Walter Hill (director)
Walter Hill ( born January 10, 1942 in Long Beach, California ) is a Hollywood director who was very successful, especially in the 1980s as an action movie director.
Life and work
Hill studied history and literature at Michigan State University. He then enrolled at the Directors Guild of America (Union of U.S. directors ) and earned equal to his livelihood as an assistant director at Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt and Woody, the unlucky.
During his time as an assistant, he wrote the screenplays for the films Webster Affair, Getaway by Sam Peckinpah, Magnum Heat, John Huston's The Mackintosh Man and underwater you do not die.
His directorial debut was in 1974 with the drama A Hard Times ( with James Coburn and Charles Bronson ). This film is based on his own script Hills and went down very well with the critics on. Following the films Driver and the action film The Warriors from 1979, which have long since become cult films came.
His first Western turned Hill in 1979 with The Long Riders. His fondness for this genre, he expressed with such films as Geronimo - A legend Wild Bill and Last Man Standing. Also, the film drama The last Americans and Fallout follow the rules of the genre. In 1981, his most successful film to date, with only 48 hours with the Eddie Murphy made his feature film debut. Followed in 1990 with Another 48 Hours a sequel that grossed as much as the first part almost double.
More Hits succeeded Hill with the action films Red Heat and Johnny Handsome - The beautiful Johnny.
Again and again he turned but also failures. For his brief participation in the film Supernova he lay down even to an alias name. In addition, the video film The Provecy and several episodes of television series, including the Western television series Deadwood and the mini-series Broken Trail was born.
Walter Hill but not only wrote many of his films, the scripts, along with his partner David Giler he produced with the Alien series is a milestone in film history, Alien (1979 ) and its sequels Aliens - The Return, Alien ³, Alien - The Rebirth and Alien Vs. Predator. He also produced the original film as a prequel to Alien - The sinister creature from another world imaginary film Prometheus -.