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May 7, 2024 · William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 7, 2023, Los Angeles, California) was an American film director who was best known for The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973).
Aug 7, 2023 · William Friedkin, a master of suspense and leading figure of the 1970s New Hollywood movement who was known for directing films such as “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” has died.
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William Friedkin. Director: To Live and Die in L.A.. Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with Orson Welles after seeing Citizen Kane (1941 ...
Aug 7, 2023 · Friedkin gave us a number of classics in the early 1970s, but his queasy and diabolically inspired masterpiece was surely The Exorcist from 1973, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his original ...
Aug 8, 2023 · FILE - Director William Friedkin poses for portraits after interviews for his film “Killer Joe” in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” died Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, in Los Angeles, his wife, producer and former studio head Sherry Lansing told The Hollywood Reporter.
Aug 7, 2023 · William Friedkin, the film director behind “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” has died. He was synonymous with the New Hollywood era of the late 1960s and ’70s, when young ...
Aug 7, 2023 · William Friedkin, "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist" director, dies at age 87 00:25. William Friedkin, the director who won an Oscar for "The French Connection" and shocked audiences with ...
