Roger Hill obit

Roger Hill, Who Played Cyrus in ‘The Warriors,’ Dies at 65

 

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Roger Hill, who played gang leader Cyrus in Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic “The Warriors,” died Thursday in New York. He was 65.

Hill spent nearly 20 years as an actor, working mostly in theater. He was an early participant in the Frank Silvera Writers’ Workshop and appeared in Off Broadway and touring productions of Charles Gordone’s “No Place to Be Somebody,” Ed Bullins’ “The Fabulous Miss Marie” and “Hamlet.”

But the role with which he made the biggest impression was the charismatic but doomed gang lord Cyrus in Paramount’s “The Warriors.” He also played Alec Lowndes on ABC’s “One Life to Live” from 1982-85.

In 2005 he filed a lawsuit of $250,000 against Rockstar Games for using his voice and depicting him in the videogame based on “The Warriors.”

Born and raised in New York City, Hill graduated from the City College of New York. In later years, he left acting and spent time working as a part=time librarian and writing poetry.

He is survived by his only son, film editor Chris W. Hill.

Filmography

Film

Year     Film            Role            Notes

1974    The Education of Sonny Carson            John 'Lil John'          

1979    The Warriors            Cyrus  

Television

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1976            Hazard's People            Ernest Clay     TV Movie

1979    One Upon a Classic            Chingachgook 1 episode

1980    Doctor Franken            Anesthesiologist            TV Movie

1982            American Playhouse            Second Man At Barbecue            1 episode: "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf"

1982–1985            One Life to Live            Alec Lowndes            3 episodes