Posted on 10/26/2006 1:23:51 PM PDT by Borges
PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. Veteran character actor Arthur Hill is dead at 84.
Hill's dozens of television and movie appearances included the title role in the T-V series "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law."
Hill's friend Walter Seltzer reports the actor died Sunday at a Pacific Palisades care facility after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Hill hadn't worked in the motion picture or television business since 1990. He was a well-known face on T-V, appearing on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Defenders," "Ben Casey," "The Untouchables," "The Nurses," "The F-B-I," "Mission Impossible," "The Fugitive" and "Marcus Welby, M-D."
He was the star of "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law" from 1971 to 1974.
Hill also appeared in the films "Harper," "The Ugly American," "The Andromeda Strain" and "A Bridge Too Far."
Born in Saskatchewan, Hill served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and attended the University of British Columbia, where he studied law but was lured to the stage.
He was also the original George in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' with Uta Hagen's Martha.
I thought he was great on "Owen Marshall".
I remember him best in "The Andromeda Strain". RIP.
I remember him best from "The Andromeda Strain."
Are you guys the same person or what?
He had quite a memorable voice.
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN yes, and he had a small but very good part in A BRIDGE TOO FAR.
He was great in the Andromeda Strain..
This is the second time this has happened to me today.
Also Hill was in "Death Be Not Proud" which was an excellent 70s Made-For-TV movie, where he played the father of a teenage boy suffering from a terminal brain tumor.
He made a lasting impression on all of us in the Andromeda Strain...
great minds think alike.
You two joined at the cerebellum?.........
He was outstanding as the Army doctor in "A Bridge Too Far".
His scenes with James Caan make that movie for me.
I may flip through portions of the movie, but I always wait for that scene.
Same thing happened earlier when two of us posted on the Hillary birthday thread that "She didn't look a day over 70" at exactly the same time.
RIP
You are mind-melding with great intellectuals.
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