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"The principal job of a director is to first get his script and get it right and get it playable and get it almost foolproof. Then his job is to cast it as perfectly as he can. If he does those two things, he can phone in the direction, because it doesn't make any difference, his work is eighty percent done." note 

George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an American director.

Hill served in the US Marine Corps during both World War II and The Korean War. Following the latter, he worked in television and in theatre before moving on to directing movies in the 1960s, beginning with an adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play Period of Adjustment. He is most famous for directing Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the hit films Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, the latter of which won him an Academy Award for Best Director.

His last film as a director was Funny Farm, which came out in 1988. After that, he taught theatre at Yale, but Parkinson's disease slowed him down until his death at age 81 in 2002.


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