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Billy Wilder, orig. Samuel Wilder, (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria—died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, Calif., U.S.), Austrian-born U.S. film director and screenwriter. Working as a reporter in Vienna and Berlin, he wrote screenplays for German films. He fled Germany in 1933 and arrived in Hollywood a year later.
May 22, 2023 · Billy Wilder is a giant in the landscape of American cinema, with these 10 movies being acclaimed on IMDb. Collider. Menu. Close. Movies Submenu. Movie News; Movie Features; TV Submenu.
Apr 5, 2021 · Long before the award-winning Hollywood screenwriter and director Billy Wilder spelled his first name with a y, in faithful adherence to the ways of his adopted homeland, he was known—and widely published, in Berlin and Vienna—as Billie Wilder. At birth, on June 22, 1906, in a small Galician town called Sucha, less than twenty miles ...
Mar 30, 2002 · Billy Wilder, who has died aged 95, could seem like history itself. He had helped write the scene where Garbo laughed in Ninotchka (1939) - he also wanted her to say "bottom", but the star thought ...
7.1 (8.6K) Rate. Charles 'Slim' Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his New York to Paris flight the first solo transatlantic crossing. Director Billy Wilder Stars James Stewart Murray Hamilton Patricia Smith. 14. Love in the Afternoon. 1957 2h 10m Approved. 7.1 (17K)
Jun 5, 2022 · ‘Wilder’s films are a unique combination of mitteleuropean and American sensibilities’: (from left) Billy Wilder on the set of his 1978 film Fedora with Michael York and Marthe Keller.
Billy Wilder. The director and cowriter of some of the world's most iconic films—including Double Indemnity, Sunset Blvd., Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment —Billy Wilder earned acclaim as American cinema's greatest social satirist. Though an influential fixture in Hollywood, Wilder always saw himself as an outsider.
