Marianna Hill

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Marianna Hill
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Hill in Black Zoo, 1963
Born
Marianna Schwarzkopf

(1942-02-09) February 9, 1942 (age 83)
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Alma mater La Jolla Playhouse
Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
Actors Studio
OccupationActress
Years active1960–2005
Known for High Plains Drifter
El Condor
Batman
Star Trek
Messiah of Evil
The Godfather Part II
Children2

Marianna Hill (born Marianna Schwarzkopf; February 9, 1942) is an American actress who is known for her starring roles in the Western films El Condor (1970) and High Plains Drifter and the cult horror film Messiah of Evil (both 1973), as well as many roles on television series in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Early life and education

Hill was born Marianna Schwarzkopf, in Santa Barbara, California, [1] on February 9, 1942, [1] to architect Frank Schwarzkopf and writer Mary Hawthorne Hill, who worked as a script doctor. United States Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was her second cousin. [2]

Her father, a building contractor, [3] worked in several countries, which resulted in Hill's education in California, Spain, and Canada. During her teenage years, her family settled in southern California when her father purchased a restaurant there. [2]

Career

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Hill with Clu Gulager as Billy the Kid in The Tall Man
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Hill in El Condor

Hill's initial acting experience came when she was an apprentice at the Laguna Playhouse. She then worked three summers at the La Jolla Playhouse, and later gained more experience at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. [2] [4] She was a life member of The Actors Studio [5] as of January 1980. She adopted her mother's surname ("Hill") as her professional surname. She appeared in more than 70 films and television episodes.

Her film debut came in Married Too Young (1962). [2] She played Gabrielle in the Howard Hawks film, Red Line 7000 (1965) and featured in the Elvis Presley film Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966); the Haskell Wexler political film Medium Cool (1969); the western El Condor (1970); the Clint Eastwood film High Plains Drifter (1973) as Callie Travers; the cult classic horror-thriller film The Baby (1973); and in The Godfather Part II (1974) as Deanna Dunn-Corleone, Fredo Corleone's hard-drinking wife. [6]

Hill guest-starred in several 1960s sitcoms, including My Three Sons , Hogan's Heroes and Love, American Style , as well as in the original Star Trek series ("Dagger of the Mind", 1966, as Dr. Helen Noel) and Perry Mason ("The Case of the Greek Goddess", 1963, as Theba). She guest-starred in The High Chaparral ; Bonanza ; Death Valley Days ; Gunsmoke ; The Wild Wild West ; Dr. Kildare ; The F.B.I. ; Quincy, M.E. ; S.W.A.T. ; Kung Fu ; The Outer Limits ; Mannix ; Batman ; Daniel Boone ; The Tall Man ; Mission: Impossible ; and the first pilot movie for Harry O . Her last television appearance was in a 1984 episode of Remington Steele .

After moving to New York to teach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, Hill moved to England in 1988 to teach at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London. She remained there until its closure in 2001. [7] Hill continued to teach at the Method Studio in London, and made an appearance in the 2005 British film Coma Girl: The State of Grace , a part she got through the association of one of her students with the film's writer and director Dina Jacobsen.

Her last American film was Chief Zabu , which was filmed on the campus of Bard College in New York in 1986. The film was not released until 2016. [8] [9] In a rare public appearance, Hill attended the premier of the movie at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale Film Festival. [10]

Hill lives in the UK. She teaches acting privately and at acting workshops. She was scheduled to make an appearance at the Destination Star Trek Germany convention in June 2021; however, the convention was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [11]

Filmography

Film

Television

Marianna Hill television credits
YearTitleRoleNotes
1960–1961 The Tall Man Rita5 episodes
1960–1962 77 Sunset Strip Silvana Mello4 episodes
1963 Perry Mason ThebaEpisode: "The Case of the Greek Goddess"
1963 Gunsmoke AnnieEpisode: "Pa Hack's Brood" (S9.E13)
1964 Dr. Kildare Gina Craig1 episode
1964 Bonanza Dolores TeninoEpisode: "Ponderosa Matador" (S5.E15)
1964 Death Valley Days Tula1 episode
1964 Outer Limits Nina LinkEpisode: "I, Robot" (S2.E9)
1966 Batman Cleo Patrick / Cleopatra2 episodes
1966 Star Trek: The Original Series Dr. Helen NoelEpisode: "Dagger of the Mind" (S1.E9)
1967 My Three Sons Denise Dubose1 episode
1967 The Wild Wild West Belladonna1 episode
1968 Mission Impossible Luisa RojasEpisode: "The Condemned" (S2.E19)
1968–1969 Mannix Marcie / Ellen Barton2 episodes
1969 The F.B.I. Antonia Marin1 episode
1969 Mayberry RFD Renee1 episode
1969 The High Chaparral Juanita1 episode
1969 Hogan's Heroes Eskimo / LousiaEpisode: "The Gasoline War"
1970 Love American Style Angelica StoneSegment: "Love and the Gangster"
1970 Daniel Boone Nancy Hanks1 episode
1973 Harry O Mildred1 episode
1974 Kung Fu Louise CoblenzEpisode: "The Passion of Chen Yi" (S2.E19)
1976 Death at Love House Lorna LoveTV movie
1976 S.W.A.T. Kate DeversEpisode: "Soldier on the Hill" (S2.E23)
1977 Quincy, M.E. Lisa1 episode
1984 Remington Steele Brenda Flowers1 episode

References

  1. 1 2 "Marianna Hill - The Private Life and Times of Marianna Hill. Marianna Hill Pictures". glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lisanti, Tom (2007). Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles. McFarland. pp. 93–96. ISBN   9781476612416 . Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ Wilson, Earl (December 4, 1965). "It Happened Last Night". The Central New Jersey Home News. New Brunswick, NJ. p. 6. Retrieved April 21, 2025– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  4. ↑ Heffernan, Harold (June 1, 1966). "Marianna Hill Talked Way into 5-Year Film Contract". The Morning Call. Paterson, NJ. p. 33. Retrieved April 21, 2025– via Newspapers.com. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  5. ↑ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio . New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p.  278. ISBN   0-02-542650-8.
  6. ↑ Hal Erickson (2015). "Marianna Hill profile". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on August 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ [https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/strasberg-london-school-closes-33104/ "Strasberg London School Closes", backstage.com. February 21, 2001.
  8. ↑ Interview with Neil Cohen, creativehudsonvalley.com. Accessed July 22, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Missing for 30 years, a Trumpian satire finds its pop-culture moment", South Florida Sun Sentinel, November 1, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  10. ↑ "Hill at the 2016 Fort Lauderdale Film Festival". facebook.com. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Marianna Hill - Destination Star Trek". destinationstartrekgermany.com. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
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