Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 - March 27, 2002) had a career as a screenwriter, film director and producer that spanned more than 50 years and more than 60 films.

Born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Poland).

He started work in late 1920s as screenwriter in Germany, then left for France, then United States after the rise of Adolf Hitler. His mother, grandmother, and stepfather died at Auschwitz.

Sharing an apartment with Peter Lorre, he broke into writing in Hollywood with classics like Ninotchka. He was a noted collector of modern art.

Billy Wilder died in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California.

Billy Wilder wrote or directed (or both) classics in more than one genre:

Film noir: Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, Sunset Boulevard
Comedy: Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, The Fortune Cookie
Other: Stalag 17, The Spirit of Saint Louis, Witness for the Prosecution

Oscars

Best Picture - won 1961
Best Director - six nominations, won 1946, 1961
Screenwriting - nine nominations, won 1946, 1951, and 1961. These included winning Best Picture, Director, and Original Screenplay for The Apartment (screenplay award shared with I.A.L. Diamond) -- the only time one person has won three Oscars for the same film.

Quotes

"My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu."
On post-World War II France: "It's a country where you can't tear the toilet paper but the currency crumbles in your hands."
"A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot."
"Nobody is perfect."
"I just made pictures I would've liked to see."

External links

WGA interview: http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/1995/1195/wilder.htm
Billy Wilder - The German-Hollywood Connection: http://www.german-way.com/cinema/bwilder.html
Film Noir and Billy Wilder: http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue10/features/wilder/
American Master - Billy Wilder: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/wilder_b.html

Modern Usage: Billy Wilder

Domain	Usage
Clever	Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. (references; author: Billy Wilder) I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons. (references; author: Billy Wilder) France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. (references; author: Billy Wilder)
Movie/TV Titles	Billy Wilder (1970) Wie haben Sie's gemacht? Billy Wilder (1992)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Billy Wilder

Domain	Title
Books	Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, a Personal Biography (reference) Close-up on Sunset Boulevard: Billy Wilder, Norma Desmond, and the Dark Hollywood Dream (reference) On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Billy Wilder DVD Collection (Sunset Boulevard/Stalag 17/Sabrina) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: Billy Wilder

Familiar Quotations: Billy Wilder

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Billy Wilder

Anagrams: Billy Wilder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
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Alternative Orthography: Billy Wilder

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Gloria Swanson acting in Paramount's "Sunset Boulevard," with Director Billy Wilder behind camera, seated over swimming pool, at a Wilshire Boulevard mansion in Los Angeles.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Billy Wilder	Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
	I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
	France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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billy wilder	49
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Billy Wilder

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Modern Usage: Billy Wilder

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Billy Wilder

Books

Theater & Movies

Photo Album: Billy Wilder

Familiar Quotations: Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Billy Wilder

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Anagrams: Billy Wilder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Billy Wilder

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