performed in over 170 roles in various films and television shows as a character actor. It features several interviews, as well as footage from many of Miller's performances.
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Roger Corman, Colleen Camp, John Landis, Sid Haig, R. Lee Ermey, Joe Dante
Roles Self
Rating72% 3.640023.640023.640023.640023.64002
Des femmes plantureuses, des monstres mutants et des agents secrets nains… On trouvait tout cela dans les films de genre philippins des années 70 et 80. Envahissant les drive-ins du monde entier, les Philippines sont devenues un eldorado pour les réalisateurs de films dits « d'exploitation », alliant une main d'œuvre bon marché, un cadre exotique et une règlementation inexistante en matière de santé et de sécurité. Ce documentaire retrace l'histoire d'un genre sans scrupules, sans scénarios, sans frontières et - plus souvent que jamais - sans vêtements…
I Pass for Human, 1h42
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Vampires in film
Actors Mary Woronov, Joshua Cox, John Diehl, Jack Hill
Roles Azami's Father
Rating56% 2.8333252.8333252.8333252.8333252.833325
I Pass for Human follows the downward spiral of Jane (Eleanor Whitledge) following the heroin overdose and death of her boyfriend, Dax (Bryan Small). Jane soon finds herself using heroin herself to cope with the pain of mourning, as well as the shock of haunting visions of Dax following her. Finding heroin alone inadequate, in short order she replaces Dax with the company of new beau Rick (Josh Coxx). Not only is Rick a heroin addict, but he also has a dead significant other, Azami, whose jealousy apparently follows him from beyond the grave. The film plays on the conceit that heroin addicts escape death; in I Pass for Human, heroin leaves its users never quite dead, yet never quite alive.
Mooching Through Georgia, 19minutes
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Buster Keaton, Monte Collins, Lynton Brent, Bud Jamison, Ned Glass, Jack Hill
Roles Soldier
Rating62% 3.140223.140223.140223.140223.14022
Keaton plays an American Civil War veteran named Homer Cobb, who tells his story of being a Kentucky youth who enlisted in the Confederate Army, but discovered that his brother, Cyrus Cobb (Monte Collins) joined the Union Army. Homer gets captured but Cyrus frees him. Cyrus is captured by the Confederate army but Homer, in turn, frees him. Homer uses all his wits and a few short logs of wood to save his town.
Divot Diggers
Directed by Robert F. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors George McFarland, Carl Switzer, Jack Hill, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Billy Bletcher, Darla Hood
Rating68% 3.4218353.4218353.4218353.4218353.421835
The action takes place at an expansive California golf course, where the gang merrily play their own ragtag version of golf with makeshift clubs. When the course's regular caddies quit en masse, the desperate caddy master hires the gang members as replacements. The kids—and their gibberish-spouting pet chimpanzee—proceed to drive an adult foursome crazy, then put the finishing touch on an imperfect day by accidentally commandeering a lawn-mowing tractor.
Tit for Tat, 19minutes
Directed by Charley Rogers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Mae Busch, Baldwin Cooke, James C. Morton
Rating74% 3.7363353.7363353.7363353.7363353.736335
Laurel and Hardy establish an electrical goods store next door to Charlie Hall's grocery store. Hall, still sulking and suspicious from their previous encounter with the liquor-spiked well-water in Them Thar Hills, mistakenly thinks that Hardy is making advances towards his wife (Mae Busch), and destroys a few items in Stan and Ollie's shop. Stan and Ollie leave their shop, without closing their door, to wreak havoc in Hall's grocery; while they are there, a shoplifter (Bobby Dunn) removes items from their store, taking more and more as their confrontations with Hall escalate (at first he merely carries the items out by hand a few at a time, but then, having come and gone unhindered several times, boldly returns with a wheelbarrow). A policeman eventually comes and straightens out the brouhaha, but when Laurel and Hardy return to their store, there's nothing left: the shoplifter has returned a final time with a huge moving-van, and taken everything away.
Busy Bodies, 19minutes
Directed by Lloyd French
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Tiny Sandford, Jack Hill, Jack Hill
Roles Shop Worker
Rating76% 3.8405353.8405353.8405353.8405353.840535
Stan and Ollie arrive in high spirits for their new jobs at the sawmill (Laurel operates a phonograph installed in the car as a kind of primitive "radio"). After walking into planks of wood Stan traps Ollie's hands in a window frame. After freeing him they trick a shop worker (Charlie Hall) into smoking despite a "No Smoking" sign. Stan then tears a strip off Ollie's pants with a plane and in the resulting 'tit for tat' dips a paintbrush in glue and sticks it onto Ollie's chin. Finding it is not possible to pull it off he prepares like a barber and shaves it with a plane. Ollie then gets propelled through a ventilator duct and out of an attic vent port.
The Chimp
The Chimp (1932)
, 25minutes
Directed by James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Circus films, Films about lions, Films about apes, Buddy films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Gilbert, James Finlayson, Bobby Burns, Jack Hill
Rating67% 3.392753.392753.392753.392753.39275
The comedy duo are working at the circus. They first appear in the Pantomime horse and then as assistants to Destructo, a strongman. The circus goes bankrupt after the Big Top is destroyed when Laurel and Hardy cause Destructo's cannonball-catching act to go wrong. The circus can't pay them their wages so Oliver is given a gorilla called Ethel and Stanley a Flea Circus as a pay off. Despite the film's title Ethel isn't a chimpanzee. She is dressed in a ballet tutu and hat. Stanley and Oliver need to find a room to stay in overnight and they go to a guest house. The landlord gives them a room but refuses to let Ethel stay. A lion named MGM after the MGM lion has escaped from the circus. Stanley and Oliver try to smuggle Ethel into their room whilst avoiding MGM. They decide to leave Ethel outside for the night and go to bed. They sleep in the same bed as in all Laurel and Hardy films. Stanley falls out of bed and decides to sleep in the spare bed. Ethel climbs in through the window and gets into bed with Oliver. Ethel steals the blanket from Oliver so he decides to use the spare bed as well as Stanley. They both begin to itch and find that the flea circus has escaped into the bed. Another guest at the house puts some music on and Ethel begins to dance. The landlord has a wife called Ethel and when Oliver tells the gorilla to stop dancing the landlord thinks his wife is in the room with Stanley and Oliver. The landlord confronts Stanley and Oliver with a pistol. At the end the gorilla gets hold of the pistol and begins to shoot, scaring everyone out of the room.
The Stolen Jools, 20minutes
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet, John G. Adolfi, William C. McGann, Victor Heerman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Jack Hill, Jack Hill, J. Farrell MacDonald
Roles Policeman
Rating57% 2.8524052.8524052.8524052.8524052.852405
At the "Screen Stars Annual Ball", Norma Shearer has her jewels stolen. The police must find them and return them to her.
Liberty
Liberty (1929)
, 20minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tom Kennedy, Sam Lufkin, James Finlayson, Jack Hill
Roles Officer
Rating74% 3.736343.736343.736343.736343.73634
Stan and Ollie are prison escapees. In their haste to change into street clothes, they wind up wearing each other's pants. A cop chases them to a construction site, where they escape by riding an elevator to the top floor of an unfinished building. Atop the girders, 20 stories in the air, they finally switch trousers, contend with a crab that has found its way into Ollie's pants, and manage to nearly fall to their death a few dozen times.
Wrong Again, 20minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dell Henderson, Josephine Crowell, William Gillespie, Sam Lufkin
Rating69% 3.4889353.4889353.4889353.4889353.488935
Stable grooms Laurel and Hardy overhear news of a $5,000 reward for the return of the stolen painting The Blue Boy, but think the reward is for the horse at their barn named Blue Boy. When they bring the horse to the painting's owner, he speaks to them from an upstairs window where he can't see the steed; he tells them to bring Blue Boy in the house and put "him" on the piano. This triggers a running gag where Ollie explains patiently to Stan that (Scott Fitzgerald aside), the rich are different from you and me. He punctuates his lesson with a twisting gesture of his hand to demonstrate the 180-degree difference between the classes.
Leave 'Em Laughing, 21minutes
Directed by Frank Butler, Clyde Bruckman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Charlie Hall, Otto Fries, Dorothy Coburn
Rating66% 3.336323.336323.336323.336323.33632
The scene opens in the duo's flat at night time. Stan complains that he has a toothache. Ollie goes to the bathroom to get him a hot-water bottle and keeps stepping on a tack which is lying around. When Stan gets the water bottle, the lid opens and the water pours out in the bed. The two of them make much noise and the landlord (Charlie Hall) comes in, telling them that they will have to leave first thing in the morning.
Should Married Men Go Home?, 20minutes
Directed by Leo McCarey, James Gibbons Parrott
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edna Marion, Charlie Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Jack Hill
Roles Muddy Combatant (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.341773.341773.341773.341773.34177
Ollie and his wife are enjoying a quiet Sunday at home until Stan shows up, eager to play some golf. After Stan breaks the Hardys' Victrola and nearly sets fire to their house, Mrs. Hardy chases the boys out. At the golf course, they are partnered with a pair of comely young lasses to complete a foursome. The girls want to be treated to sodas, but the boys are short of money. Stan leaves his watch to settle the thirty-cent bill. On the course, they tangle with rude golfer Edgar Kennedy, and wind up in a mud-throwing battle with several other linksters.