Arthur Hiller, ‘Love Story’ Director and Box-Office Magnet, Dies at 92

Arthur Hiller, an Academy Award-nominated director whose long career began in live television and flourished in the movies in the 1970s with crowd-pleasers like the phenomenally successful “Love Story,” died on Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 92.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced his death.

Mr. Hiller, who for a time was one of Hollywood’s most commercially potent directors, piloted nearly 70 feature films, television movies and series episodes in a wide range of genres, from the Holocaust drama “The Man in the Glass Booth” (1975) to the screwball comedy “The In-Laws” (1979).