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Billy Wilder

American director and producer
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Also known as: Samuel Wilder
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Original name:
Samuel Wilder
Born:
June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria [now in Poland]
Died:
March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, U.S. (aged 95)

Billy Wilder (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria [now in Poland]—died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American motion-picture scenarist, director, and producer known for films that humorously treat subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of hypocrisy in American life. His work often focused on subjects that had previously been considered unacceptable screen material, including alcoholism (The Lost Weekend, 1945), prisoner-of-war camps (Stalag 17, 1953), and prostitution (Irma La Douce, 1963). A number of his films, such as Sunset Boulevard (1950) and The Apartment (1960), weighed the emptiness of modern life. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica ...(100 of 2561 words)

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