Robert F. Hill — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸

Twenty years ago, Robert F. Hill, now noted motion picture director, started on his professional career in the somewhat lowly capacity of dresser for Vaughan Glaser, general manager, producer and star of the Vaughan Glaser Stock Company, Seven years later Hill was Glaser’s stage director and heavy man of the same stock company. During his career on the speaking stage he participated in such well-known plays as Alias Jimmy Valentine, The College Widow, Old Heidelberg, When Knighthood Was in Flower, and scores of others.

Following his stage career he had the yen to write for the stage and screen, and he contributed many worthwhile stories to both. He wrote and directed “The Adventures of Tarzan.” He was the author of “Almost a Husband,” “Water, Water Everywhere,” “Jubilo,” “Upstairs,” and “Doctors Disagree.” He directed such photoplays as “Robinson Crusoe,” “The Radio King,” “The Social Buccaneer,” “Around the World in 18 Days,” “Shadows of the North,” “Crooked Alley,” “His Mystery Girl,” “The Breathless Moment,” “Jack O’ Clubs,” “Excitement,” “The Dangerous Blonde,” “Dark Stairways,” “Young Ideas,” and many others. His latest pictures are “Thoroughbreds,” adapted from the Gerald Beaumont race track story, and “Crimson Snow,” a Russian epic.

Hill gained considerable fame in a hero role off the stage in 1915, when he saved Mary Fuller, prominent as a reigning picture star, from a watery grave at Gloucester, Mass. He plunged into a rough sea and was himself caught in a series of combers, but succeeded in bringing the all but unconscious Miss Fuller safely to shore.

Hill is prominent and popular among the clubmen of Hollywood. He is a member of the Masonic order, of the Breakers, the 233 Club, and the Rainbow Trout Club. He is also one of the regular customers at Pasadena when the football season is in progress. He had a fling at auto salesmanship during a lull in his professional career, but as an auto salesman he was a good writer and motion picture director. He prefers his office at the Universal studio.

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Robert F. Hill — Director

Coming

• Thoroughbreds

Adapted from Gerald Beaumont’s famous race track Classic — Release title undetermined

also

• Isadore Bernstein’s Russian Epic “Crimson Snow”

Universal

Collection: Motion Picture News, October 1927 (Booking Guide and Studio Directory)