George W. Hill(1895-1934)
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Producer
Beginning his career at age 13 as a stagehand for D.W. Griffith, George W.
Hill worked his way up through cinematography and screenwriting to
finally begin directing films in the early 1920s. His later films took
on a stark, brutally realistic atmosphere and were renowned for their
effective use of shadows in the lighting as in The Big House (1930), considered to
be his masterpiece. He was found dead in his beach house in 1934,
victim of an apparent suicide.
