Billy Wilder (/ˈwaɪldər/; German: [ˈvɪldɐ]; born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an American filmmaker and screenwriter. He was born...
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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. He worked...
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the brother of the film director Billy Wilder and father of television comedy writer and producer Myles Wilder. Wilder originally was a NY-based maker...
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singer who was most active in the 1940s. She was the wife of director Billy Wilder. Young was born in Los Angeles, California, Her father, Stratton Young...
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a list of awards and nominations received by American filmmaker Billy Wilder. Wilder was an American film writer, director, producer, with a Hollywood...
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Some Like It Hot (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft...
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Sunset Boulevard (film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder and Charles Brackett. It is named after a major street that...
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Jack Lemmon was an American actor. He collaborated with Billy Wilder and Walter Matthau on many films. A Twist of Lemmon (Eic, 1958) Some Like It Hot (1959)...
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A list of books and essays about Billy Wilder: Armstrong, Richard (1 January 2004). Billy Wilder, American Film Realist. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-2119-0...
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The Apartment (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
Apartment is a 1960 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond. It stars Jack Lemmon...
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Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder, p. 589 Wolf, Matt. "'Sunset Boulevard' Has Mixed Reviews, But Billy Wilder's Impressed", Associated Press,...
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media. The Billy Wilder Theater is on the courtyard level of the Hammer Museum. Made possible by a $5 million gift from Audrey L. Wilder and designed...
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Love in the Afternoon (1957 film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based...
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event, he served film director and screenwriter Billy Wilder. He struck up a conversation with Wilder, who advised Thornton to consider a career as a...
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Fedora (1978 film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
German-French drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Marthe Keller. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on Tom...
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and teacher known for his portrait paintings, including Gore Vidal and Billy Wilder. Newley's father was actor and songwriter Anthony Newley, and his mother...
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Buddy Buddy (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
Molinaro's film L'emmerdeur. It was the final film directed and written by Billy Wilder. To earn his long-awaited retirement, hitman Trabucco eliminates several...
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was an American screenwriter and film producer. He collaborated with Billy Wilder on sixteen films. Brackett was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, the...
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Hollywood director Billy Wilder. She invites Calista to join her, but disappears halfway through the meal, leaving Calista in the company of Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond...
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Double Indemnity (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay...
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Beau Wilkes in Gone with the Wind in 1939. His uncle was film director Billy Wilder. Curtis died on November 24, 2022, at the age of 83. His Gone with the...
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It Hot is a 1959 comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe and directed by Billy Wilder. Some Like It Hot may also refer to: Some Like It Hot (1939 film), a...
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by a $5 million gift from Audrey L. Wilder and designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture, the 295-seat Billy Wilder Theater is situated on the Courtyard...
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Awards received by two different films altogether. David O. Russell, Billy Wilder, Elia Kazan, and Mike Nichols are the only directors with two movies...
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The Major and the Minor (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
Milland. It was the first American film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay credited to Wilder and Charles Brackett is "suggested by" the 1923 play...
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Stalag 17 (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World...
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William Holden (section The Wild Bunch)
Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). Holden's career took off again in 1950 when Billy Wilder tapped him to play a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent...
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The Front Page (1974 film) (category Films directed by Billy Wilder)
black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on...
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age 13, he would take Wilder on as a student. The day after Wilder turned 13, he called the teacher, who accepted him; Wilder studied with him for two...
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Myles Wilder (January 28, 1933 – April 20, 2010) was a television comedy writer and producer. Wilder attended and graduated from UCLA's Theater Arts Department...
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