Jack Hill

Jack Hill born January 28, 1933 is an American film director in the exploitation film genre. Several of Hills later films have been characterized as feminist works.

Hill attended UCLA, which he attended, he said, for a couple of years before leaving to get married and then returning to earn a degree in music. While a student, he played in a symphony orchestra that performed for the soundtracks of Doctor Zhivago and The Brothers Karamazov, and he arranged music for burlesque performers through this he met comedian Lenny Bruce, who daughter Kitty Bruce would act in Hills 1975 film Switchblade Sisters. He on to postgraduate studies at UCLA Film School, where instructor and former movie director Dorothy Arzner and encouraged Hill and his classmate and friend Francis Ford Coppola. Hill worked as a cameraman, a sound recorder including on Coppolas student short Ayamonn the Terrible, and an editor on student films. His short The Host starred Sid Haig, an acting student at the Pasadena Playhouse under teacher Arzner, who introduced them this marked the first of several films together.Hill went on to work with Coppola on several of that directors early movies, including producer Roger Cormans The Terror 1963. He addedminutes to 1960s The Wasp Woman for its eventual television syndication release, shooting without access to any original castmember. ........

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