William Friedkin
Biography
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
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Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
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The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
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Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
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Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Self - Director
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
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A Little Solitaire
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Miller's Tale
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Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
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Anatomy of a Chase
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Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Self
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
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The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
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Conversation with Fritz Lang
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The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Filming “The Hunted”
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Pursuing “The Hunted”
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The Cutting Edge
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Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Self (archive footage)
The Exorcist Untold
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Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
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Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
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View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
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The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Self (archive footage)
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Self
Fear in the Dark
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The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
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North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Self - Reader (segment "My Ballsy Yarns")
A Fuller Life
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A Decade Under the Influence
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The History of 'Cruising'
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Exorcising 'Cruising'
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In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
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Making the Boys
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Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
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The Devil and Father Amorth
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Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
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Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
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Friedkin Uncut
Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
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Algren
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Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
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Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
SORCERERS: Une conversation entre William Friedkin et Nicolas Winding Refn
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Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
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Henri Langlois vu par...
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Godard Made in USA
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Fellini degli spiriti
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Howard Hawks: American Artist
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Hollywood Halloween
Return to the Genre
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The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
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I Am Alfred Hitchcock
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The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
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Shadows of Suspense
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The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
TV Director
Without Limits
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Narc: Shooting Up
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Narc: The Friedkin Connection
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
63
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-08-29
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
윌리엄 프리드킨