Birthday
1935/08/29
Day of death
2023/08/07 (88 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also know as
윌리엄 프리드킨, 윌리암 프리드킨
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 n...Read more
(2010) Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
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(2008) The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
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(2007) Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
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(2005) Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
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(2008) Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
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(2008) Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
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(1998) The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
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(2004) A Little Solitaire
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(2011) Miller's Tale
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(2024) Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
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(2009) Anatomy of a Chase
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(2007) Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
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(2013) Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
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(2010) The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
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(1975) Conversation with Fritz Lang
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(2013) The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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(2003) Pursuing “The Hunted”
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(2003) The Cutting Edge
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(2003) Filming “The Hunted”
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(2009) Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
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(2023) The Exorcist Untold
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(2012) Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
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(2001) Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
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(2007) View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
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(2007) The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
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(2014) Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
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(2012) Stanley Kubrick in Focus
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(2024) Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
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(1991) Fear in the Dark
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(2009) The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
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(2009) North by Northwest: One for the Ages
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(2013) A Fuller Life
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(2003) A Decade Under the Influence
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(2007) The History of 'Cruising'
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(2007) Exorcising 'Cruising'
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(2008) In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
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(2011) Making the Boys
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(1998) Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
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(2018) The Devil and Father Amorth
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(2012) Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
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(2003) Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
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(2018) Friedkin Uncut
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(1986) Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
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(2021) Algren
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(2007) Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
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(2009) Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
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(2015) Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
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(2023) Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
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(2014) Henri Langlois vu par...
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(2010) Godard Made in USA
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(2020) Fellini of the Spirits
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(1997) Howard Hawks: American Artist
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(1997) Hollywood Halloween
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(2016) Return to the Genre
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(2007) The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
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(2013) Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
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(2021) I Am Alfred Hitchcock
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(2000) The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
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(2006) Shadows of Suspense
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(2022) The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
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(1998) Without Limits
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(2023) 100 Years of Warner Bros.
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(2002) Through the Night with...
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(2004) Leçon de Cinéma
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(1989) The Simpsons
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(1998) AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
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(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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