William Friedkin
Known for: Directing
Born: August 29, 1935
Died: August 7, 2023
William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award n…
Known for
A Little Solitaire
2004
Anatomy of a Chase
2009
Conversation with Fritz Lang
1975
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
2009
Making the Boys
2011
The Devil and Father Amorth
2018
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003
Friedkin Uncut
2018
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
2015
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
2019
Return to the Genre
2016
Narc: The Friedkin Connection
2003
Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
2010
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008
Miller's Tale
2011
The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
2010
Pursuing “The Hunted”
2003
The Cutting Edge
2003
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
2009
Hollywood Halloween
1997
Shadows of Suspense
2006
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
2022
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
1974
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
2024
Filming “The Hunted”
2003
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012
Fear in the Dark
1991
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
1998
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
Godard Made in USA
2010
Fellini of the Spirits
2020
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
2007
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
2009
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
2012
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986
Algren
2021
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
A Fuller Life
2013
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
2009
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
Exorcising 'Cruising'
2007
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
The History of 'Cruising'
2007
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007
Without Limits
1998
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
Through the Night with...
2002
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
The Simpsons
1989