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3 Videos. 99+ Photos. Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf ...

Billy Wilder, original name Samuel Wilder, (born June 22, 1906, Sucha, Austria [now in Poland]—died March 27, 2002, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.), Austrian-born American motion-picture scenarist, director, and producer known for films that humorously treat subjects of controversy and offer biting indictments of hypocrisy in American life.

Billy Wilder filmography. Billy Wilder (1906–2002) was an Austrian filmmaker. Wilder initially pursued a career in journalism after being inspired by an American newsreel. [1] He worked for the Austrian magazine Die Bühne and the newspaper Die Stunde in Vienna, and later for the German newspapers Berliner Nachtausgabe, and Berliner Börsen ...

6.1 Rate After his father sells his car, Henri "borrows" a stranger's car in order to make a date with a young woman. This act sees him fall foul of a gang of car thieves but after some discussion he joins their gang. Directors: Alexander Esway, Billy Wilder | Stars: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle, Paul Escoffier Votes: 891 2.

Billy Wilder Highest Rated: 100% A Foreign Affair (1948) Lowest Rated: 44% Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Birthday: Jun 22, 1906 Birthplace: Sucha, Galicia, Austria

Billy Wilder. Writer: The Apartment. Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid.

Premiere: 2/4/1998 From the late 1930s to the early 1960s, Billy Wilder dominated Hollywood’s Golden Age. With over fifty films and six Academy Awards to his credit, he is one of Hollywood’s...

Billy Wilder in Paris, 1962. (Jean-Regis Rouston / Roger-Viollet / Getty Images) A mong the many stories that Billy Wilder liked to tell late in his life was the one he recounted with great...