William Friedkin
Directing • Born 1935-08-29 – Died 2023-08-07
Biography
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 nomination for Best Director. Friedkin's other films in the 1970s and 1980s include the drama The Boys in the Band (1970), considered a milestone of queer cinema; the originally deprecated, now lauded thriller Sorcerer (1977); the crime comedy drama The Brink's Job (1978); the controversial thriller Cruising (1980); and the neo-noir thriller To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Although Friedkin's works suffered an overall commercial and critical decline in the late 1980s, his last three feature films, all based on plays, were positively received by critics: the psychological horror film Bug (2006), the crime film Killer Joe (2011), and the legal drama film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023), released two months after his death. He also worked extensively as an opera director from 1998 until his death, and directed various television films and series episodes for television. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Friedkin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
66 credits
Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
Movie • 2010
Self
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Movie • 2008
Self
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
Movie • 2007
Self
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Movie • 2005
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Movie • 2008
Self
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
Movie • 2008
Self
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Movie • 1998
Self - Director
A Little Solitaire
Movie • 2004
Self
Miller's Tale
Movie • 2011
Self
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Movie • 2024
Self
Anatomy of a Chase
Movie • 2009
Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Movie • 2007
Self
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Movie • 2013
Self
The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
Movie • 2010
Self
Conversation with Fritz Lang
Movie • 1975
Self
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Movie • 2013
Self
Filming “The Hunted”
Movie • 2003
Self
Pursuing “The Hunted”
Movie • 2003
Self
The Cutting Edge
Movie • 2003
Self
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Movie • 2009
Self
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Movie • 2012
Self
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Movie • 2001
Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Movie • 2007
Self
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Movie • 2007
Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie • 2014
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Movie • 2012
Self
Fear in the Dark
Movie • 1991
Self
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Movie • 2009
Self
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Movie • 2009
Self
A Fuller Life
Movie • 2013
Self - Reader (segment "My Ballsy Yarns")
A Decade Under the Influence
Movie • 2003
Self
The History of 'Cruising'
Movie • 2007
Self
Exorcising 'Cruising'
Movie • 2007
Self
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Movie • 2008
Self
Making the Boys
Movie • 2011
Self
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Movie • 1998
Self
The Devil and Father Amorth
Movie • 2018
Self
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
Movie • 2012
Self
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Movie • 2003
Self
Friedkin Uncut
Movie • 2018
Self
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Movie • 1986
Self
Algren
Movie • 2021
Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Movie • 2007
Self
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
Movie • 2009
Self
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
Movie • 2015
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Movie • 2019
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie • 2014
Self
Godard Made in USA
Movie • 2010
Self
Fellini of the Spirits
Movie • 2020
Self
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Movie • 1997
Self
Hollywood Halloween
Movie • 1997
Self
Return to the Genre
Movie • 2016
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Movie • 2007
Self
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Movie • 2013
Self
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Movie • 2000
Self
Shadows of Suspense
Movie • 2006
Self
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
Movie • 2022
Self
Without Limits
Movie • 1998
TV Director
Narc: The Friedkin Connection
Movie • 2003
Self
The History of 'Cruising'
Movie • 2007
Self
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
Movie • 1974
Self
100 Years of Warner Bros.
TV • 2023
Self
Through the Night with...
TV • 2002
Self
Leçon de Cinéma
TV • 2004
Self
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Dr. Kenneth Humphries (voice)