Roger Hill, Who Played Cyrus in ‘The Warriors,’ Dies at 65

variety ^ | february 25, 2014 | carmel dagan

[lowbridge]

Roger Hill, who played gang leader Cyrus in Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic “The Warriors,” died Thursday in New York. He was 65.

Hill spent nearly 20 years as an actor, working mostly in theater. He was an early participant in the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop and appeared in Off Broadway and touring productions of Charles Gordone’s “No Place to Be Somebody,” Ed Bullins’ “The Fabulous Miss Marie” and “Hamlet.”

But the role with which he made the biggest impression was the charismatic but doomed gang lord Cyrus in Paramount’s “The Warriors"

[peeps36]

Not that I can remember. Is it good? I'll have to keep an eye out for it.

[ebshumidors]

I liked it. The diner scene was great. Youtube it.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Can you count, suckers?

[Rodney Dangerfield]

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Why didn’t the Warriors just steal a car to get back to Coney Island?

[OldNewYork]

Because that part wasn’t in Xenophon’s Anabasis.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

Nor was it in Sol Yurick’s book.

[cva66snipe]

You have him confused with the guy who shot Cyrus, famous for the ‘come out and play yay’ line.

The shooter was "Luther" – David Patrick Kelly.

[perez24]

This is one example where the movie was 100x BETTER than the book!

[catman67]

Good movie! Good actors! Diane Lane was HOT (and still is). Excellent musical score!!!

[onedoug]

“I like doin’ stuff like that!”

[cva66snipe]

I admit I had to look it up. I thought it was Sean Penn LOL.

[DemforBush]

“I wish they would play that other gang movie called The Wanderers.”

Great flick! Haven’t seen that one in many years.

“Don’t eff with The Wongs.”

[bramps]

He played an exceptional bad guy. He delivered some great lines. A fellow gang member asks him why he`s smiling in the middle of mayhem:
“ Because I’m having fun!”

[dfwgator]

Why didn’t the Warriors just steal a car to get back to Coney Island?

Wouldn't have been much of a movie now, would it?

[dfwgator]

If Obama led a gang, they’d be “The Orphans.”

[dfwgator]

Walter Hill used a lot of the same actors in all his movies, he was also in “48 Hrs”. The guy who played “Ajax”, James Remar, also was in 48 Hrs.

[bramps]

Im sitting in a barbers chair laughing at that one.
“You see what you get when you mess with the orphans?”
The baseball players was another great scene.

[Redcitizen]

LOL that’s true, 9 versus all the rest was quite a lopsided fight.