Arthur Hiller Filmography

Born:: November 22, 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Occupation:: Director
Biography:: After wartime service with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Edmontonian Arthur Hiller began his show business career in Canadian radio and television. In the mid-1950s, Hiller left the CBC for American television, directing such live anthologies as Playhouse 90 and such filmed weeklies as Alcoa/Goodyear Theatre...Read More

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Who Is Norman Lloyd?

Actors: Norman Lloyd, Peggy Lloyd, Karl Malden, Ray Bradbury, Cameron Diaz

Synopsis: While Norman Lloyd managed to avoid becoming a household name, over the course of a career in the arts that has spanned eight decades he's distinguished himself as an actor, director, writer and producer in film, television and the legitimate stage. In the Thirties, Lloyd acted in a number of Read More

2007
National Lampoon's Pucked

Crew: Director

Actors: Jon Bon Jovi, Estella Warren, David Faustino, Nora Dunn, Cary Elwes

Synopsis: Credit cards and women on skates prove to be a dangerous mixture in this comedy. Frank Hopper (Jon Bon Jovi) is a former lawyer whose career has hit the skids, and he currently lives off the largesse of his more successful sister, Leona (Nora Dunn). Frank has dozens of business ideas, but has no Read More

2/10/06
Speakeasy

Synopsis: A runner-up in HBO's popular series Project Greenlight, this touching tale of common threads and self-discovery stars David Strathairn, Nicky Katt, and Christopher McDonald. Brought together by a car accident, Bruce Hickman (Strathairn) and Frank Marnikov (Katt) soon discover that they are Read More

2002
Lost In The Pershing Point Hotel

Actors: Leslie Jordan, Erin Chandler, Mark Pellegrino, Carlos Gomez, Luke Eberl

Synopsis: Leslie Jordan writes and stars in this autobiographical account of being gay and drug-addled in 1970s Atlanta. The film opens with the protagonist known only as Storyteller (Jordan) meeting his maker after a drug overdose and trying to explain the sorry state of his former life. Rewind 20 years Read More

2000
A Dirty Little Business

Actors: Michael York, Prunella Gee, Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis: A Russian immigrant arrives in the Unites States to discover that the American dream has dampened somewhat in writer-turned-director Len Richmond's satirical look at America's preoccupation with all things sexual. Despite enthusiastic Alex's (Michael York) best efforts, the only job he can find Read More

1998
Pitch

Synopsis: In this Canadian documentary, two young filmmakers attend the Toronto Film Festival and pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled The Dawn, concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. During the 1996 Toronto fest, they approach Roger Ebert Read More

1997
Carpool

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Arnold, David Paymer, Rhea Perlman, Rod Steiger, Kim Coates

Synopsis: Franklin Lazlo (Tom Arnold) is desperate. His carnival is on the skids and he hasn't got the money to make his next payroll. He tries robbery, with little result except to have the police, some professional robbers, and a meter-maid (Rhea Perlman) chasing him. On the way, he takes uptight and Read More

1996
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick

Actors: Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Directed by the acclaimed Walter Hill and narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William Wellman (1896-1975). Ambulance driver for the French Foreign Legion and decorated American pilot in World War I, Wellman later became Read More

1995
Roswell

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Kim Greist

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, Roswell is an entertaining mix of purported actual events and science fiction. The narrative unfolds primarily in flashbacks as retired Army officer Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) attends a reunion of the 509th Bomber Group and tries to come to closure on Read More

1994
Beverly Hills Cop III

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Hector Elizondo, Timothy Carhart, Stephen McHattie, John Saxon

Synopsis: The third entry in the popular Beverly Hills Cop series finds Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returning yet again to Southern California, this time on the trail of two car thieves turned murderers. As he teams up again with L.A. cop Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold), Foley's investigation Read More

1994
Married to It

Crew: Director

Actors: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each other through their marriage difficulties. Claire (Cybill Shepherd) and Leo (Ron Silver) are a wealthy couple having trouble with a daughter from a previous marriage. John (Beau Bridges Read More

1993
The Babe

Crew: Director

Actors: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Trini Alvarado, Bruce Boxleitner, Peter Donat

Synopsis: John Goodman is cast as the Sultan of Swat, whose excesses -- especially drinking -- and private demons can (in this context) be excused in view of his genuine love of baseball. The facts never get in the way of a good story for screenwriter John Fusco; we're even offered the umpteenth rehash of Read More

4/17/92
Taking Care of Business

Crew: Director

Actors: James Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne de Salvo, Loryn Locklin, Stephen Elliott, Veronica Hamel

Synopsis: James Belushi and Charles Grodin team up for this variation on the Prince and the Pauper. Belushi plays Jimmy Dworski, a convicted car thief, serving time in a minimum security prison. But when Jimmy wins a pair of tickets to the World Series from a radio call-in show, he can't resist walking out Read More

8/17/90
See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Kirsten Childs, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: The third pairing of comic actors Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was much less successful than their previous team-ups, Silver Streak(1976) and Stir Crazy (1980). Wilder plays Dave, the deaf proprietor of a newsstand and employer of blind gambler Wally (Pryor). When Wally's bookie is shot and Read More

5/12/89
Outrageous Fortune

Crew: Director

Actors: Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky, John Schuck

Synopsis: Two women with serious differences are forced to look out for each other in this anarchic comedy. Sandy (Bette Midler) and Lauren (Shelley Long) are a pair of struggling actresses who don't get along especially well -- and are even less fond of each other when they discover that they're both Read More

1/30/87
The Lonely Guy

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin, Judith Ivey, Steve Lawrence, Robyn Douglass

Synopsis: In a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has been dumped by his girlfriend. Since misery loves company, he takes up with Warren, a fellow Lonely Guy (Charles Grodin), and eventually both Read More

1984
Teachers

Crew: Director

Actors: Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this satiric look at contemporary urban high schools, examining disillusioned teachers who try to regain their idealism. Nick Nolte stars as Alex, a teacher at John Fitzgerald Kennedy High School, who was once an idealistic teacher but whose main concern now is sobering up Read More

1984
Romantic Comedy

Crew: Director

Actors: Dudley Moore, Mary Steenburgen, Ron Leibman, Janet Eilber, Robyn Douglass

Synopsis: Phoebe (Mary Steenburgen) and Jason (Dudley Moore) are a pair of Broadway playwrights who are partners in their chosen profession, but in spite of a definite inclination, they remain unpartnered (for a long time) in any other way. Phoebe is an aspiring playwright from the Northwoods and Jason is Read More

1983
Making Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this drama exploring the disintegration of an ideal marriage after the husband discovers he is gay. Kate Jackson is Claire, a successful television producer, and Michael Ontkean is her husband Zack, an equally successful doctor. They enjoy eight years of married bliss until Read More

1982
Author! Author!

Crew: Director

Actors: Al Pacino, Dyan Cannon, Tuesday Weld, Alan King, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: Successful playwright Al Pacino can't get any work done as long as he is pestered by his wacko wife Tuesday Weld. Making things worse are the couple's obstreperous children, many of them products of her previous marriages. Just as Pacino is completing his latest work, his wife walks out on him. Read More

1982
Nightwing

Crew: Director

Actors: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Stephen Macht, Strother Martin

Synopsis: In this chiller, a trio of heroes must enter a black Southwestern cave and destroy an entire colony of plague-bearing bats, vampire bats. The story is based on a novel by Martin Cruz Smith. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The In-Laws

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Penny Peyser, Arlene Golonka

Synopsis: Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk). They are practically relatives already, the wedding is so near. Certainly, Sheldon already despises Vince as if he were already a Read More

1979
W.C. Fields and Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W. C. Fields was a great comedian in vaudeville and early talking films, who was noted for his ability to say the most hilariously cutting and mean things in a cheery, bright Read More

1976
Silver Streak

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) makes the acquaintance of Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). As they indulge in a brief bit of spooning, Hilly tells George that her boss is on the verge of exposing a group of vicious art forgers. Later that Read More

1976
The Man in the Glass Booth

Crew: Director

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Lois Nettleton, Luther Adler, Lawrence Pressman, Henry Brown

Synopsis: Actor/writer Robert Shaw's powerhouse stage play The Man in the Glass Booth was transferred to the screen as part of the American Film Theatre series. Maximilian Schell plays Arthur Goldman, a Jewish businessmen living in Manhattan in 1965. A group of Israeli underground agents barge into Read More

1975
The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Michael Ivan Cristofer

Synopsis: In this drama, a Vietnam vet, living in the psycho ward of a V.A. hospital, has difficulty coping with the crazy world he returned home to. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Man of La Mancha

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Miriam Acevedo, Rolando DeSantis, Connel Miles, Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle

Synopsis: Dale Wasserman's long-running Broadway smash comes to the screen in this musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic satire Don Quixote de la Mancha. Cervantes (Peter O'Toole) is arrested and put in prison by the soldiers of the Spanish Inquisition after staging a comic performance which mocked Read More

9/8/73
The Hospital

Crew: Director

Actors: Rehn Scofield, George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Nancy Marchand, Stephen Elliott

Synopsis: Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and Read More

1971
Plaza Suite

Crew: Director

Actors: Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant, Louise Sorel

Synopsis: It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite was the first film version of a Simon play to carry over the multiple-role device to the screen. Walter Matthau appears in all three one-act playlets comprising Plaza Read More

1971
The Out-of-Towners

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Milt Kamen, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Robert Nichols

Synopsis: Ohio businessman Jack Lemmon is offered a golden job opportunity; all he has to do is relocate himself and wife Sandy Dennis to New York City. What follows has led some critics to complain that playwright Neil Simon has written a "hate letter" to Manhattan. Within a 36 hour period, the couple (a) Read More

1970
Love Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Russell Nype

Synopsis: In director Arthur Hiller's hit tearjerker -- based on Erich Segal's novella -- Ryan O'Neal plays Oliver Barrett IV, a comfortably off Harvard pre-law student who falls in love with Radcliffe music student Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), a freewheeling, delightfully profane product of a blue-collar Read More

1970
Popi

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Miguel Alejandro, Ruben Figueroa, John Harkins

Synopsis: Striving for a better life for his two sons, a Puerto Rican immigrant named Popi (Alan Arkin) goes about his mission in a singularly eccentric fashion in this comedy from director Arthur Hiller. So intent is Harlem resident Abraham "Popi" Rodriguez (Arkin) upon providing his boys with the American Read More

1969
The Tiger Makes Out

Crew: Director

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Bob Dishy, John Harkins, Ruth White

Synopsis: Expanded from a two-character play by Murray Schisgal, this comedy stars Eli Wallach as Ben Harris, a disgruntled New York City mail carrier. Harris is fed up with being cheated by his landlords, the Kellys (Roland Wood and Ruth White), so he terrorizes them and the city's housing authority until Read More

1967
Penelope

Crew: Director

Actors: Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Dick Shawn, Peter Falk, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: Can armed robbery help save a marriage? These and other questions about modern relationships are pondered in this comedy. Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) married James (Ian Bannen) after a very brief courtship, and as his star has begun to rise in the banking business, he spends less and less time Read More

1966
Perry Mason: The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having trouble finding work thanks to his criminal record, Tony Polk (Steve Harris) finally lands a job going door to door and dispensing free gifts to viewers of a bizarre game show called "The Bad Buccaneer." This assignment requires him to wear a pirate costume, complete with a hook-shaped Read More

1966
Tobruk

Crew: Director

Actors: Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this exciting World War II drama starring Rock Hudson as Major Donald Craig of the British North African Army. In 1942, Craig is captured by the Vichy French, rescued by Palestinian Jews, and taken to the headquarters of Col. John Harker (Nigel Green). Harker explains that Read More

1966
The Addams Family: The Addams Family Goes to School

Crew: Director

1964
The Americanization of Emily

Crew: Director

Actors: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell

Synopsis: The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who happens to be a craven coward. While his comrades sail off to their deaths, Garner makes himself scarce, generally hiding out in the London flat of his lothario navy buddy James Coburn Read More

1964
Promise Her Anything

Crew: Director

Actors: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: A woman has to choose between the rich man she wants and the bohemian type who loves her in this comedy. Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) is a young widow raising a baby in Greenwich Village. She's decided that her child needs a father, and she determines that her best bet as a prospective mate is Read More

1964
The Wheeler Dealers

Crew: Director

Actors: James Garner, Lee Remick, Phil Harris, Chill Wills, Jim Backus, Louis Nye, John Astin, Charles Watts

Synopsis: This comical farce is a lighthearted lampoon of Wall Street and the vibrant trading and selling on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Henry Tyroon (James Garner) is the chameleonic broker who changes his colors and ethical standards to fit every deal. Molly (Lee Remick) is the novice trader Read More

1963
This Rugged Land

Crew: Director

1962
Miracle of the White Stallions

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Taylor, Lilli Palmer, Curd Jürgens, Eddie Albert, James Franciscus

Synopsis: In a rather confusing and slow-paced manner, this wartime drama about a real-life dilemma is meant to highlight the dedication of Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), the instructor at a prestigious Vienna equestrian school. The colonel is in charge of the safety and health of the royal Read More

1962
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Woman's Help

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Arnold Bourdon (Scott McKay) hires beautiful nurse Joan Grecco (Antoinette Bower) to care for his overbearing wife, Elizabeth (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Inevitably, Arnold falls in love with Joan, whereupon husband and nurse conspire to kill the ailing wife. Unfortunately for the conspirators Read More

1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Make My Death Bed

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A round robin of betrayal and murder takes up most of the running time in this episode. First off, Elise Taylor (Diana Van Der Vlis) falls in love with Bish Darby (James Best), who is married to a woman named Jackie (Madeleine Sherwood), who in turn makes arrangements for Bish to die and for Elise Read More

1961
Naked City: Murder is a Face I Know

Crew: Director

1961
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: One Grave Too Many

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a man collapses and apparently dies on the street, the wallet he is carrying is stolen by impoverished Joe Helmer (Jeremy Slate). Examining the wallet's contents, Joe finds a card indicating that the wallet's owner is suffering from a disease that causes a deathlike state. Consumed by guilt Read More

1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Forty Detectives Later

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It has been ten years since the wife of Munro Dean (George Mitchell) was murdered, and during this period Munro has hired 39 detectives in a futile effort to track down and destroy his wife's killer, an elusive gent named Otto (Jack Weston). The 40th detective turns out to be a young man named Read More

1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Not the Running Type

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Arrested for embezzling 20,000 dollars, mild-mannered Milton Potter (Paul Hartman) immediately surrenders to the police, explaining that he is "not the running type." Sentenced to 12 years in jail, Milton is given several opportunities to shorten his sentence by revealing the whereabouts of the Read More

1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Across the Threshold

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hubert Wintor (George Grizzard) can't persuade his widowed mother, Sofie (Patricia Collinge), to lend him any money. However, Hubert is more successful talking Sofie into attending a séance staged by a suspicious-looking medium named Irma (Barbara Baxley). In the course of the séance, a voice from Read More

1960
Perry Mason: The Case of the Ominous Outcast

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bob Lansing (Jeremy Slate), lookalike son of a notorious bank robber, arrives in a small town to receive information about his father from J.J. Flaherty (Robert Emhardt), the local bigwig who has been making huge contributions to the orphanage where Bob grew up. Instead of information, Bob is the Read More

1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Baby Blue Expression

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hopelessly in love with Poopsie Barrett (Sarah Marshall), the childlike, scatterbrained wife of his boss James Barrett (Richard Gaines), Philip Weaver (Peter Walker) begins plotting Barrett's demise. The scheme involves a business trip to Toronto and an "accidental" tragedy. What Philip hadn't Read More

1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Doubtful Doctor

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After a fight with his wife (Gena Rowlands) in which he tells her that he wishes he was single again, Ralph Jones (Dick York) is miraculously transported back to his bachelorhood, two years earlier. At least, that's the story Ralph tells his psychiatrist (John Zaremba), who has trouble believing Read More

1960
Perry Mason: The Case of the Bartered Bikini

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Swimsuit manufacturer Wally Dunbar (John Lupton) is none too happy when his new summer line of bikinis is pirated after the design sketches are stolen. It gets worse when Dunbar's girlfriend Kitty Wynne (Terry Huntingdon) is charged with the murder of Dunbar's top designer Rick Stassi (Stephan Read More

1959
The Rifleman: Bloodlines

Crew: Director

Actors: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Buddy Hackett, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Done up to look much older than his tender years, Buddy Hackett guest stars in this unusually violent segment of The Rifleman. Hackett plays uncouth Daniel Malakie, arriving in town to bail out his three hell-raising sons. When he learns that one of the sons, Ben (Christopher Dark), mistakenly Read More

1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Morning of the Bride

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This 1959 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents could well be described as a precursor to Hitchcock's upcoming theatrical feature Psycho. Helen Brewster (Barbara Bel Geddes) wants to wed her much-younger boyfriend, Philip Pryor (Don Dubbins), but he keeps putting off the wedding, explaining that Read More

1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Right Price

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Businessman Mort Bonner (Allyn Joslyn) is awakened one evening by a middle-aged burglar (Eddie Foy Jr.). Surprisingly, the bespectacled crook offers to split the insurance money that Mort will collect for the items that will be stolen. Impressed by the burglar's business acumen, Mort comes up with Read More

1959
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Daughter

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Claiming to be suffering from amnesia, an 18-year-old girl (Gigi Perreau) asks Perry (Raymond Burr) to find out who she is and help restore her memory. As it turns out, the girl has plenty to forget: Her name is Doris Bannister, and she is the daughter of Lisa Bannister (Osa Massen)--who herself Read More

1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Disappearing Trick

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tennis player Walter Richmond (Robert Horton) finds a perfect doubles partner in the shapely form of attractive young widow Laura Gild (Betsy Von Furstenberg). As the two get to know each other better, the insatiably curious Walter begins asking questions about Laura's dear, departed husband. It Read More

1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Flight to the East

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fired for his sympathetic coverage of an Arab leader who has been executed for murder, disgraced reporter Ted Franklin (Gary Merrill) boards a flight from Tangier to Cairo. His traveling companion is the beautiful Barbara Denham (Patricia Cutts), who expresses fascination over his unorthodox Read More

1958
Perry Mason: The Case of the Fancy Figures

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Falsely accused of embezzling $300,000, Martin Ellis (William Phipps) is released after several years' imprisonment thanks to Perry Mason, who is in possession of new evidence. The real embezzler is Charles Brewster (Ralph Clanton), who unfortunately is let out on bail. Shortly thereafter Read More

1958