Billy Wilder was a Polish-born film director and screenwriter.
Career
Notable Works
- 1933: Adorable
- 1934: Music in the Air
- 1935: The Lottery Lover
- 1937: Champagne Waltz
- 1939: What a Life
- 1940: Rhythm on the River
- 1941: Ball of Fire
- 1942: The Major and the Minor
- 1943: Five Graves to Cairo
- 1944: Double Indemnity
- 1947: The Bishop's Wife
- 1948: The Emperor Waltz
- 1950: Sunset Boulevard
- 1951: Ace in the Hole
- 1953: Stalag 17
- 1954: Sabrina
- 1955: The Seven Year Itch
- 1957: Love in the Afternoon
- 1959: Some Like It Hot
- 1960: Ocean's Eleven
- 1961: One, Two, Three
- 1963: Irma la Douce
- 1964: Kiss Me, Stupid
- 1966: The Fortune Cookie
- 1967: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
- 1972: Avanti!
- 1974: The Front Page
- 1978: Fedora
- 1981: Buddy Buddy
Quote
- "Treat your audience intelligently. What movies can do, at their best, is let us in -- they show us things, they don't tell us." - Billy Wilder