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Walter Hill

FULL NAME	Walter Hill
BORN	10 January 1942, Long Beach, California, USA
ASSOCIATION	Director, screenwriter, producer
NATIONALITY	American
REVIEWED ENTRIES	9 (total) 4 (as director)
MAX. RATING	(total) ½ (as director)
MIN. RATING
AVERAGE RATING (DIRECTOR)	3.00

FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)

BIO

With an old-fashioned genre-sensitivity, a knack for curious stories of crime and transgression, and an interesting visual style to boot, Walter Hill emerged as the action-pick among the New Hollywood directors. He was seen by some as the successor to Sam Peckinpah, perhaps more for the fact that Hill got his break writing the script for the former's success film The Getaway in 1972 than for the simularities between them as directors, although both were interested in the depiction and effect of violence on the screen. Hill's greatest successes turned out to been as a producer and writer, most notably with Ridley Scott's Alien, which Hill produced and also had a hand in the writing of. In the director's chair, he has arguably never reached his full potential, although he scored a massive box-office hit with 48 Hrs. in 1982, and although his 1979 film The Warriors, which was mostly panned by contemporary critics, has since gained a cult following and a renaissance.

AWARDS

No Academy Award nominations...