Billy Wilder

Person · Open Library

Born

1906

Died

2002

Works

37

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Film & TV

Directing · Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary

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…

Known for

• Audrey — Self - Filmmaker (voice) (archive footage)2020
• Hollywood's Second World War — Self (archive footage)2019
• Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder — Self (archive footage)2017
• Billy Wilder: Nobody's Perfect — Self (archive footage)2016
• The Legacy of 'Some Like It Hot' — Self (archive footage)2006
• The Making of 'Some Like It Hot' — Self (archive footage)2006
• Billy Wilder Speaks — Self - Filmmaker2006
• Un film et son époque — Self (archive footage)2003
• Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot — Self (archive footage)2001
• Klaus Kinski: I'm not an actor — Self (archive footage)2000

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1906

Active to

2002

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

684

Total plays

2,117

Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment). Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. <a hre

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,955x

2. The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis

   · 1988 · cited 15,808x

3. NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease

   · 2018 · cited 9,622x

4. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

   · 2013 · cited 8,567x

5. Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 7,999x

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Quotes

• “An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.”
• “A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.”
• “Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.”
• “Die Österreicher haben das Kunststück fertiggebracht, aus Beethoven einen Österreicher und aus Hitler einen Deutschen zu machen.”
• “I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.”
• “I just made pictures I would've liked to see.”

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