Billy Wilder

Died in 2002

Samuel Wilder was born in 1906 in Sucha, in Galicia, into a Jewish family that ran railway station cafés. A journalist in Vienna and then in Berlin, where he was also, by his own account, a dancer for hire, he wrote screenplays before leaving Germany for Paris in 1933, in the wake of the Reichstag fire, then reached Hollywood in 1934 speaking almost no English. His mother, his grandmother and his stepfather died in the Shoah. He directed twenty-six films, almost always with a co-writer, and received six Oscars. He died in Beverly Hills in 2002, aged ninety-five.

In the catalogue 3

CinemaDouble IndemnityBilly Wilder · 1944Cinema
CinemaSunset BoulevardBilly Wilder · 1950Cinema
CinemaOne, Two, ThreeBilly Wilder · 1961Cinema