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Arthur Hiller, OC (born 22 November 1923) is a Canadian television and film director, having directed over 33 major films during his 50-year career. He began his career directing television in Canada and later in the U.S. By the late 1950s he began directing films, most often comedies. He also directed award-winning dramas and romantic subjects, such as ''Love Story'', which was nominated for seven Oscars. Hiller collaborated on a number of films with award-winning screenwriters Paddy Chayefsky and Neil Simon. Among his other notable films were ''The Americanization of Emily'' (1964), ''Tobruk'' (1967), ''The Hospital'' (1971), ''The Out-of-Towners'' (1970), ''Plaza Suite'' (1971), ''The Man in the Glass Booth'' (1975) and ''The In-Laws'' (1979). Hiller served as president of the Directors Guild of America from 1989 to 1993 and president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1993 to 1997. He was the recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2002. An annual film festival in Hiller's honor was held from 2006 until 2009 at his alma mater, Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts. ==Early life== Hiller was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of Rose (Garfin) and Harry Hiller.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=filmreference.com )〕 His family was Jewish, and had immigrated from Poland in 1912. He had two sisters, one thirteen years older and one eleven years older. His father operated a second-hand musical instruments store in Edmonton. Hiller recalls that when he occasionally traveled home while he was still in college, the blacks he met with "treated me like a king. Why? Because they loved my father. They told me that unlike other shopkeepers, he treated them like normal folks when they went to his store. He didn't look down on them."〔Grodin, Charles. ''If I Only Knew Then . . . Learning from Our Mistakes'', Springboard Press (2007) p. 78〕 Although his parents were not professionals in theater or had much money, notes Hiller, they enjoyed putting on a Jewish play once or twice a year for the Jewish community of 450 people, mainly to keep in touch with their heritage. Hiller recalls the Yiddish theater they started up: After he graduated high school, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at the start of World War II and navigated bombers over enemy territory in Europe. After he returned from serving in the military, Hiller enrolled in and later graduated from University College, University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, followed by a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950. One of his first jobs after graduating was with Canadian radio directing various public affairs programs. Hiller remembers that he was still in college when Israel was declared an 'official' state "for the first time since the Romans expelled them:" 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Hiller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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