William Wyler

Willi Wyler was born in Mulhouse in 1902 into a Jewish family, to a father of Swiss origin. In 1920 his mother sent him to the United States to one of his cousins, the head of Universal, where he worked as an errand boy, then as a set assistant, before becoming in 1925 the studio's youngest director. He received the Academy Award for Best Director three times, a record bettered only by John Ford. During the war, he made a documentary while flying aboard bombers. He died in Beverly Hills in 1981.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Best Years of Our LivesWilliam Wyler · 1946Cinema