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    Austrian-born American film director and screenwriter

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  1. Apr 16, 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Feb 10, 2024 · Billy Wilder was one of the Golden Age of Hollywood's greatest and most revered filmmakers, though he himself was born in Austria in 1906. After a single film he co-directed in the 1930s, he...

  4. 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 Hollywood’s...

  5. Apr 19, 2021 · Billy Wilder: from poor Austrian journalist to Hollywood superstar. The director’s newly translated writings reveal how his life as a penniless reporter shaped his hit movies. Donna Ferguson....

  6. 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 his vivid life...

  7. 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. The “great cynic” who steeped us in the lyric romanticism of LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON and AVANTI!

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