Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder, born Samuel Wilder; (22 June 1906 - 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-born director, screenwriter and producer who is regarded as one of the most successful 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.
Fotos
Películas (93)
Audrey
2020 · Self - Filmmaker (voice) (archive footage)
Hollywood's Second World War
2019 · Self (archive footage)
La Garçonnière
2018 · Original Story
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect
2016 · Self (archive footage)
The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006 · Self (archive footage), Thanks
The Making of 'Some Like It Hot'
2006 · Self (archive footage), Thanks
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006 · Self - Filmmaker
Heart of the Festival
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998 · Self
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
1997 · Self
Fred MacMurray: The Guy Next Door
1996 · Self
Jack Lemmon: America's Everyman
1996 · Self
Sabrina
1995 · Original Film Writer
Audrey Hepburn: Remembered
1993 · Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992 · Self
The Exiles
1989 · Self
Directed by William Wyler
1986 · Self
Witness for the Prosecution
1982 · Screenplay
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982 · Self
Sugar
1982 · Original Film Writer
Buddy Buddy
1981 · Director, Writer
Fedora
1978 · Director, Writer, Producer
Regie: Billy Wilder
1978 · Self
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976 · Thanks
The Front Page
1974 · Director, Screenplay
Double Indemnity
1973 · Original Film Writer
Avanti!
1972 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1970 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
1966
The Fortune Cookie
1966 · Director, Producer, Writer
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Irma la Douce
1963 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
One, Two, Three
1961 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Apartment
1960 · Producer, Director, Writer
Some Like It Hot
1959 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Director, Screenplay
Love in the Afternoon
1957 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Spirit of St. Louis
1957 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Seven Year Itch
1955 · Director, Producer, Screenplay
Emil and the Detectives
1954 · Screenplay
Sabrina
1954 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Stalag 17
1953 · Producer, Writer, Director
Ace in the Hole
1951 · Director, Writer, Producer
Sunset Boulevard
1950 · Director, Screenplay
A Song Is Born
1948 · Story, Original Film Writer
A Foreign Affair
1948 · Director, Screenplay
The Emperor Waltz
1948 · Director, Writer
The Bishop's Wife
1947 · Additional Writing
Masquerade in Mexico
1945 · Original Film Writer
The Lost Weekend
1945 · Screenplay, Director
Death Mills
1945 · Editor, Director
Double Indemnity
1944 · Director, Screenplay
Five Graves to Cairo
1943 · Director, Screenplay
The Major and the Minor
1942 · Director, Writer
Ball of Fire
1941 · Screenplay, Original Story
Hold Back the Dawn
1941 · Writer
Arise, My Love
1940 · Screenplay
Rhythm on the River
1940 · Story
Ninotchka
1939 · Screenplay
What a Life
1939 · Screenplay
Midnight
1939 · Screenplay
That Certain Age
1938 · Writer
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
1938 · Screenplay
Champagne Waltz
1937 · Story
First Offence
1936 · Original Story
Emil and the Detectives
1935 · Screenplay
The Lottery Lover
1935 · Screenplay
Music in the Air
1934 · Screenplay
One Exciting Adventure
1934 · Story
Bad Seed
1934 · Director, Writer
Adorable
1933 · Writer
What Women Dream
1933 · Screenplay
Madame Wants No Children
1933 · Screenplay
The Blue from the Sky
1932 · Screenplay
Where Is This Lady?
1932 · Story
Scampolo, ein Kind der Straße
1932 · Writer
A Blonde Dream
1932 · Writer
Happy Ever After
1932 · Writer
Once There Was a Waltz
1932 · Writer
The Winner
1932 · Writer
Emil and the Detectives
1931 · Screenplay
Princess, At Your Orders!
1931 · Writer
The Wrong Husband
1931 · Writer
Infidelities
1931 · Story
Her Grace Commands
1931 · Writer
The Man in Search of His Murderer
1931 · Screenplay
The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger
1930 · Writer
People on Sunday
1930 · Screenplay
Der Teufelsreporter
1929 · Writer
Sunset Boulevard
· Original Film Writer
Series (12)
Un film et son époque
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Sternstunde Kunst
1998 · Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992 · Self
Film Lesson
1991 · Self
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
Spécial cinéma
1974 · Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Self
Film '72
1971 · Self
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self
The Oscars
1953 · Self
German Film Award
1951 · Self