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name: "James Hill"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-hill-14568"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 August 1916"
died: "11 January 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T03:34:59.418054+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# James Hill

Producer. Born 1 August 1916 in Indiana. Died 11 January 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 August 1916, Indiana
- **Died:** 11 January 2001
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hill_(American_film_producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212236, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0384343/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14568

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Separate Tables*](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md) (74)

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## Biography

James Hill (1 August 1916 – 11 January 2001) was an American film producer and screenwriter. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he came to Hollywood as a writer and worked on films and television for Warner Brothers and CBS. He later joined producer Harold Hecht and actor Burt Lancaster, becoming an equal partner in their company, which was renamed Hecht-Hill-Lancaster Productions in 1957.

Hill produced or served as executive producer on films including *Vera Cruz* (1954), *Trapeze* (1956), *Sweet Smell of Success* (1957), *Run Silent, Run Deep* (1958), *Separate Tables* (1958) and *The Unforgiven* (1960). He was married to actress Rita Hayworth from 1958 to 1961; they met during the production of *Separate Tables*. He died in Santa Monica, California.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Separate Tables* (1958), Fi1m 74, Presenter, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Storm Seekers* (2009), as Driver
- *Worzel Gummidge Down Under* (1987), series, Director
- *The Unforgiven* (1960), Producer
- *Thunder in the Sun* (1959), Story
- *Separate Tables* (1958), Producer, Presenter — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md)
- *Run Silent, Run Deep* (1958), Producer
- *Sweet Smell of Success* (1957), as Man Outside Theatre (uncredited) · Producer
- *Trapeze* (1956), Producer
- *Vera Cruz* (1954), Producer
- *His Majesty O'Keefe* (1954), Screenplay
- *The Beulah Show* (1950), series, Writer
- *Keeping Company* (1940), Screenplay

## Gallery

- ![James Hill](https://film.one/media/person/1239726/gallery-96b04514e6b4.jpg) James Hill — Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/James_Hill_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-James_Hill_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![James Hill and Rita Hayworth, 1958](https://film.one/media/person/1239726/gallery-98e1208a710c.jpg) James Hill and Rita Hayworth, 1958 — Dell Publishing, 1958. Photographer not credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/James_Hill_and_Rita_Hayworth%2C_1958.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photograph of Rita Hayworth and James Hill obtaining their marriage license Caption on photograph run in the Cedar Rapids Gazette reads as follows: RITA GETS A  (1958)](https://film.one/media/person/1239726/gallery-53b8fc8966c0.jpg) Photograph of Rita Hayworth and James Hill obtaining their marriage license Caption on photograph run in the Cedar Rapids Gazette reads as follows: RITA GETS A  (1958) — Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Hayworth-Hill-1958-cropped.jpg/1280px-Hayworth-Hill-1958-cropped.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Photograph of Rita Hayworth and James Hill obtaining their marriage license Caption on photograph run in the Cedar Rapids Gazette reads as follows: RITA GETS A  (1958)](https://film.one/media/person/1239726/gallery-3d52184ec00d.jpg) Photograph of Rita Hayworth and James Hill obtaining their marriage license Caption on photograph run in the Cedar Rapids Gazette reads as follows: RITA GETS A  (1958) — Associated Press, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Hayworth-Hill-1958.jpg/1280px-Hayworth-Hill-1958.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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