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Name
William Friedkin

Known For
Directing

Birthday
1935-08-29

Deathday
2023-08-07 (88 years old)

Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, USA

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.

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Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2010 Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist as Self
2008 The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't as Self
2007 Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen as Self
2005 Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2008 Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock as Self
2008 Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock as Self
1998 The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist as Self - Director
2004 A Little Solitaire as Self
2011 Miller's Tale as Self
2024 Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist as Self
2009 Anatomy of a Chase as Self
2007 Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' as Self
2013 Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot as Self
2010 The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now as Self
1975 Conversation with Fritz Lang as Self
2013 The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz as Self
2003 Filming “The Hunted” as Self
2003 Pursuing “The Hunted” as Self
2003 The Cutting Edge as Self
2009 Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock as Self
2012 Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic as Self
2001 Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection as Self
2007 The Visions of Stanley Kubrick as Self
2007 View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' as Self
2014 Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2012 Stanley Kubrick in Focus as Self
1991 Fear in the Dark as Self
2009 The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style as Self
2009 North by Northwest: One for the Ages as Self
2013 A Fuller Life as Self - Reader (segment "My Ballsy Yarns")
2003 A Decade Under the Influence as Self
2007 The History of 'Cruising' as Self
2007 Exorcising 'Cruising' as Self
2008 In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy as Self
2011 Making the Boys as Self
1998 Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy as Self
2018 The Devil and Father Amorth as Self
2012 Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of as Self
2003 Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.' as Self
2018 Friedkin Uncut as Self
1986 Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album as Self
2021 Algren as Self
2007 Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 as Self
2009 Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman as Self
2015 Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
2019 Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist as Self
2014 Henri Langlois vu par... as Self
2010 Godard Made in USA as Self
2020 Fellini of the Spirits as Self
1997 Howard Hawks: American Artist as Self
1997 Hollywood Halloween as Self
2016 Return to the Genre
2007 The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo as Self
2013 Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck as Self
2021 I Am Alfred Hitchcock as Self (archive footage)
2000 The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' as Self
2006 Shadows of Suspense as Self
2022 The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons as Self
1998 Without Limits as TV Director
2003 Narc: The Friedkin Connection as Self
1974 Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist as Self
2026 Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders as Self (archive footage)
2007 Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 as Self

2023 100 Years of Warner Bros. ( 1 episode ) as Self
2002 Through the Night with... ( 1 episode ) as Self
2004 Leçon de Cinéma ( 1 episode ) as Self
1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Kenneth Humphries (voice)

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