William Friedkin

William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Friedkin's other films in the 1970s and 1980s include the drama The Boys in the Band (1970), considered a milestone of queer cinema; the originally deprecated, now lauded thriller Sorcerer (1977); the crime comedy drama The Brink's Job (1978); the controversial thriller Cruising (1980); and the neo-noir thriller To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Although Friedkin's works suffered an overall commercial and critical decline in the late 1980s, his last three feature films, all based on plays, were positively received by critics: the psychological horror film Bug (2006), the crime film Killer Joe (2011), and the legal drama film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023), released two months after his death. He also worked extensively as an opera director from 1998 until his death, and directed various television films and series episodes for television. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Friedkin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For	Directing
Most Rating	3.829
Birthday	1935-08-29
Place of Birth	Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As	윌리엄 프리드킨, 윌리암 프리드킨,

Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist

The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't

Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy

Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock

Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist

A Little Solitaire

Miller's Tale

Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist

Anatomy of a Chase

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot

The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now

Conversation with Fritz Lang

The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Filming “The Hunted”

Pursuing “The Hunted”

The Cutting Edge

Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock

The Exorcist Untold

Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic

Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Stanley Kubrick in Focus

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

Fear in the Dark

The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style

North by Northwest: One for the Ages

A Fuller Life

A Decade Under the Influence

The History of 'Cruising'

Exorcising 'Cruising'

In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy

Making the Boys

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

The Devil and Father Amorth

Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of

Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'

Friedkin Uncut

Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

Algren

Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman

Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn

Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist

Henri Langlois vu par...

Godard Made in USA

Fellini of the Spirits

Howard Hawks: American Artist

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Return to the Genre

The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo

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