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Billy Wilder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austria/Hungarian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment). Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of Adolf Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He relocated to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit as a co-writer of the screenplay to the screwball comedy Ninotchka. Wilder established his directorial reputation after helming Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with mystery novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend, about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard. From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies. Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959), satires such as The Apartment (1960), and the romantic comedy Sabrina (1954). He directed fourteen different actors in Oscar-nominated performances. Wilder was recognized with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1986. In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. In 1993, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Wilder holds a significant place in the history of Hollywood censorship for expanding the range of acceptable subject matter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Wilder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Jun 22, 1906 In Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Movie/TV Credits:
14
First Appeared:
In the movie The Hollywood Greats: Charles Laughton 1978-08-31
Latest Project:
Movie Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder 2017-10-28
Known For
Poster of Helmut by June
Poster of The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
Poster of The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
Filmography
Movie Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder Self (archive footage) 2017-10-28
Movie And the Oscar Goes To... Self (archive footage) 2014-02-01
Movie Night Will Fall Self (archive footage) 2014-06-07
Movie Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood Self (archive footage) 2009-01-01
Movie Helmut by June Self (archive footage) 2007-04-30
Movie The Making of 'Some Like It Hot' Self (archive footage) 2006-06-25
Movie Billy Wilder Speaks Self - Filmmaker 2006-06-22
Movie The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot' Self (archive footage) 2006-06-25
Movie Shadows of Suspense Himself (archive footage) 2006-08-22
Movie Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy Self 1998-02-04
Movie Billy, How Did You Do It? Self 1992-01-25
Movie Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder Self 1982-05-21
Movie The Hollywood Greats: Charles Laughton Interviewee 1978-08-31
Series The Kennedy Center Honors Unknown 1978-12-28
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