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American film director (1963–2010)

George Loening Hickenlooper III^[1][2] (May 25, 1963 – October 29, 2010) was an American narrative and documentary filmmaker.

Early life

Hickenlooper was born in St. Louis, the son of Barbara Jo Wenger, a social worker and stage actress, and George Loening Hickenlooper, Jr., a teacher and playwright.^[3][4][5] He was also the grand nephew of British-born conductor Leopold Stokowski through marriage to his great aunt, pianist Olga Samaroff (whose birth name was Lucy Mary Agnes Hickenlooper).^[6][7]

He attended high school at St.

Louis University High, where he was part of a group of teenage filmmakers he informally called the "Splicers," whose members included James Gunn(Guardians of the Galaxy). After graduating from Yale University with a B.A.

in History and Film Studies in 1986, Hickenlooper interned for the producer Roger Corman, and launched his