Former Marine pilot George Roy Hill began his career as an actor, debuting with Cyril Cusack's company at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. He scored a personal success in Strindberg's "The Creditors" (1950) at the Cherry Lane Theatre, before concentrating on writing and directing for American TV in the 1950s. He scripted and acted in his first work for NBC's "Kraft Television Theatre", the autobiographical "My Brother's Keeper" (1953), inspired by his pilot's experience of being "talked down" by a ground controller, and "A Night to Remember" (also for "Kraft"), a drama about the sinking of the
