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May 28, 2024 · William Friedkin (born August 29, 1935, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died August 7, 2023, Los Angeles, California) was an American film director who was best known for The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973). (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) While a teenager, Friedkin began working in Chicago ...
William Friedkin. Director: To Live and Die in L.A.. Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with Orson Welles after seeing Citizen Kane (1941 ...
Aug 8, 2023 · FILE - Director William Friedkin poses for portraits after interviews for his film “Killer Joe” in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” died Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, in Los Angeles, his wife, producer and former studio head Sherry Lansing told The Hollywood Reporter.
Aug 8, 2023 · He Did It All: William Friedkin (1935-2023) Scout Tafoya August 08, 2023. Tweet. Everybody who has seen horror movies remembers the image that most frightened them, that put the hook in them, that alerted them to the idea that a movie could contain more than its fair share of the malevolence of the universe in its images.
Aug 7, 2023 · He was 87. Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for "The French Connection," died Monday in Los Angeles, Marcia Franklin, his executive assistant for 24 years, told The Associated Press on ...
Aug 12, 2023 · By all accounts, including Friedkin’s own, that pugnacity was a quality he possessed from childhood, and honed in Chicago, Illinois, where he was born in 1935 to Rachael and Louis Friedkin ...
Aug 7, 2023 · William Friedkin, the maverick film director who helped revolutionize 1970s Hollywood with the electrifying, era-defining classics “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” died Monday ...
