Louisa Horton Hill | Stage, film actress, 87

Louisa Horton Hill, 87, an actress and former wife of

The Sting

director George Roy Hill, has died.

Ms. Horton, who used her own name professionally, died Friday at Lillian Booth Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, N.J., her daughter-in-law, Sandy McCormick Hill, said Tuesday.

She made her film debut in 1948 in All My Sons opposite Burt Lancaster and Edward G. Robinson. Her movie credits include 1976's Swashbuckler, starring James Earl Jones and Robert Shaw. She appeared on Broadway in the 1940s, including as an understudy for the role of Sally in The Voice of the Turtle. In 1989, she played the mother of a lesbian daughter in the off-Broadway production The Blessing.

She met George Roy Hill while both were actors in a Shakespeare repertory company. They married in 1951 and remained close even after they divorced in the 1970s.

Ms. Horton was born in China and raised in Haiti and the Washington area. She lived in Manhattan for nearly 50 years.

- AP