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Billy Wilder
Directing

Billy Wilder
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1906-06-22,Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Gender
Male
Biography
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.

Filmography

Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect

7.5

Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect
2016-12-29

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

6.7

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982-05-21

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'

8.5

The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'

7

The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006-06-25

Hollywood's Second World War

8

Hollywood's Second World War
2019-09-03

Billy, How Did You Do It?

7

Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992-01-25

Night Will Fall

7.506

Night Will Fall
2014-06-07

7.2

Audrey
2020-11-30

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor

0

Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000-05-21

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered

7

Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993-08-11

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door

0

Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
1996-12-17

6.3

Helmut by June
2007-04-30

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

6

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998-02-04

Billy Wilder Speaks

7

Billy Wilder Speaks
2006-06-22

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood

6

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
2009-01-01

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

7.3

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017-10-28

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman

7.5

Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996-11-25

And the Oscar Goes To...

6.97

And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01

0

The Exiles
1989-09-24

Directed by William Wyler

0

Directed by William Wyler
1986-05-01

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

6.5

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
1997-01-01

Shadows of Suspense

0

Shadows of Suspense
2006-08-22

Un film et son époque

10

Un film et son époque
2003-05-17

7

The Oscars
1953-03-19

The Kennedy Center Honors

7.2

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978-12-28

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

4.5

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973-04-02

0

Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25

Deutscher Filmpreis

6

Deutscher Filmpreis
1951-01-01

Billy, How Did You Do It?

0

Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992-08-08

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

6

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975-01-12

8

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04