George Roy Hill

George Roy Hill was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting , which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Other notable films are SlaughterhouseFive, The World According to Garp, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, Funny Farm, A Little Romance with Laurence Olivier, and The Little Drummer Girl.

He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to George Roy and Helen Frances Hill, part of a welltodo Roman Catholic family with interests in the newspaper business the family owned the Minneapolis Tribune. Hill was no relation to George W. Hill, director and cinematographer of numerous silent movies and early sound films in the 1920s and early 1930s. He was educated at The Blake School, one of Minnesotas most prestigious private schools, and at Yale University, class of 1943.

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