Jack Hill (actor)
Jack Hill was an American film actor and stuntman, who appeared in scores of Laurel & Hardy comedies.
A native of Roanoke, Virginia, Hill was on the middle child of three born to Dr. John Peter Hill and Arkansas Missouri Paxton.
Hill had a prominent roles in early Our Gang shorts, such as A Quiet Street, portraying the film's villain, "Red Mike," a thief who easily eludes capture by the film's Keystone-ish cops only to find he's gotten more than he bargained for when pitted against the Gang's relentless protector, Pete the Dog.
By the final decade of his career, Hill had, by his own account, transitioned to working primarily as a stuntman and stunt double.
On October 3, 1929, Hill married Reba Lucas Roberts; they divorced on August 20, 1937. On September 4, 1941, he wed Ethel Violet Henrickson. From 1949 until his death, Hill was married to Freda Wilhelmina Johnson.
On Friday, November 22, 1963, Hill died at the Motion Picture Country Hospital. His remains are interred at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.
Selected filmography
A Quiet Street - Red Mike Back Stage - Audience memberDogs of War! - OfficerStage Fright - Audience memberThe Fighting Demon - ProfessorGood Cheer - Pedestrian45 Minutes from Hollywood - Hotel Guest The Glorious Fourth - Man with monocleSugar Daddies - Hotel Extra #1Putting Pants on Philip The Battle of the Century - Ringside Spectator Playin' Hookey - Keystone-ish copLeave 'Em Laughing - Irate Motorist Speedy - Minor Role Their Purple Moment - Doorman / Pink Pub Patron Should Married Men Go Home? - Muddy Combatant Two Tars - Motorist with MattressElection Day - GangsterLiberty - OfficerWrong Again - Man on BuckboardMovie Night - Movie Patron Railroadin' - Grocery Truck Driver Leaping Love - Minor Role Cat, Dog & Co. - Pedestrian Blotto - Man in Rainbow Club Le joueur de golf - La Vida nocturna - Minor Role Below Zero - Busboy Une nuit extravagante Pups Is Pups - Man in Crowd Be Big! - Railway Station Passerby The Stolen Jools - PolicemanPardon Us - Insurgent Convict Shiver My Timbers - PirateBeau Hunks - Riffian The Kick-Off! - Minor Role On the Loose - Fun House Worker Any Old Port! - Spectator The Chimp - Circus Audience Member Pack Up Your Troubles - New Recruit / Pedestrian Free Wheeling - Police OfficerA Lad an' a Lamp - Audience Member / OfficerThe Devil's Brother - Brigand Busy Bodies - Shop Worker Elmer Steps Out Fishing for Trouble Back to the Soil Treasure Island - Pirate Babes in Toyland - Townsman The Chases of Pimple Street - Chase's Double Tit for Tat - Passerby The Fixer Uppers - Policeman Southern Exposure - Juryman Stolen Harmony - Cop Bonnie Scotland - Hotel Lobby Guest / Newly Drafted Soldier / Native Henchman Millions in the Air - Motor Cop Divot Diggers - GolferThe Bohemian Girl - Soldier The Lucky Corner - Crowd extraOn the Wrong Trek - Bit Part Our Relations - Pirate's Club Customer General Spanky - Minor Role Way Out West - Finn's Employee Pick a Star - Minor Role Swiss Miss - Townsman Block-Heads - Soldier in Trenches Topper Takes a Trip - Policeman in Bank Mooching Through Georgia - Union Officer Saps at Sea - Man Beneath Auto Land of the Lawless - Barfly Backfire - Cop at Shootout
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