Celebrity Biographies
Craig Hill
He was involved as a secondary in major titles, before specializing in series B. Craig Hill, American by birth, settled for love in Spanish territory, where he shot numerous spaghetti-westerns. The actor died on April 21, 2014, at the age of 88, in Barcelona, where he had lived for a long time.
Born on March 5, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, Craig Hill Fowler first appeared credited in the highly celebrated Naked Eve , where he had a very minor role, a leading man.
Despite this promising start, all was not smooth sailing for Craig Hill . Subsequently, he seemed to specialize in army officers, a role he reprized in A Fixed Bayonet , The Price of Glory, and Siege at Red River . After taking part without much success in some other titles, such as Black Shell and Tammy, the wild girl , as well as in some television series, he realized that triumph in Hollywood was resisting him.
Offers came to him from Europe to play leading characters in spaghetti westerns whose directors were eager to have an actor with an American name in the credits. Thus, since the mid-1960s, he headed the lineup of titles such as Twilight of a Gunslinger , by Rafael Romero Marchent , Bounty Hunter , by Tonino Valerii , or Fifteen Gallows for an Assassin , by Nunzio Malasomma . None were especially memorable, but they played on billboards, before an audience in need of entertaining products.
In Spain he found love, as he got together with the model and actress Teresa Gimpera , whom he even accompanied on screen in Las amigas , by Pedro Lazaga . The couple married in 1990.
In the last stage of his career, Craig Hill worked with Bigas Luna , in Angustia , and in Manjar de amor , by Ventura Pons . His last job was the director of Coca Cola whom the protagonists wanted to use as an intermediary with the President of the United States in Flying Saucers , by Óscar Aibar , dating from 2003.