# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-roy-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:24:04.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-roy-hill"
name: "George Roy Hill"
slug: "george-roy-hill"
description: "George Roy Hill was an American film director. His films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), both starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Both films also earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director; he won for the latter."
tagline: "American film director (1921–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Roy_Hill_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1921-12-20"
deathDate: "2002-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump