- Billy Wilder was an Austrian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist and journalist, whose career spanned more than fifty years and sixty films
| Born: | 22 June 1906 Comment | | When did Billy Wilder die? / Died | 27 March 2002 | | How many years did Billy Wilder live? / Lived | 95 years | | Zodiac sign: | Cancer |
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Billy Wilder facts
- He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age
- With The Apartment, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director and screenwriter for the same film
- Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin
- After the rise of the Nazi Party, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut
- He moved to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit when he co-wrote the screenplay for the screwball comedy Ninotchka
- Wilder established his directorial reputation with Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with crime 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 (1945), about alcoholism
- In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard
- From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies
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