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Quite a coincidence for me as I just finished seeing the first season of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE for my first time and greatly enjoyed Hill's performance as team leader Dan Briggs. I had first seen Hill in a 1989 Columbo episode. R.I.P.
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Aug 23, 2016 - 8:51 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Hill co-starred with Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft in the tense drama THE SLENDER THREAD. In the film, psychology student "Alan Newell" (Poitier), a volunteer worker at Seattle's Crisis Clinic, receives a phone call from "Inga Dyson" (Bancroft), a housewife and mother who has taken an overdose of sleeping pills but will not reveal where she can be reached. Steven Hill plays "Mark Dyson," Inga's husband, a fishing captain, who has discovered that their son is the product of a premarital affair. Sydney Pollack directed the feature, his first after four years of television directing. Quincy Jones' score was released on a Mercury LP, but has never been reissued on CD.
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I'm sure Bob will get around to RUNNING ON EMPTY, in which Hill had a small role but one of his best in a feature film. Hs final scene in a restaurant with his estranged daughter (Christine Lahti) is extremely poignant.
I read somewhere that in the late 1940's on Broadway, the consensus was that the two best up-and-coming young actors were Marlon Brando and Steven Hill. Watching his ten years on LAW & ORDER, I can believe it. Though he was often praised, I wonder if he knew how good he truly was. And I wish to hell he had written an autobiography which might have shed light on his troubled life and career, and best of all discussed his approach to his craft.
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Aug 25, 2016 - 12:46 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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In 1960, on an NBC television dramatic series called Sunday Showcase, Steven Hill co-starred in a two-part production called "The Sacco-Vanzetti Story," the real-life story of two Italian immigrants who were charged with murdering a paymaster and his guard in 1920 Massachusetts. Hill played the role of Bartolomeo Vanzetti. (Martin Balsam played Nicola Sacco.) The production was directed by Sidney Lumet. Twenty-four years later, Lumet directed Hill in GARBO TALKS, and four years after that came their third and last collaboration on the drama RUNNING ON EMPTY.
RUNNING ON EMPTY told the story of the eldest son (River Phoenix) of a fugitive family (Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch) who comes of age and wants to live a life of his own. Steven Hill plays the father of Lahti's character (Phoenix's grandfather). Roger Ebert called the scene when, after many years apart, Lahti meets with Hill to talk things over "the movie's emotional high point." The score for the film, by Tony Mottola, has not had a release.
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