Lee Hill

Lee Hill may refer to:

Lee Hill (actor)

Lee Hill (July 8, 1894 – September 15, 1957) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 74 films between 1914 and 1924. He was born in Minnesota and died in Los Angeles, California.

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Lee Hill (writer)

Lee Hill is the author of A Grand Guy—a biography of Terry Southern (2001)—as well as a monograph on the film Easy Rider (1996). He has contributed a wide range of journalism and commentary to Senses of Cinema, The Times, Scenario, Cinemascope, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and other outlets. He was the managing editor of Vox Magazine, the critically acclaimed music monthly and program guide of CJSW-FM from 1988 through 1990.

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Lee Hill (cinematographer)

Lee M. Hill full name Leighton McLeod Hill (13 March 1907 – 5 June 1952) was a New Zealand film-maker and cinematographer. He was born in Carterton, attended Carterton School and Dannevirke High School, and died in Wellington.

He worked for J E Vinsen for ten years and as a freelance. He also worked with Rudall Hayward in the 1920s, making local "community comedies", but later made some himself in competition with Hayward e.g. Frances of Fielding. He was an Army photographer in the 2NZEF in World War II, being captured at Sidi Aziz in 1941 and spent several years as a German prisoner-of-war.

At the end of the War he was in Oflag IX A/Z at Rotenburg an der Fulda, where he showed German silent films to prisoners. When the camp was marched east in 1945 he took a series of photographs of the march. Examples of these are in the Turnbull Collection, New Zealand.

Postwar he was associated with Apex Films Ltd and his own Television Films Ltd. He took over the Vogue Theatre in Brooklyn, Wellington but died suddenly, leaving a wife and family.