Arthur Hiller, who received an Oscar nomination as director of the hugely popular film of drama and romance “Love Story,” died Wednesday at age 92 after a career that spanned dozens of films and programs Celebrity television.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced his death on Wednesday. Hiller was president of the Academy of 1993 to 97.
Although some criticized her for being too syrupy, “Love Story” with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal in the role of a couple university with an impossible love, was one of the most popular of the 1970s films the film based on the novel by Erich Segal, made mourn thousands of spectators and immortalized with the phrase: “love is never having to ask for forgiveness”.
MacGraw said in a statement Wednesday that Hiller was “an integral part of one of the most important experiences of my life.”
“It was an exceptional, talented, generous human being and I’ll miss him terribly,” said the actress. “My heart and my love are with his family.”
Oddly enough Hiller told in 1991 that the film was not near done.
“Paramount had financial problems,” the director, so that executives wanted to cancel the project he said. But the head of production Robert Evans loved the script and allowed to continue with the tape Hiller, provided spend only 2 million. The director managed to make the film with $ 25,000 less than budgeted, but then insisted on spending $ 15,000 for memorable scenes in the snow of Boston.
“Love Story” began two decades of intense activity for Hiller, who had started his career directing television programs such as “Gunsmoke,” “Perry Mason” and “The Rifleman” on 1950
Between 1970 and 1990 he led more than 20 feature films and used to get good results in both comedy and drama. He was even in charge of the musical “Man of La Mancha” 1972 starring Peter O’Toole and Sophia Loren, as well as the 1976 biography “W.C. Fields and Me” with Rod Steiger and Valerie Perrine.
Its most outstanding comedies including “The In-Laws” with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, “The Wheeler Dealers” with James Garner and Lee Remick, “The Out-of-Towners” with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis, “The Lonely Guy” with Steve Martin and Charles Grodin, and “Author Author !,” with Al Pacino and Dyan Cannon.
also brought together comic Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor twice in the success of 1976 “Silver Streak” and with less success in “See No Evil, Hear No Evil” 1989.
Among his plays include “The Americanization of Emily” with Garner and Julie Andrews, “The Man in the Glass Booth” with Maximilian Schell, “The Hospital” with George C . Scott and Diana Rigg and “Tobruk” with Rock Hudson and George Peppard.
Hiller’s versatility and willingness to take projects that were not worth for your affected talent recognition of his achievements. Although it had good reviews for his best films, the children were finished by critics. His only Oscar nomination came for “Love Story” ( “Love Story”) for which he won the Golden Globe.
Ever Hiller, talking soft and fluffy mane, he explained his choice of scripts saying: “I prefer to have good moral values, that comes from my parents and the way I was brought up … Even in my films there is a less important affirmation of the human spirit.”
Two Hiller was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Directors Guild of America occasions. In 2002 the academy gave the Jean Hersholt Award for his humanitarian work.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, where his parents had a Yiddish school and a theater.
After leaving the University of Alberta to join the Royal Air Force during World War II, he studied psychology at the University of Toronto and law at the University of British Columbia. Eventually he decided to enter into communication and applied for a job in the Canadian broadcaster CBC in Toronto.
When asked what type of work sought Hiller responded: “I want to be a director.”
“So far I do not know where I got that,” he said in 2004.
But three weeks after saying it was leading current affairs programs . Eventually he came to the dramas and that caught the attention of Hollywood.
He was hired by NBC in 1955 to lead a live drama “Matinee Theater”. And after that would direct “Playhouse 90,” “Naked City”, “Route 66″ and many more series before moving on to feature films.
His latest films include “Taking Care of Business” 1990, “The Babe” 1992 and “Carpool” 1996.
Gwen Hiller Pechet married in 1948. The couple had a son, Henryk, and a daughter, Erica. They were married for 68 years until her death occurred last June.
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The late journalist Bob Thomas Associated Press contributed to this report biographical material.
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