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William Friedkin
Born · August 29, 1935
Died · August 7, 2023 (87 years old)
Known For: Directing
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Bio
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.
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Himself (archive)
7.5
2024
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Himself
0.0
2024
The Exorcist Untold
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2023
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Self
7.3
2023
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Self · (1 episode)
7.7
2023
Algren
Self
6.0
2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Self
6.9
2021
Fellini of the Spirits
Self
6.6
2020
Friedkin Uncut
Self
7.2
2018
The Devil and Father Amorth
Himself
5.0
2018
Return to the Genre
0.0
2016
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
4.5
2015
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
6.7
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
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0.0
2014
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Self
10.0
2013
A Fuller Life
Self - Reader (segment "My Ballsy Yarns")
6.6
2013
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Self
6.1
2013
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Self
5.7
2013
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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6.0
2012
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
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6.5
2012
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
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7.0
2012
Making the Boys
Himself
5.1
2011
Miller's Tale
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7.1
2011
Godard Made in USA
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0.0
2010
The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
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0.0
2010
Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
Self
6.0
2010
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Self
0.0
2009
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Self
6.8
2009
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
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6.3
2009
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
Himself
7.5
2009
Anatomy of a Chase
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4.0
2009
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
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0.0
2008
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
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0.0
2008
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
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7.0
2008
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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6.0
2008
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Self
6.0
2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Self
6.9
2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Self
7.4
2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self
6.0
2007
The History of 'Cruising'
Self
6.5
2007
Exorcising 'Cruising'
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6.5
2007
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
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0.0
2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Self
6.0
2007
Shadows of Suspense
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0.0
2006
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
9.4
2005
A Little Solitaire
Himself
0.0
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Self · (1 episode)
7.0
2004
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Himself
8.0
2003
Filming “The Hunted”
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0.0
2003
Pursuing “The Hunted”
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0.0
2003
The Cutting Edge
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0.0
2003
A Decade Under the Influence
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8.0
2003
Through the Night with...
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
2002
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Self
7.0
2001
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Self
8.3
2000
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
Self · (1 episode)
8.2
1998
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Self - Director
7.3
1998
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
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6.0
1998
Howard Hawks: American Artist
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5.8
1997
Hollywood Halloween
Himself
6.0
1997
Fear in the Dark
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10.0
1991
The Simpsons
Dr. Kenneth Humphries (voice) · (1 episode)
8.0
1989
Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
10.0
1986
Conversation with Fritz Lang
Self
7.1
1975
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Self · (1 episode)
7.7
1955