Craig Hill (born Craighill Fowler; March 5, 1926 – April 21, 2014) was an American film actor from

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Career

He began his film career as a contract star for

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beginning with ''

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''. He also appeared in Sam Fuller's ''

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'' (1951) and

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's '' What Price Glory'' as well as in a key role opposite

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in the 1951 crime drama ''

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''. After leaving Fox, he co-starred in Universal's '' The Black Shield of Falworth'' (1954) and appeared in several American television shows. He is best known for co-starring in the

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'' from 1957 to 1960, playing "P.T. Moore". In the mid-1960s, he moved to

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and gained a new series of fans as a lead actor in several

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s beginning with ''

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'' (1965). He starred in several Euro Horror films as well, including ''The Bloodstained Shadow'' (1978) and ''The Monsters of Terror'' (1970).

Personal life/death

Actor Ray Stricklyn says that he met Hill about Christmas 1955, and the two spent a year together in a homosexual relationship. Sticklyn says he broke up with Hill after he discovered Hill was seeing another man. In 1990, Hill wed Catalan fashion model and actress

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(born 1936), his co-star in the 1966 Spanish film '' Black Box Affair''. Hill died on April 21, 2014, at the age of 88 from

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Filmography

References

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* 1926 births 2014 deaths American male film actors Male actors from Los Angeles American expatriates in Spain Male Spaghetti Western actors {{US-film-actor-1920s-stub