Editing George Roy Hill (section)

==Personal life and death==
In the Margaret Webster theatre company, Hill met [[Louisa Horton]], whom he married on April 7, 1951. They later divorced. Hill was survived by Horton, their two sons, including George Roy Hill III and John Hill, two daughters, and 12 grandchildren.<ref name="CBSobit"/>

After his second return to civilian life, Hill bought an open-cockpit [[Waco Aircraft Company#Standard Cabin Biplanes|Waco biplane]] built in 1930, which he retained until about ten years before his death.<ref name="NY Times"/>

According to a 2012 article in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' by John Colapinto, Hill handpicked inexperienced 16-year-old actress Tippy Walker from hundreds of actresses who auditioned for the role of "Val" in the 1964 film ''[[The World of Henry Orient]]'' and then reshaped the film during editing to focus on her character. According to Colapinto, in the 2000s Walker revealed through a series of posts on IMDb that she and Hill began a relationship during filming that lasted throughout most of Walker's senior year in high school, even though Hill was married with children and, at age 44, nearly 30 years older than Walker.<ref name=colapinto>{{cite magazine |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-link=John Colapinto |date=2012-04-03 |title=A Star is Born, Lost, and Found |url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-star-is-born-lost-and-found |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |location=[[New York City]] |access-date=2015-12-12 }}</ref> In the posts Colapinto attributes to Walker, the retired actress describes being sexually assaulted by Hill as a 16-year-old while they were alone in his office<ref name=walker>{{cite magazine |magazine=The Fedora Lounge| last=Walker |first=Tippy |author-link=Tippy Walker |date=2007-04-15 |title=Tippy Walker & George Roy Hill|url=https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/tippy-walker-george-roy-hill.17451/|access-date=2024-02-25}}</ref> and states that Hill, without warning, began aggressively French-kissing her. Walker also claimed that Hill swore her to secrecy about the resulting relationship, then himself told others,<ref name=walker/> and she states the resulting Hollywood gossip made potential employers reluctant to cast her, contributing to her decision to stop acting in the early 1970s.<ref name=colapinto>{{cite magazine |last=Colapinto |first=John |author-link=John Colapinto |date=2012-04-03 |title=A Star is Born, Lost, and Found |url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-star-is-born-lost-and-found |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |location=[[New York City]] |access-date=2015-12-12 }}</ref>

Hill died from complications of [[Parkinson's disease]] at his home on the [[Upper East Side]] of [[Manhattan]] on December 27, 2002, aged 81.<ref name = "NY Times"/><ref name="Times"/>