Ten days after graduating with a bachelor's degree in music in 1943, Hill joined the Navy. He found acting more suitable and joined the Dramatic Society, becoming its president and appearing in campus musicals. A baritone, he became a member of the university Glee Club but he soon discovered that singing wasn't his forte. After graduating, he majored in music at Yale. But his love for the performing arts was inspired by a different calling - the stage, where he appeared in student productions at his prep school in Hopkins, Minnesota. His intense interest would eventually drive him to earn his pilot's license by age 16. He was 81, and had been struggling with Parkinson's disease.īorn on December 20, 1922, to a well-to-do Minneapolis newspaper family, Hill would hang out at the local airfield as a child and watch the barnstorming pilots, fascinated by their theatrics. George Roy Hill, the Academy Award winning director who is fondly remembered for guiding Paul Newman and Robert Redford in two of their most memorable hits, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), died Friday, December 20, 2002, in his New York City apartment.
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