Born in 1906 in what is now Poland and died in 2002, Wilder worked as a screenwriter in Berlin before fleeing the Nazis for Hollywood. He moved between film noir, satire and comedy with a sharp, cynical wit and won Oscars for directing and writing.
Filmography
- The Major and the Minor (1942)
- Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- The Lost Weekend (1945)
- A Foreign Affair (1948)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Ace in the Hole (1951)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Sabrina (1954)
- The Seven Year Itch (1955)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Apartment (1960)
- One, Two, Three (1961)
- Irma la Douce (1963)
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
- Fedora (1978)
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