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  1. Billy Wilder
    Austrian-born American film director and screenwriter

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  1. Mar 28, 2002 · He was 95. The director's health had been failing in recent months, producer George Schlatter, a longtime friend, told The Associated Press. Wilder died peacefully in his sleep about 11 p.m. PST,...

  2. Apr 19, 2022 · Billy Wilder in Paris, 1962. (Jean-Regis Rouston / Roger-Viollet / Getty Images) Among the many stories that Billy Wilder liked to tell late in his life was the one he recounted with great gusto ...

  3. Billy Wilder, the caustic writer and director who won six Academy Awards and international acclaim as one of the world's great filmmakers and then spent the last 21 years of his vivid life...

  4. May 19, 2022 · The journalist recorded the anecdotes and people around him: he interviewed a witch, the world-famous clown Grock, the oldest Berliner alive and a poker player. Billy Wilder, in a still...

  5. He retired in 1981. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>. Billy Wilder is an Austrian-born American film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.

    • June 22, 1906
    • March 27, 2002
  6. May 5, 2024 · Billy Wilder's dark comedy/noir was one of the first to take a bold, ... You want to see if I'm still alive, do you? Or do you doubt that I can act?" Ultimately, Swanson agreed to do the test, and ...

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  8. Apr 5, 2021 · Wilder’s acclaimed work in Hollywood, as a screenwriter and director, is in many ways an outgrowth of his stint as a reporter in interwar Vienna and Weimar Berlin. His is a raconteur’s cinema, long on smart, snappy dialogue, short on visual acrobatics. “For Wilder the former journalist, words have a special, almost material quality ...

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