George Roy Hill for our friend, Monsieur Hill." Hill rebuilt his Hollywood reputation with the Julie Andrews movie "Thoroughly Modern Millie", then "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and, after "Slaughterhouse-Five", "The Sting". Both "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting" starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford. "Butch Cassidy" won four Academy Awards; "The Sting" won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The success of those two films meant that, for a time, Hill was the sole director in history to have made two of the top 10 moneymaking films. Hill disliked tardiness on set. Paul Newman said of his time (as
Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman Robert G. Newman (* October 26th 1937 in The Hague; † August 1st 2018 in New York City) was an US-american physician, scientist, health manager and philanthroph. Robert Gabriel Newman was born in The Hague, Netherlands, as child of german emigrants. At that time his parents, as jews, were on the escape from national-socialist Germany. The father, Rudolph Neumann (later Randolph Newman), and the mother Eva Neumann born Feilchenfeldt (later Eva Newman) both were legal practitioners. The family then moved to New York City in August 1939. After the end of WW2 Newman for some years lived