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Billy Wilder ( / ˈwaɪldər /; German: [ˈvɪldɐ]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter. His career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Classic Hollywood cinema.
Billy Wilder. Writer: The Apartment. Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid.
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was an Austrian filmmaker. Wilder initially pursued a career in journalism after being inspired by an American newsreel. [1]
Jun 18, 2024 · Billy Wilder (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria [now in Poland]—died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American motion-picture scenarist, director, and producer known for films that humorously treat subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of hypocrisy in American life.
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.
Jun 17, 2024 · Tour our photo gallery of Wilder’s 25 greatest films, including many of the titles listed above, as well as “The Seven Year Itch” (1955), “One, Two, Three” (1961), “Irma la Douce ...
Oct 8, 2006 · October 8, 2006. From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Billy Wilder dominated Hollywood’s Golden Age. With over fifty films and six Academy Awards to his credit, he is one of...
Apr 5, 2021 · Read Billy Wilder’s Art of Screenwriting interview. Before he became the legendary director and screenwriter Billy Wilder, Billie Wilder was a scrappy and widely published journalist in Berlin and Vienna.
Mar 29, 2002 · 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...
Billy Wilder, the master of the American comedy who wrote and directed the grand melodramas of SUNSET BOULEVARD and DOUBLE INDEMNITY. The hard-hitting dramatist who created the funniest movie ever made, SOME LIKE IT HOT.
