Heather Hill obit

Heather Hill, Longtime ‘Young and the Restless’ Director, Dies at 85

She spent 15 years on the CBS soap opera and won six Daytime Emmys off 13 nominations.

 She was not on the list.

Heather Hill, the longtime Young and the Restless director who collected six Daytime Emmys for her work on the CBS soap opera, has died. She was 85.

Hill died Friday at her home in Las Vegas, a family spokesperson announced.

Hill was nominated for the Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team Emmy every year from 1988 through 2000, winning in 1988, ’89, ’96, ’97, ’98 and ’99. She shared three of those wins and one nom with her husband, Randall Hill.

Born in Rye, New York, Hill graduated from Rye Country Day School before beginning her TV career in New York in the 1970s as a production assistant on the CBS soap opera Love of Life. She quickly advanced through the ranks to become an assistant director and then a director.

During her years in New York in the ’80s, she also helmed episodes of CBS’ Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, CBS’ As the World Turns and NBC’s Search for Tomorrow.

In 1985, Hill relocated to Los Angeles and joined The Young and the Restless as a contract director, and during her 15-year tenure, she guided hundreds of episodes of the Genoa City-set show.

Her credits also included installments of ABC’s General Hospital and the internationally popular series Baywatch, which starred former Young and the Restless player David Hasselhoff as Dr. Snapper Foster. (The actor and the Hills were neighbors.)

In addition to her husband, survivors include her sons, Tim and Chris; daughter-in-law Debbie; and grandchildren Violet, Quinn, and Carter.

Director

Eileen Davidson, Bryton James, Joshua Morrow, Gina Tognoni, Justin Hartley, Melissa Claire Egan, and Peter Bergman in The Young and the Restless (1973)

The Young and the Restless

5.3

TV Series

Director

1986–2000

131 episodes

 

Pamela Anderson, Yasmine Bleeth, Alexandra Paul, David Hasselhoff, David Chokachi, Gena Lee Nolin, and Jaason Simmons in Baywatch (1989)

Baywatch

5.5

TV Series

Director

1992

1 episode

 

Jane Krakowski, Matthew Ashford, Domini Blythe, Colleen Dion, Terri Eoff, David Forsyth, Lee Godart, Louan Gideon, Marcia McCabe, Jeffrey Meek, Jacqueline Schultz, and Mary Stuart in Search for Tomorrow (1951)

Search for Tomorrow

7.0

TV Series

location

1983–1985

17 episodes

 

As the World Turns (1956)

As the World Turns

6.3

TV Series

Director

1980–1982

3 episodes

 

Love of Life (1951)

Love of Life

7.0

TV Series

late 1970s

1951–1980

 

Second Unit or Assistant Director

Donna Mills, Robert Burr, and Shawn Campbell in Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967)

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

7.7

TV Series

associate director

1973

2 episodes

 

Producer

The Catlins (1982)

The Catlins

6.3

TV Series

supervising producer

1983–1984

2 episodes