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Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was an Austrian filmmaker. Wilder initially pursued a career in journalism after being inspired by an American newsreel. [1] He worked for the Austrian magazine Die Bühne and the newspaper Die Stunde in Vienna, and later for the German newspapers Berliner Nachtausgabe, and Berliner Börsen-Courier in Berlin. [2]
Oct 8, 2006 · Billy Wilder has had a powerful creative influence on both the experimental and traditional film industries in America. He was born Samuel Wilder on June 22, 1906 in Sucha, then part of the Austro ...
Apr 19, 2022 · Billy Wilder in Paris, 1962. (Jean-Regis Rouston / Roger-Viollet / Getty Images) Among the many stories that Billy Wilder liked to tell late in his life was the one he recounted with great gusto ...
Mar 27, 2002 · Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer 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’s best known films include Double Indemnity (1944), The Lost Weekend (1945), Sunset Boulevard (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Witness for the Prosecution (1957). He won twice for The Lost Weekend and for Sunset Boulevard, both adapted from novels by Billy Wilder’s brother Raymond, who died before he could see his brother’s ...
Born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria (now part of Poland) in 1906, Billy Wilder spent his early professional life as a reporter in Vienna. In 1926 he relocated to Berlin, where his reputation as a journalist grew. But by then a different dream had taken hold — the movies. Selling his first script to an extremely grateful and quite naked ...
Birthday: Jun 22, 1906. Birthplace: Sucha, Galicia, Austria. First and foremost a writer, Billy Wilder became, by his own admission, a director in an effort to protect his scripts from directors ...
