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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1906-06-22
- event Death Date 2002-03-27
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 10.1
- info Birth Place Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Billy Wilder
7.5
Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect
2016-12-29
8
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995-05-21
6.7
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982-05-21
8.5
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
7
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
8
Hollywood's Second World War
2019-09-03
7
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992-01-25
7.6
Night Will Fall
2014-06-07
7.2
Audrey
2020-11-30
0
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000-05-21
7
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993-08-11
0
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
1996-12-17
6.3
Helmut by June
2007-04-30
6
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998-02-04
7
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006-06-22
6
Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2009-01-01
7.4
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017-10-28
7.5
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996-11-25
7
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
0
The Exiles
1989-09-24
0
Directed by William Wyler
1986-05-01
6.5
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
1997-01-01
0
Shadows of Suspense
2006-08-22
10
Un film et son époque
2003-05-17
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
7.2
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978-12-28
4.5
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973-04-02
0
Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25
6
Deutscher Filmpreis
1951-01-01
0
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992-08-08
6
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12
8
Cinépanorama
1956-02-04
movie_edit Directing
8
Some Like It Hot
1959-03-19
8
Some Like It Hot
1959-03-19
8
The Apartment
1960-06-21
8
The Apartment
1960-06-21
8
People on Sunday
1930-02-04
8
One, Two, Three
1961-12-15
8
Double Indemnity
1944-07-06
8
One, Two, Three
1961-12-15
8
The Front Page
1974-11-01
8
Double Indemnity
1944-07-06
8
The Front Page
1974-11-01
8
One, Two, Three
1961-12-15
8
Sunset Boulevard
1950-08-10
8
Sunset Boulevard
1950-08-10
8
Stalag 17
1953-05-29
8
Ninotchka
1939-11-23
8
The Fortune Cookie
1966-10-19
8
The Fortune Cookie
1966-10-19
8
The Fortune Cookie
1966-10-19
8
Irma la Douce
1963-06-05
8
Irma la Douce
1963-06-05
8
Irma la Douce
1963-06-05
8
Emil and the Detectives
1931-12-02
8
Emil and the Detectives
1935-02-05
8
Emil and the Detectives
1954-10-14
8
The Seven Year Itch
1955-06-03
8
The Seven Year Itch
1955-06-03
8
The Seven Year Itch
1955-06-03
8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970-10-29
8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970-10-29
8
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970-10-29
8
Witness for the Prosecution
1982-12-04
8
Sabrina
1954-09-10
8
Sabrina
1954-09-10
8
Sabrina
1954-09-10
8
What Women Dream
1933-04-19
8
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938-03-25
8
Midnight
1939-03-24
8
Ace in the Hole
1951-06-29
8
Ace in the Hole
1951-06-29
8
Ace in the Hole
1951-06-29
8
Avanti!
1972-12-17
8
Avanti!
1972-12-17
8
Avanti!
1972-12-17
8
The Lost Weekend
1945-11-29
8
Buddy Buddy
1981-04-02
8
Ball of Fire
1941-12-02
8
Ball of Fire
1941-12-02
8
Witness for the Prosecution
1957-12-17
8
Witness for the Prosecution
1957-12-17
8
Five Graves to Cairo
1943-05-26
8
Five Graves to Cairo
1943-05-26
8
The Emperor Waltz
1948-07-02
8
A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
8
A Foreign Affair
1948-08-20
8
The Major and the Minor
1942-09-16
8
The Major and the Minor
1942-09-16
8
Love in the Afternoon
1957-05-29
8
Love in the Afternoon
1957-05-29
8
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
8
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
8
Bad Seed
1934-07-05
8
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964-12-22
8
Hold Back the Dawn
1941-09-26
8
Fedora
1978-06-29
8
Fedora
1978-06-29
8
Fedora
1978-06-29
8
The Apartment
1960-06-21
8
Double Indemnity
1973-10-13
8
Rhythm on the River
1940-08-28
8
The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931-02-04
8
That Certain Age
1938-10-06
8
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
8
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25
8
A Blonde Dream
1932-09-23
8
Arise, My Love
1940-11-08
8
The Emperor Waltz
1948-07-02
8
Buddy Buddy
1981-04-02
8
Adorable
1933-05-18
8
One Exciting Adventure
1934-09-01
8
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964-12-22
8
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964-12-22
8
Stalag 17
1953-05-29
8
Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
1932-10-25
8
Stalag 17
1953-05-29
8
The Lost Weekend
1945-11-29
8
Some Like It Hot
1959-03-19
8
What a Life
1939-10-05
8
Champagne Waltz
1937-02-05
8
The Blue from the Sky
1932-12-20
8
The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger
1930-08-13
8
The Lottery Lover
1935-02-05
8
Princess, At Your Orders!
1931-04-02
8
Sabrina
1995-12-15
8
Her Grace Commands
1931-03-03
8
Sunset Boulevard
8
Where Is This Lady?
1932-11-17
8
The Bishop's Wife
1947-12-25
8
Melodrama
1927-03-10
8
Once There Was a Waltz
1932-04-14
8
Bad Seed
1934-07-05
8
First Offence
1936-02-21
8
Music in the Air
1934-12-13
8
A Song Is Born
1948-10-19
8
Infidelities
1931-03-19
8
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957-04-01
8
Der Teufelsreporter
1929-07-19
8
The Wrong Husband
1931-03-27
8
Love in the Afternoon
1957-05-29
8
Madame Wants No Children
1933-01-06
8
The Winner
1932-03-21
8
Death Mills
1945-07-10
8
Death Mills
1945-07-10
8
Happy Ever After
1932-09-23
8
La Garçonnière
2018-05-28