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      Billy Wilder

      Billy Wilder

      Highest Rated: 100% The Major and the Minor (1942)

      Lowest Rated: 45% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)

      Birthday: Jun 22, 1906

      Birthplace: Sucha, Galicia, Austria

      First and foremost a writer, Billy Wilder became, by his own admission, a director in an effort to protect his scripts from directors who he felt misinterpreted his work.Wilder operated with assurance across all genres, compiling an impressive body of work featuring dialogue over character - its wit and astringent bite setting his oeuvre refreshingly apart from mainstream Hollywood fare. With the help of co-writer Raymond Chandler, he directed a masterpiece of film noir, "Double Indemnity" (1944), which he followed with "The Lost Weekend" (1945), a social drama that delivered an uncompromising look at alcoholism. After the great war drama "Stalag 17" (1953), Wilder created a variation on the comedy of manners and seduction in films such as "Sabrina" (1954) and "Love in the Afternoon" (1957), mixed black comedy and farce for "Some Like It Hot" (1959) - his most entertaining movie - and alienated Hollywood with the cruel and haunting "Sunset Boulevard" (1950). Wilder had long collaborations with writers Charles Brackett and I.A.L. Diamond, and directed his greatest achievement, "The Apartment" (1960), in partnership with the latter. Wilder lived on as one of classic Hollywood's most accomplished directors.

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      FOREIGN AFFAIR, A, Director Billy Wilder, John Lund, Marlene Dietrich, 1948 SUNSET BOULEVARD, Director Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, 1950 FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, director Billy Wilder, Erich von Stroheim on set, 1943 FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, director Billy Wilder, Erich von Stroheim on set, 1943 THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, director Billy Wilder, on-set, 1957 SOME LIKE IT HOT, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe, Billy Wilder (w/ film crew), 1959 SUNSET BOULEVARD, from left: Gloria Swanson, director Billy Wilder, on set, 1950 sunsetblvd1950-fsct24(sunsetblvd1950-fsct24) SOME LIKE IT HOT, Joe E. Brown, Jack Lemmon, Billy Wilder (back right), 1959, rehearsing THE FRONT PAGE, Carol Burnett, director Billy Wilder, Jon Korkes, on-set, 1974 THE APARTMENT, director Billy Wilder, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Lemmon on set, 1960 SOME LIKE IT HOT, Tony Curtis, Billy Wilder, 1959 THE FRONT PAGE, Jack Lemmon, Director Billy Wilder on set, 1974 THE APARTMENT, Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon, 1960, tray SUNSET BOULEVARD, director Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Cecil B. DeMille on set, 1950 FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, Fred Nurney, Erich von Stroheim, Konstantin Shayne, director Billy Wilder, Peter Van Eyck on set, 1943 FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO, Fortunio Bonanova, Anne Baxter, director Billy Wilder on set, 1943 IRMA LA DOUCE, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Director Billy Wilder, 1963 WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, from left, Charles Laughton Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, director and writer Billy Wilder, during rehearsal, 1957
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      Filmography

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      Credit
      60% 64% Sabrina Writer $51.6M 1995
      65% 43% Buddy Buddy Director - 1981
      71% 62% Fedora Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer       		- 1978
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Jack Lemmon - A Twist of Lemmon Self - 1976
      58% 74% The Front Page Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1974
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Double Indemnity Screenwriter - 1973
      79% 76% Avanti! Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer       		- 1972
      89% 73% The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1970
      96% 79% The Fortune Cookie Director,
      Producer       		- 1966
      71% 67% Kiss Me, Stupid Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1964
      76% 78% Irma La Douce Director - 1963
      88% 88% One, Two, Three Director,
      Producer       		- 1961
      94% 94% The Apartment Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Producer       		- 1960
      95% 94% Some Like It Hot Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1959
      100% 95% Witness for the Prosecution Director,
      Writer       		- 1957
      82% 78% Love in the Afternoon Director,
      Producer       		- 1957
      83% 75% The Spirit of St. Louis Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1957
      84% 76% The Seven Year Itch Director,
      Producer,
      Screenwriter       		- 1955
      89% 89% Sabrina Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1954
      91% 93% Stalag 17 Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1953
      90% 92% Ace in the Hole Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		- 1951
      98% 94% Sunset Boulevard Director,
      Writer       		- 1950
      100% 77% A Foreign Affair Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1948
      73% 41% The Emperor Waltz Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1948
      97% 90% The Lost Weekend Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1945
      97% 95% Double Indemnity Director,
      Writer       		- 1944
      100% 79% Five Graves to Cairo Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1943
      100% 83% The Major and the Minor Director - 1942
      100% 89% Ball of Fire Screenwriter,
      Writer       		- 1941
      No Score Yet No Score Yet What a Life Screenwriter - 1939
      45% 63% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Writer - 1938
      No Score Yet 45% Bad Seed Director,
      Screenwriter       		- 1934
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Blue From the Sky Screenwriter - 1932
      No Score Yet 83% Emil and the Detectives Screenwriter - 1931
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Looking for His Murderer Screenwriter - 1931
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Her Grace Commands Screenwriter - 1931
      100% 78% People on Sunday Writer - 1930