Stephen Clancy Hill

Stephen Clancy Hill (May 8, 1976 – June 5, 2010) was an American pornographic actor who performed under the screen name Steve Driver. On June 1, 2010, Hill attacked several coworkers with a sword, wounding two and killing fellow actor Herbert Hin Wong (A.K.A. Tom Dong). Four days later, Hill died while being apprehended by police.

1998 charges In 1998, Hill was arrested and charged with assault with a handgun while a student at the University of Maryland. The victim in that incident was a teaching assistant who refused to give him an A on a test he had not taken. He was convicted of two lesser charges and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with all but two suspended, and five years' probation. This was subsequently amended to 18 months' house arrest. While on house arrest Hill began watching pornography in great quantities, buying many D.V.D.s on the internet. During the 18 months he became more of a recluse, applied for and received numerous credit cards, and kept purchasing large amounts of online pornography, with no intention of ever paying the creditor's bills. When his sentence was over, he worked for some time in the mortgage-title industry, but police record and bad credit caused him to lose jobs (information accredited directly from Hill's father during Investigation Discovery interview. ). Eventually, he moved to the Los Angeles area. In December 2006, his parents set him up in an apartment in the San Fernando Valley. After losing another job, he told his father that he wanted to become an actor. He actually intended to become a porn star. Actress Alana Evans later said that Hill "struggled in his scenes" and showed little promise as a porn actor. He had a featured role as Barack Obama in the pornographic spoof Palin: Erection 2008. In an unsuccessful effort to establish a signature and stand out from other "mopes", Hill began wearing "monster hands" prop gloves during his porn scenes. Wong had befriended Hill as the latter was starting his career in pornography. The two had met during the shooting of a gangbang scene where they were employed as mopes. Both men appeared together in several films and had been nicknamed by co-workers the "Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker of porn". It was Wong who had recommended Hill to Ultima DVD. Video recording shows that Hill was first shot near the right shoulder by a policeman, most likely with a non-lethal gun. Hill, cornered, went closer to the edge of the cliff. A second shot was fired by another policeman. Then Hill got even closer to the edge, and only then attempted a jump that eventually killed him. The police described the action as a "less than lethal munition".

Film Hill's story was made into the film Mope, directed by Lucas Heyne and starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Hill and Kelly Sry as Wong. The film premiered in January 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival.