Jack Hill

Biography

Jack Hill is a film director born January 28, 1933, in Los Angeles to a musical teacher mother and architect father who designed the Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland. He was an early associate of Francis Ford Coppola and Roger Corman, and worked extensively with American International Pictures during the 1960s and 1970s. Hill is known for directing exploitation films like Spider Baby and Coffy, which helped cultivate the careers of actors Pam Grier and Ellen Burstyn.