Marianna Hill

Marianna Hill
Hill in Black Zoo (1963)
Born Marianna Schwarzkopf
(1942-02-09) February 9, 1942
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.[1]
Other names Mariana Hill
Marianne Hill
Marianna Renfred
Occupation Actress
Years active 1960–2005
Website Official website

Marianna Hill (born February 9, 1942), sometimes credited as Mariana Hill, is an American actress[2] who has predominantly worked in American television and is known for her starring role in the feature western film High Plains Drifter (1973) as well as many roles on television series in the 1960s and 1970s.

Early years

Hill was born Marianna Schwarzkopf in Santa Barbara, California[3] to architect Frank Schwarzkopf and Mary Hawthorne Hill, a writer who worked as a script doctor. U.S. Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. was a cousin. Her father, a building contractor, 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.[4]

Career

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.[4]

She was a life member of The Actors Studio[5] as of January of 1980.

She adopted her mother's surname ("Hill") as her professional surname. She has appeared in more than 70 films and television episodes, most recently in Chief Zabu (2016). Her film debut came in Married Too Young (1962).[4] She played Gabrielle in the Howard Hawks film, Red Line 7000 (1965) and co-starred in the Elvis Presley films Roustabout (1964) and Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966); the Clint Eastwood film High Plains Drifter (1973) as Callie Travers; and in The Godfather Part II (1974) as Deanna Dunn-Corleone.[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 Bonanza, Death Valley Days, The High Chaparral, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West, The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, Quincy, M.E., S.W.A.T., Kung Fu, The Outer Limits, Mannix, Batman, Daniel Boone, The Tall Man and the first pilot movie for Harry O.[7]

Clu Gulager with Hill in The Tall Man

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ Marianna Schwarzkopf, Family Search.org
  2. ↑ Variety Staff (December 31, 1969). "Review: 'The Traveling Executioner'". Variety.
  3. ↑ Marianna Schwarzkopf, Family Search.org
  4. 1 2 3 Lisanti, Tom (2007). Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles. McFarland. pp. 93–96. ISBN 9781476612416. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
  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. ↑ "Marianna Hill profile". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ Marianna Hill on IMDb
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