“the Howard Hawks of exploitation filmmaking”. Hill's discoveries include Pam Grier, who starred in four of his films from The Big Doll House through Foxy Brown; Sid Haig, who acts in most of Hill's films, beginning with Spider Baby; and Ellen Burstyn, who starred in Pit Stop. His student film The Host was a partial influence on former classmate Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Hill recalled in a 2000s interview that when he made The Host, Film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon believed that for Hill and fellow low-budget auteur Monte Hellman, film was primarily a means of personal expression while remaining a "deeply financially dependent medium". Dixon wrote that Hill and Hellman's movies often were sufficiently successful while remaining true to their personal vision. Archive The moving image collection of Jack Hill is held at the Academy Film Archive. The Academy Film Archive preserved Spider Baby in 2013. Filmography Film crewBattle Beyond the Sun (1962) - additional cinematography The Wasp Woman (1962) (uncredited) - 20-minute introduction for TV syndication, shot in 1962 The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1963) - editor The Terror (1963) - uncredited director and co-writer City on Fire (1979) - writer Death Ship (1980) - writer As director The Host (short; made 1960-61) - director Mondo Keyhole (1966) - director Blood Bath (a.k.a. Track of the Vampire) (1966) - co-director Spider Baby (a.k.a. The Maddest Story Ever Told) (1967) - writer, director House of Evil (1968) (US scenes) - director Fear Chamber (1968) (US scenes) - director Pit Stop (1969) - director Ich, ein Groupie (a.k.a. Higher and Higher) (1970) (uncredited) - co-director The Snake People (1971) (US scenes) - director The Incredible Invasion (a.k.a. Alien Terror) (1971) (US scenes) - director The Big Doll House (1971) - director The Big Bird Cage (1972) - director Coffy (1973) - writer, director Foxy Brown (1974) - director The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) - writer, director Switchblade Sisters (1975) - writer, director Sorceress'' (1982) - writer, director (as Brian Stuart) References External links Interview with Jack Hill 1933 births Living people Girls with guns films Film directors from Texas Blaxploitation film directors