Broken Trail

Walter Hill

“Walter Hill is recognized as one of the premiere action filmmakers of the contemporary cinema, a skilled visual stylist whose narrative use of chase and confrontation has produced a gallery of both commercial and critically acclaimed motion pictures over the past three decades.” -- The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers

At the end of 2005, Walter Hill’s work was honored at the Turin Film Festival and at the Paris Cinematheque.

During a retrospective of his work at London’s National Film Theatre, Observer film critic Philip French wrote: “Hill’s mentors are Hawks, Walsh and Ford, and he belongs in their tradition of narrative cinema. His movies are pared-down fables, centering on mysterious loners who live by private codes on the margins and in the interstices of American life… There is a romantic wistfulness about most of his characters and his films have an astonishing, painterly beauty, and their scores, redolent of the blues and folk music, contribute to the feeling of visual balladry.”

Hill recently won an Emmy? and a DGA Award for the pilot of “Deadwood.”

His credits as a director include "Hard Times," "The Driver," "The Warriors," "The Long Riders," "Southern Comfort," "48 Hrs.," "Streets of Fire," "Brewster’s Millions," "Crossroads," "Extreme Prejudice," "Red Heat," "Johnny Handsome," "Another 48 Hrs.," "Trespass," "Geronimo: An American Legend," "Wild Bill," "Last Man Standing" and "Undisputed."

Hill began as a screenwriter with "The Getaway" and "The Drowning Pool," and receives a screenplay credit, in collaboration with other writers, on many of his films as a director. He produced the box office hit “Alien,” co-wrote the story for its sequel and received a producer credit on all the subsequent films in the Alien series.