Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder, June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, artist and journalist. He was known for directing movies such as Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Sunset Boulevard, Double Ideminty and The Seven Year Itch. He won two Golden Globe Awards and three Academy Awards. Wilder was born in Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (present-day Sucha Beskidzka, Poland). He was Jewish.[1] He married Judith Coppicus from 1936 to 1946. He married Audrey Young from 1949 to 2002. Wilder has two children. Wilder died of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, California.[2]
Billy Wilder Media
Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka
Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity
Curtis, Lemmon and Monroe in Some Like It Hot
Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment
Billy Wilder zu Besuch in der Galerie Poll am Lützowplatz, Berlin 1989
Wilder's grave in Westwood Village Memorial Park
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References
- ↑ "Time". Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2013-02-07.
- ↑ Clinton, Paul (2002-03-29). "Legendary director Billy Wilder dead at 95". CNN. http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/28/billy.wilder.obit/. Retrieved January 20, 2006.
Other websites
- Billy Wilder on IMDb
- Billy Wilder at the Internet Broadway Database
- Billy Wilder at the TCM Movie Database
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