Billy Wilder
Director
Birthday: (95) 1906-06-22 - Deathday: 2002-03-27
Birthplace: Sucha, Galicia, Austria-HungaryAlso known as: Samuel Wilder, 빌리 와일더,
Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born director, screenwriter and producer who is regarded as one of the most excellent filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Today he is best known for his comedies, although he also directed dramas and film noirs. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment). Wilder's career began in Germany, where he worked as a writer for comedy films from 1930. After the Nazis seized power in 1933, he emigrated to the United States, where he continued to write screenplays, including Ernst Lubitsch's Ninotchka (1939) and Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire (1941). From the early 1940s, Wilder was allowed to film his own screenplays and thus made a name for himself as a director. Initially, his greatest successes included predominantly dramatic film noirs such as Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951). It was only then that he increasingly turned to comedy, including Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954) and The Seven Year Itch (1955), although he made a small detour to courtroom drama with Witness for the Prosecution (1957). With Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) he made his most famous and probably most successful comedy films, the latter even receiving five Oscars. In One, Two, Three (1961), Wilder dealt with the conditions of the time in his former adopted country, Germany, and made the successful romantic comedy Irma la Douce (1963). In the two decades that followed, Wilder made seven more films, which were less well received by critics and audiences, although the German-French drama Fedora (1978) is viewed somewhat more favorably today by predominantly pretentious film experts. Some time later, Wilder was under discussion as director for Schindler's List, which he had wanted as the end of his long career, but ultimately had to turn it down due to his advanced age.
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What Women Dre...
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Sunset Bouleva...
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Sunset Bouleva...
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Witness for th...
8.215
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Witness for th...
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The Apartment
8.202
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The Apartment
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The Apartment
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Double Indemni...
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Double Indemni...
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Some Like It H...
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Some Like It H...
8.097
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Some Like It H...
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Ace in the Hole
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Ace in the Hole
7.862
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Ace in the Hole
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Stalag 17
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Stalag 17
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Stalag 17
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The Lost Weeke...
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The Lost Weeke...
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Emil and the D...
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Ninotchka
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Sabrina
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Sabrina
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Sabrina
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One, Two, Three
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One, Two, Three
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One, Two, Three
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Irma la Douce
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Irma la Douce
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Irma la Douce
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Midnight
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Ball of Fire
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Ball of Fire
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The Front Page
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The Front Page
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People on Sund...
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The Fortune Co...
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The Fortune Co...
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A Foreign Affa...
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A Foreign Affa...
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The Seven Year...
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The Seven Year...
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The Seven Year...
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Kiss Me, Stupid
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Kiss Me, Stupid
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Kiss Me, Stupid
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Five Graves to...
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Five Graves to...
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The Major and ...
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Love in the Af...
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Love in the Af...
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Love in the Af...
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Avanti!
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Avanti!
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Avanti!
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Emil and the D...
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The Private Li...
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The Private Li...
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The Private Li...
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Fedora
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Fedora
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Fedora
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The Spirit of ...
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The Spirit of ...
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The Spirit of ...
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Hold Back the ...
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The Man in Sea...
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A Song Is Born
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Death Mills
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Death Mills
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Witness for th...
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Buddy Buddy
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Buddy Buddy
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Sabrina
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The Emperor Wa...
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The Emperor Wa...
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Bad Seed
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Bad Seed
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A Blonde Dream
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La Garçonnière
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Emil and the D...
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That Certain A...
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Adorable
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