Walter Hill

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 is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories." Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Hill (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Alien: Romulus

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Release Date: 2024-08-13

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 3349

Dead for a Dollar

In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.

Release Date: 2022-09-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 255

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.

Release Date: 2021-04-23

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Friedkin Uncut

An introspective insight into the life and artistic journey of William Friedkin, an extraordinary and offbeat director of cult films such as The French Connection, The Exorcist, Sorcerer, Cruising, To Live and Die in L.A. and Killer Joe. For the first time Friedkin opens up, guiding the audience on a fascinating journey through the themes and the stories that have influenced his life and his artistic career.

Release Date: 2018-11-05

Character: Self

Vote Count: 43

Baby Driver

After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.

Release Date: 2017-06-28

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Character: Courtroom Interpreter (voice)

Vote Count: 15874

Shotguns and Six Strings: Making a Rock N Roll Fable

Documentary about the making of Streets of Fire.

Release Date: 2017-05-16

Character: Self

Alien: Covenant

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

Release Date: 2017-05-09

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 8770

The Assignment

Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.

Release Date: 2016-06-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 517

Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited

Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited

Release Date: 2013-11-08

Character: Self

Bullet to the Head

After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

Release Date: 2012-11-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1283

Prometheus

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Release Date: 2012-05-30

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 12403

Madso's War

When the boss of Boston's Irish mob abruptly skips town to escape a federal indictment, a low-level gangster gathers a group of petty crooks to seize control of the streets.

Release Date: 2010-12-30

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 8

Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.

Release Date: 2007-12-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 2982

The Warriors: Battleground

Documents the filming process, along with technical insights by cinematographer Andrew Lazslo.

Release Date: 2007-07-03

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

The Warriors: The Beginning

Details the origins of the story, with anecdotes by the cast and crew about how they got involved in the project.

Release Date: 2007-07-03

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

The Warriors: The Phenomenon

Features the editing and scoring processes, a proposed narration by Orson Welles, and some of the controversies inherent in the film's release.

Release Date: 2007-07-03

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

The Warriors: The Way Home

An examination of the choreographed fight scenes and bizarre costuming.

Release Date: 2007-06-03

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'

An appreciation of Howard Hawks' "Rio Bravo" (1959) by filmmakers and historians.

Release Date: 2007-01-01

Character: Self

Becoming John Ford

Portrait of film director John Ford, perhaps best known for re-inventing the Western, and generally considered one of America's greatest directors.

Release Date: 2007-01-01

Character: John Ford (voice)

Vote Count: 3

Broken Trail

The story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls. Broken Trail weaves together two historical events: the British buying horses in the American West in the late 19th century and Chinese women being transported from the West Coast to the interior to serve as prostitutes.

Release Date: 2006-06-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 161

Broken Trail: The Making of a Legendary Western

A documentary about the making of the 2006 AMC miniseries Broken Trail.

Release Date: 2006-06-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 5

AVP: Alien vs. Predator

When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.

Release Date: 2004-08-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 4508

Deadwood

The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.

Release Date: 2004-03-21

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 819

Ritual

An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.

Release Date: 2002-09-18

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 62

Undisputed

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.

Release Date: 2002-07-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 738

Supernova

Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form.

Release Date: 2000-01-14

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 390

Alien Resurrection

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

Release Date: 1997-11-12

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 5058

Perversions of Science

Perversions of Science is a science fiction/horror television series that ran on the cable channel HBO for one season in 1997. It is a spin-off of popular horror series Tales from the Crypt also shown on HBO, and its episodes are based on EC's Weird Science comic book series. The format of Perversions of Science is very similar to Tales From The Crypt, the show was introduced by a sexualized female robot named Chrome and then an individual episode would start. After the episode was complete, Chrome would conclude Perversions of Science. Most episodes focused on a part of science fiction such as alien invasion or space/time travel. The show featured a mix of established talent and young up-and-comers. "Panic", for instance, starred a young Jason Lee and Jamie Kennedy opposite Harvey Korman. As of 2011 the series has not been released on DVD in the US. However in 2001 it was released in Japan by Pioneer Entertainment where it has since gone out of print subsequently becoming sought after by collectors.

Release Date: 1997-06-07

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 7

Howard Hawks: American Artist

A tribute of Howard Hawks by the British Film Institute.

Release Date: 1997-01-01

Character: Self

Vote Count: 4

Last Man Standing

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.

Release Date: 1996-09-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 890

Bordello of Blood

Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.

Release Date: 1996-08-16

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 380

Wild Bill

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.

Release Date: 1995-12-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 151

W.E.I.R.D. World

Greed, murder, sex - all appear to thrive at the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development, aka W.E.I.R.D., where brilliant, young, but emotionally unstable scientific geniuses are recruited to develop cutting-edge projects in such fields as virology, time-travel, rejuvenation and robotics.

Release Date: 1995-09-26

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 3

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.

Release Date: 1995-01-13

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 495

The Getaway

Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.

Release Date: 1994-02-11

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 345

Geronimo: An American Legend

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.

Release Date: 1993-12-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 259

Trespass

Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is on the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.

Release Date: 1992-12-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 200

Alien³

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

Release Date: 1992-05-22

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 5806

Two-Fisted Tales

The foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush introduces three adventure tales inspired by the EC Comics of the 1950s: "Showdown," "King of the Road," and "Yellow." This star-studded telefilm was an attempt to launch a second anthology series in the mold of "Tales from the Crypt." When the film failed to generate sufficient interest, the three tales were re-edited and shown as "Crypt" episodes.

Release Date: 1992-01-18

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 14

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.

Release Date: 1991-12-25

Department: Crew

Job: Thanks

Vote Count: 199

Tales from the Crypt Volume 3

Release Date: 1990-06-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 4

Another 48 Hrs.

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.

Release Date: 1990-06-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 882

Johnny Handsome

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

Release Date: 1989-09-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 266

Prisoners of Gravity

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic books — and its relation to various thematic and social issues. Produced by TVOntario, the show was the brainchild of former comic retail manager Mark Askwith and writer Daniel Richler, and was hosted by Rick Green. The series aired 139 episodes over 5 seasons from 1989 to 1994.

Release Date: 1989-08-21

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 6

Tales from the Crypt

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.

Release Date: 1978-06-08

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 455

Dog and Cat

A veteran detective loses his partner in a shooting while they are investigating a gangster who is controlling the local porno rackets. He is stunned to discover that the new partner he is assigned is not only a rookie, but a female.

Release Date: 1977-07-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Thomas Crown Affair

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.

Release Date: 1968-06-26

Department: Directing

Job: Second Assistant Director

Vote Count: 502

St. Vincent

A hitman poses as a priest to get close to his next target, a disgraced gangster turned FBI informant, who visits the church on a regular basis.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Will He Live or Will He Die: Walter Hill on Southern Comfort

Walter Hill sits down for a rare retrospective interview for his 1981 film "Southern Comfort".

Character: Self

Dog and Cat

Dog and Cat is an American television series that aired on ABC on Saturday night at 10:00 p.m Eastern time in 1977. Lou Antonio played Sgt. Jack Ramsey, an undercover detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, who found himself teamed with a very green partner named J.Z. Kane. Together they formed a relationship based on friendship and trust that led to them capturing many of L.A.'s criminals. Lieutenant Arthur Kipling was their boss. "Dog and Cat" is a slang term used by police officers to denote a male-female partnership. The show is especially remembered for the car that Kim Basinger used in the series: a souped-up Volkswagen Beetle with a Porsche engine.

Release Date: 1977-07-22

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Hard Times

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.

Release Date: 1975-08-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 203

The Drowning Pool

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! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.

Release Date: 1975-07-18

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 124

The MacKintosh Man

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...

Release Date: 1973-11-08

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 93

Messiah of Evil

A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dume, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.

Release Date: 1973-04-23

Character: Stabbing Victim in Prologue

Vote Count: 139

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.

Release Date: 1973-03-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 16

The Getaway

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.

Release Date: 1972-12-13

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 578

Hickey & Boggs

Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.

Release Date: 1972-10-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 34

Directed by John Ford

A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.

Release Date: 1971-09-06

Character: Self (2006)

Vote Count: 35