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Walter Hill
Writer 84 years old

Walter Hill

Long Beach, California, USA

Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Hill is known for male-dominated action films and revival of the Western. He said in an interview, "Every film I've done has been a Western," and elaborated in another, "The Western... Read full bio →

Filmography

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17 titles
Undisputed

Undisputed

Walter Hill 2002 1h 36m 6.2

When heavyweight champion George "Iceman" Chambers lands in prison, the resident gangster arranges a boxing match with the reigning prison champ.

Last Man Standing

Last Man Standing

Walter Hill 1996 1h 41m 6.2

A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

Wild Bill

Wild Bill

Walter Hill 1995 1h 38m 5.0

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock.

The Getaway

The Getaway

Roger Donaldson 1994 1h 56m 5.7

An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.

Alien³

Alien³

David Fincher 1992 1h 54m 7.2

Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.

Red Heat

Red Heat

Walter Hill 1988 1h 44m 6.2

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago. Jim Belushi plays his temporary partner on the Chicago police. When the drug dealer escapes, the two police must overcome their differences in order to recapture him.

Aliens

Aliens

James Cameron 1986 2h 17m 8.4

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.

Streets of Fire

Streets of Fire

Walter Hill 1984 1h 33m 6.4

A successful rock and roll singer (Ellen Aim) is kidnapped by a motorcycle gang. Her ex-boyfriend returns to the town. He's hired by her manager and boyfriend to rescue Ellen.

48 Hrs.

48 Hrs.

Walter Hill 1982 1h 36m 6.8

48 HRS. A film about a white cop who takes a black criminal out of jail to help him find a killer. They end up making a very comical pair.

Southern Comfort

Southern Comfort

Walter Hill 1981 1h 46m 7.9

A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.

The Warriors

The Warriors

Walter Hill 1979 1h 34m 8.4

A prominent gang leader calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

The Driver

The Driver

Walter Hill 1978 1h 31m 8.0

A specialist getaway drive is relentlessly pursued by a detective.

The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool

Stuart Rosenberg 1975 1h 49m 6.0

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper!

Hard Times

Hard Times

Walter Hill 1975 1h 33m 8.0

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.

The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man

John Huston 1973 1h 39m 6.0

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

The Getaway

The Getaway

Sam Peckinpah 1972 2h 3m 7.8

Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and singer perhaps best known for her roles in the films Clerks II, Sin City, Rent, Death Proof, Eagle Eye and Seven Pounds.

Hickey & Boggs

Hickey & Boggs

Robert Culp 1972 1h 51m

Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | Al Hickey (Cosby) & Frank Boggs (Culp) are two jaded private investigators who get hired to find a missing woman and quickly find themselves submerged in a world of murder and untruths.

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