Anthony J. Hilder (November 30, 1934 - April 26, 2019) was an American author, film maker, talk show host, broadcaster, news correspondent and former actor.
His education was at prep school in Ojai, California, and later at University High in West Los Angeles.
[9][10] He supervised the recordings of the Revels,[11] a California group remembered for the instrumental hit "Church Key".
[17] He was also interviewed by the Idaho-based Times News that year and voiced his strong opposition to property taxes and the system of education in America.
[27] His films include Illuminazi 9-11 which featured Jordan Maxwell, Clayton Douglas and Ted Gunderson[28] who Hilder has been associated with.
[50] According to Who Put the Bomp magazine, Hilder was responsible for more local surf music being recorded and released than any other individual.
One day, the Revels were at a Chevrolet dealership in San Luis Obispo, playing for a March of Dimes benefit.
[68][51] Hilder helped with much of the writing and arrangement for the 1961 film, The Exiles,[74][75] a docu-drama about urban Indians from L.A. and with garage rock music provided by The Revels.
[76] In 1962, Hilder attended a practice session by Rendezvous Ballroom regulars, the Rhythm Rockers, and heard them doing their version of a song he held the rights to, "Church Key".
[81][82][83] In 1966, represented by attorney Al Schlesinger, Hilders company Anthony Music was involved in legal action with Del-Fi records, filing a $122,000 Superior Suit over breach of contract, fraud and money owned.
This included recordings by The Centurians, Dave Myers and the Surftones, the Sentinels and an LP Battle of the Surf Bands.
[98] It was announced in the May 8, 1961, issue of Billboard that Hilder had put Dean Zook in a position to head the label's Midwest Radio-TV promotion.
From his base in Denver, Zook's first efforts were concentrated on the promotion of the Revels' single which had been featured in the 1961 film, The Exiles.
It featured Lil Ray, The Original Surfaris, Dave Myers and the Surftones, the New Dimensions, Steve Korey and the Virtue Four.
[54] Both Hilder and Hafner had previous involvement with their roles in the film The Hideous Sun Demon which was released in the late 1950s.
[113][114] In 1974, Hilder was approached by Ray Badarat from the Charades who had come to Los Angeles in search of the group's old master tapes.
After catching up about old times, Hilder offered an opportunity for the group to do a musical score for a film, Black Lolita.
Just as John Hodge, the manager / producer for the Pyramids worked with Sundazed's Bob Irwin to get the product out, so did Hilder, Sam Eddy and Norman Knowles.
[117][118] Hilder's voice is featured on the track "Radio Free World" which was included on the various artists album Audium Capsule 1, released in 1996.
[119] His voice was sampled and appears on the track "A Sorrowful Empire" by the group Haunted By Rivers on their Drain the Sky album released in 2008.
[121] According to the "Orange County Home of Richard Nixon, Disneyland and rightists" article by Kay Bartlett in the March 16, 1974 issue of The Free Lance-Star, Hilder was a self-proclaimed new-rightist and his book War Lords of Washington argued that international bankers conspired to involve America in World War II.
[125] In June 1993, Hilder was kicked out of the studio at KLAV for his remarks about Janet Reno's alleged relationship to Cult Awareness Network (CAN) which had a role in the whistleblowing of the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.
[136][137] In 2011,[citation needed] Hilder appeared on the UK television show, On the Edge which was hosted by Theo Chalmers.
[139][140][141][142] Ufologist Norio Hayakawa who has in the past been associated with Hilder,[143][144] confirmed his death on his website with details of a memorial service to be held on May 10, 2019, from 2 p.m. at the Woodlawn Cemetery at the Sunburst Chapel in Santa Monica, California.
Featuring Ray Yungen, Terry L Cook and Jordan Maxwell, it was about the "One Party System", and looked at the supposed plan for World domination via the boardrooms of the Major Banking institutions.
[163] According to the 26 Jan 1995 issue of the Point Pleasant Register, a presentation of Millennium 2000 was being held at the Mason County Library on 26 January at 6:00 pm.
Released in 2001, and possibly the earliest of the 911 conspiracy type of films, the 86 minute documentary was asking who was really behind the attack on the World Trade Center.
[170][171] In addition to Hilder and Jordon Maxwell, Alex Jones and David Icke were also featured in The Illuminati which explored topics such as elections, the Bohemian Club, the Skull and Bones society and freemasonry.
[172] In the sequel The Illuminati II: The Antichrist Conspiracy, which also featured Jones, Maxwell and Icke, the film looked at the fixing of the 1992 presidential election, the Free Tibet campaign, Aleister Crowley & the Evil Eye and the Manhattan Project.
[172][173] Hilder appeared in the Andre Eggelletion documentary Thieves in the Temple, a film about the privately owned banks which was released in 2005.