William Friedkin
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.
Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
(Self)
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
(Self)
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
(Self)
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
(Self)
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
(Self)
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
(Self - Director)
A Little Solitaire
(Himself)
Miller's Tale
(Self)
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
(Himself)
Anatomy of a Chase
(Self)
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
(Self)
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
(Self)
The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
(Self)
Conversation with Fritz Lang
(Self)
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(Self)
Filming “The Hunted”
(Self)
Pursuing “The Hunted”
(Self)
The Cutting Edge
(Self)
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
(Self)
The Exorcist Untold
(Self (archive footage))
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
(Self)
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
(Self)
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
(Self)
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
(Self)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
(Self - Filmmaker (archive footage))
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
(Self)
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
(Himself (archive))
Fear in the Dark
(Self)
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
(Self)
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
(Self)
A Fuller Life
(Self - Reader (segment "My Ballsy Yarns"))
A Decade Under the Influence
(Self)
The History of 'Cruising'
(Self)
Exorcising 'Cruising'
(Self)
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
(Self)
Making the Boys
(Himself)
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
(Self)
The Devil and Father Amorth
(Himself)
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
(Self)
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
(Himself)
Friedkin Uncut
(Self)
Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Algren
(Self)
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
(Self)
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
(Himself)
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
(Self)
Henri Langlois vu par...
(Self)
Godard Made in USA
(Self)
Fellini of the Spirits
(Self)
Howard Hawks: American Artist
(Self)
Hollywood Halloween
(Himself)
Return to the Genre
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
(Self)
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
(Self)
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
(Self)
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
(Self)
Shadows of Suspense
(Self)
100 Years of Warner Bros.
(Self)
Through the Night with...
(Self)
Leçon de Cinéma
(Self)
The Simpsons
(Dr. Kenneth Humphries (voice))
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
(Self)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
(Self)
The French Connection
(Director)
Rules of Engagement
(Director)
The Hunted
(Director)
Deal of the Century
(Director)
The Brink's Job
(Director)
Jade
(Director)
The Guardian
(Director)
Bug
(Director)
12 Angry Men
(Director)
To Live and Die in L.A.
(Director)
The Exorcist
(Director)
To Live and Die in L.A.
(Screenplay)
The Boys in the Band
(Director)
Cruising
(Writer)
Cruising
(Director)
The Night They Raided Minsky's
(Director)
Sorcerer
(Director)
Killer Joe
(Director)
Blue Chips
(Director)
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
(Thanks)
The People vs. Paul Crump
(Director)
Rampage
(Director)
Rampage
(Writer)
The Birthday Party
(Director)
Good Times
(Director)
Jailbreakers
(Director)
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
(Director)
The Pickle Brothers
(Director)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
(Teleplay)
C.A.T. Squad
(Executive Producer)
C.A.T. Squad
(Director)
Conversation with Fritz Lang
(Director)
The Guardian
(Screenplay)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
(Director)
Verdi Aida
(Stage Director)
Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon
(Director)
The French Connection
(Screenplay)
Sorcerer
(Screenplay)
The Bold Men
(Director)
The Painter's Voice
(Director)
The Devil and Father Amorth
(Director)
Rampage
(Producer)
Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
(Director)
The Devil and Father Amorth
(Writer)
Self Control
(Director)
Muggins
(Producer)
The Thin Blue Line
(Producer)
The Thin Blue Line
(Director)
Good Times
(Screenplay)
The People vs. Paul Crump
(Producer)
Sorcerer
(Producer)
Henri Langlois vu par...
(Director)
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
(Story)
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
(Executive Producer)
The Thin Blue Line
(Story)
The Twilight Zone
(Director)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
(Director)
Tales from the Crypt
(Director)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
(Director)
Rebel Highway
(Director)