Jerome Hill
Director
Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist. He was educated at Yale, where he drew covers, caricatures and cartoons for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. His 1950 documentary Grandma Moses, written and narrated by Archibald MacLeish, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel. He won the 1957 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Albert Schweitzer. In addition to making films, he was a painter and composer. His last film, the autobiographical Film Portrait (1973), was added to the National Film Registry in 2003. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jerome Hill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born1905-03-02
Place of BirthSt. Paul, Minnesota
Known For
9.0
Lamp Unto My Feet
Drama
6.5
Albert Schweitzer
DocumentaryHistory
6.0
Film Portrait
Documentary
Cassis
5.2
The Magic Umbrella
Fantasy
6.7
Grandma Moses
Documentary
6.4
La cartomancienne
RomanceDrama
Carl G. Jung by Jerome Hill or Lapis Philosophorum
Documentary
7.0
Open the Door and See all the People
Comedy
5.8
The Canaries
Animation
Ski Flight
Documentary
Merry Christmas
Animation
C. G. Jung at Bollingen Tower Retreat
Documentary
7.7
The Sand Castle
Comedy
Schweitzer and Bach
The Artist's Friend
5.1
Death in the Forenoon
Animation