Charlie Hill

 Charles Allan Hill (July 6, 1951 – December 30, 2013) changed into a Native American stand-up comic, actor, and member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin.[1] He wrote for the tv collection, Roseanne.[2] He changed into the primary Native American to be a TV comedy stand-up star.

Early lifestyles and education Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1951, he moved as an infant together along with his own circle of relatives after they again to their abode at the Oneida reservation in 1962. In 1969, he graduated from West De Pere High School and enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he majored in speech and drama. He changed into worried withinside the Broom Street Theatre Group. During the early 1970s, he changed into a member of Hanay Geiogomah's Native American Theatre Ensemble. Among different productions, the ensemble achieved Coyote Tracks and Foghorn at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club withinside the East Village of Manhattan, in which the ensemble changed into the residence.[3] The ensemble additionally toured Germany in 1973[4][5] and the US in 1974.[6] After college, Hill moved to Los Angeles and labored as an actor and comic.[7] Career Hill's first community look changed into on The Richard Pryor Show in 1977. He additionally seemed on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,[8] The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and made more than one appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.[2] Hill changed into selected to host the First Americans withinside the Arts awards display in Hollywood 3 times. One time, he co-hosted with the Oneida singer Joanne Shenandoah.[9] As a stand-up comic, he seemed in venues the world over and changed into an ordinary at The Comedy Store in Hollywood.[10] Hill seemed on many tv shows and hosted nighttime of Native American comedians on a Showtime special. He changed into the situation of the PBS documentary On and Off The Res with Charlie Hill (1999), directed by Sandra Osawa.[2] Hill changed into interviewed approximately American Indian Movement activist Dennis Banks withinside the documentary A Good Day to Die.[11] Hill starred withinside the 1984 movie Harold of Orange, written through Gerald Vizenor.[12] Awards and reputation 2009: Ivy Bethune Tri-Union Diversity Award 2010: "Native America at the Web" venerated Hill for his "life of selling advantageous pics of Native Peoples and bridging cultural variations thru the restoration strength of humor" 2022: On July 6, the Google Doodle changed into a commitment to Hill in reputation of his tough dangerous stereotypes withinside the amusement enterprise in addition to being the primary Native comic to be on countrywide tv.[13] Selected movie and tv credits 2010: A Good Day to Die (Hill is interviewed approximately Dennis Banks) 2009: Reel Injun (documentary; comedy ordinary through Hill) 2009: Goin' Native: The Indian Comedy Slam – No Reservations Needed (tv movie) 2009: The Longest Walk Through Hollywood (documentary) 2004–2006: Late Show with David Letterman 2005: CBC Winnipeg Comedy Festival (tv collection) 2004: City Confidential (tv documentary) 1999: On and Off the Res with Charlie Hill (documentary) 1996: White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men (documentary brief) 1996: Moesha (tv collection) 1995: Roseanne 1993: North of 60 (tv collection) 1992: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1986: Impure Thoughts 1985: MacGruder and Loud (tv collection) 1985: Spenser (tv collection) 1985: Late Night with David Letterman 1984: Earthlings (tv movie) 1984: Harold of Orange (brief movie) 1980: The Big Show (tv collection) 1978: The Bionic Woman (tv collection) 1977: The Richard Pryor Show Death Hill died on December 30, 2013, in Oneida, Wisconsin, of lymphoma.[14][15] References Charlie Hill profile. The New York Times. Accessed December 31, 2013. NPR profile of Charlie Hill Archived May 31, 2021, on the Wayback Machine. National Public Radio. Accessed December 31, 2013. La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Production: Native American Theatre Ensemble's Coyote Tracks and Foghorn (1973)". Accessed February 15, 2020. Archived February 15, 2020, on the Wayback Machine La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Tour + Troupe Files ➔ Program: "Coon Tracks the Coyote" and "Foghorn" (Berlin)". February 15, 2020. Archived February 15, 2020, on the Wayback Machine La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Core Photograph Files ➔ Production Photographs: "Foghorn" in Berlin (1973)". Accessed February 15, 2020. Archived February 15, 2020, on the Wayback Machine La MaMa Archives Digital Collections. "Tour + Troupe Files ➔ Reviews, Programs, Correspondence: Native American Theatre Ensemble US Tour (1974)". Accessed February 15, 2020. Archived February 15, 2020, on the Wayback Machine "Ryan Funeral Home & Crematory | De Pere, WI". RyanFH.com. Archived from the authentic on August 8, 2018. Retrieved August 8, 2018. Kendra Meinert, "Groundbreaking Oneida comic Charlie Hill dies at 62" Green Bay Press-Gazette, December 31, 2013. Accessed May 26, 2014. Charlie Hill: The Indian Spirit is American Archived January 1, 2014, on the Wayback Machine (Kumeyaay). "Charles Hill" Archived December 12, 2013, on the Wayback Machine, The Comedy Store. "A Good Day to Die transcript". Journeyman. tv. Archived from the authentic on August 8, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2016. "Best Native Films in Variety". November 18, 2020. Archived from the authentic on November 24, 2020. Retrieved November 27, 2020. "Today's #GoogleDoodle Celebrates the Native American Stand-up Comedy Legend, Charlie Hill, ... - Latest Tweet through Google Doodles | 👍 LatestLY". LatestLY. July 6, 2022. Archived from the authentic on July 6, 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2022. "Indian Country Today Media Network: Comedian Charlie Hill Walks On". Archived from the authentic on January 1, 2014. Retrieved December 30, 2013. ""Warrior of Comedy" Charlie Hill Has Walked On at 62". Native News Online. December 30, 2013. Archived from the authentic on December 15, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2018.