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Thomas Newton Hill, Jr. (June 2, 1927 – April 20, 2009) was an Indian-born American character actor and director on stage for decades before starting in film in the mid-1960s and on television in the 1980s. Early life Thomas Newton Hill, Jr. was born in India in 1927, to Disciples of Christ missionaries Thomas Newton Hill, Sr. and Elma Alexander Hill. Thomas, Jr. attended Woodstock School until 1940 when he was 13; he and his parents moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Then, he attended and graduated from Richmond High School, in Richmond, IN. Career Hill's first feature film performance was in the 1965 film The Slender Thread. Other film credits include The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Firefox (1982), and as the bookstore owner Mr. Coreander in The NeverEnding Story and its first sequel. One of Hill's most prominent recurring roles was as the zany sidekick Jim Dixon on the 1980s TV series Newhart. Hill appeared as King Baaldorf in the short-lived 1980s fantasy TV series Wizards and Warriors. His TV movie roles include Father Andrew Doyle in the 1984 NBC miniseries V: The Final Battle. He had guest appearances on such shows as St. Elsewhere, Remington Steele, The Facts of Life, Married... with Children, Coach, and Law & Order. Personal life In 2003, Hill retired to Bloomington, Indiana. He died from a heart attack on April 20, 2009, at age 81. Filmography References External links Thomas Hill at IMDb. Discover the Thomas Hill popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Thomas Hill books.
Best Seller Thomas Hill Books of 2024
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The Magician
Colm TóibínA New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical FictionNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, a...
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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard KiplingOriginally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life. For t...
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Evelina
Frances BurneyLeaving the secluded home of her guardian for the first time, beautiful Evelina Anville is captivated by her new surroundings in London's beau monde and in particular by the hands...
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Believing
Anita Hill“An elegant, impassioned demand that America see genderbased violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors… It's at times downri...
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The Trump Women
Nina BurleighNew York Times bestselling author and awardwinning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump’s attitudes toward women by providing indepth analysis and background on the wom...
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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
Nick Laird & A.E. HousmanA. E. Housman was one of the bestloved poets of his day, whose poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss. They are expressed in simple ...
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The Year of Surprising Acts of Kindness
Laura Kemp'Witty, Warm, and Wonderful. I loved it!' Milly JohnsonSometimes all it takes to make the world a better place is a small act of kindness...'A truly wonderful and heartwarming read...
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Supreme Discomfort
Kevin Merida & Michael Fletcher“[An] impeccably researched and probing biography . . . invaluable for any understanding of the court’s most controversial figure.”The New York Times Book Review A sweeping, compel...
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Watergate
Garrett M. GraffFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yesthis one.” The Washington Post “Dazzli...
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The Treasure Chest
Johann Hebel & John HibberdA wonderful collection of moral tales, anecdotes, jokes, reports of murders, disasters and mysteries, all originally written for inclusion in a popular religious almanac.
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The Toll House
Carly ReagonDiscover the spinetingling ghost story everyone is raving about:'If you like a good ghost story put this chilling thriller to the very top of your reading list' Sarah Pearse autho...
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Echoes
Ellen DatlowThe essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genreincluding stories from awardwinning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oa...
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Bunker Hill
Nathaniel PhilbrickThe bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in thi...
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Let Love Have the Last Word
Common“An insightful memoir that uncovers unique stories about matters of the heart.” EssenceThe inspiring New York Times bestseller from Commonthe Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golde...
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Desire of the Everlasting Hills
Thomas CahillNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesusan obscure rabbi from a backwater of th...
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The Irish Brigade
Russ A. PritchardA FullColor History for Civil War Enthusiasts, History Buffs, and Anyone Interested in the Saga of the Irish in America! The Union’s Irish Brigade, the Civil War’s most famous figh...
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Pretty Mess
Erika JayneNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWithout her alterego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”so get ready for the dishy, tellall memoir from showsto...
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Wilderness Reform
Matt Query & Harrison QueryThe authors of the “impossible to put down” (The Guardian) thriller Old Country return with a terrifying novel about a wilderness camp for troubled teens that is plagued by mysteri...
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Poems of Thomas Hardy
Claire Tomalin & Thomas HardyThomas Hardy wrote some of the most moving and personal poems in his era and this collection brings together the best of his verse on life and love.Hardy's poems are by turn haunti...
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins & Matthew SweetThe Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into...
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Trousdale Estates
Steven M. PriceFilled with beautiful, vivid photographs, Trousdale is the definitive history of the architecture and design that defined both Beverly Hills and the ultimate American Dream.Trousda...
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Letters from the Dead
Sam Hurcom'Gothic, claustrophobic, and wonderfully dark' GUARDIAN on Sam Hurcom's Thomas Bexley novels...The next stifling, atmospheric gothic crime novel following one of the world's first ...
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The Guru and the Dictator
Thomas ShorIn this riveting true story, Thomas K. Shor, an American writer with an ear for unusual stories, wanders into a Sikkimese mountain village and into the life of an enigmatic spiritu...
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Outrage on Gallows Hill
George BellairsIn Melchester, Thomas Littlejohn hunts the killer of a strangled poet The war is over and blackouts are a thing of the past, except in the village of Melchester, where the local co...
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Never Close Your Eyes
Emma BurstallEvie, Nic and Becca are wannabe writers. The three friends are members of a creative writing group and they decide to enter a national competition. But while they ponder their plot...
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Idyll Hands
Stephanie GayleIn the small, sleepy town of Idyll, Connecticut, Police Chief Thomas Lynch assists police officer Michael Finnegan to uncover clues to his sister's disappearance two decades ago. C...
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Speaking Truth to Power
Anita HillTwentsix years before the #metoo movement, Anita Hill sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace when she testified against Clarence Thomas.After her ...
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My Mamma Mia Summer
Annie RobertsonEscape to Greece for sunshine, music, laughter and a sprinkling of romance.... The feelgood novel you need in 2021!One summer... One dream... One chance to make it happen.Laurel ha...
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The Blue And Distant Hills
Judith SaxtonA young girl's search for her identity and for a love that can overcome her past.Questa Adamson is stranded in Italy for the duration of the Second World War. When she finally retu...
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A Taste for Love
Marita Conlon-McKennaAlice loves to cook. She believes the secret of good food is to cook with passion. Her love affair with cookery has taken her from her parents' seaside hotel, to Paris and then one...
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Killing England
Bill O'Reilly & Martin DugardThe Revolutionary War as never told before.This breathtaking installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s megabestselling Killing series transports readers to the most importan...
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The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
Corey RobinThe Enigma of Clarence Thomas is a groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.“One of the marvels of Robin’s razorsharp book...
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Cobble Hill
Cecily von ZiegesarThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl series brings her sharpeyed and irresistible wit to this “quirky novel of lovable misfits” (Publishers Weekly) chronicli...
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Hope and Happiness in Bluebell Wood
Ali McNamaraAn Ali McNamara novel is the perfect escape.Welcome to Bluebell Wood where the sun shines, the locals are kind and there's something more than a little bit magical about the place....
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Decisive Day
Richard M. KetchumRichard M. Ketchum recounts the early developments of the American Revolution in Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill. Boston, 1775: A town occupied by General Thomas Gage's re...
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The Italian Holiday
Victoria SpringfieldShortlisted for the RNA's Joan Hessayon Award for New WritersSun, sea and spaghetti... Italy was Bluebell's dream destination, but taking her granny's place on the Loving and ...
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Three Women
Marita Conlon-McKennaKate Cassidy is about to celebrate twenty five years of marriage to Paddy. But the secret she has kept all this time is about to be discovered.Erin Harris has always known that she...
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Liberty Is Sweet
Woody HoltonA “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette GordonReed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooke...
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The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales
Gerald Of Wales, Betty Radice & Lewis ThorpeScholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of...
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A Short History of Australia
Manning ClarkOn 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones t...
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Riding in the Zone Rouge
Tom Isitt'An evocatively thoughtful wider history of the race, the war and the peace' GUARDIAN'Occasionally funny and regularly poignant, brilliantly focused in its research . . . His drive...