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Birth Name: William David Friedkin

Born: 29 August 1935 Died: 7 August 2023

Country of origin: United States

Height: 6' 0"

Relationship Status: Married

Partner: Sherry Lansing


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The Idiot's Guide To Famous (Classic) Filmmakers (85 items)
list by Severin Severin
Published 11 years ago 14 comments
133 votes
Directors:The Filmography of... (207 items)
list by propelas
Published 13 years ago 21 comments
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Gone, but not forgotten (1847 items)
list by Agent Kermit D. Fonz
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago 10 comments
46 votes
Rest in Peace (463 items)
list by ercer
Published 12 years, 9 months ago 3 comments
42 votes
A Movie for every Director (part 2) (100 items)
list by xolmis
Published 10 years, 10 months ago 1 comment

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Description: Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with Orson Welles after seeing Citizen Kane (1941). He went to work for WGN TV immediately after graduating from high school where he started making documentaries, one of which won the Golden Gate Award at the 1962 San Francisco film festival. In 1965, he moved to Hollywood and immediately started directing TV shows, including an episode of ... (more)
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3. Killer Joe (2000)
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4. Rampage (1988)
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Movies

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2. Without Limits (1998)
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5. Making the Boys (2011)
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Gone, but not forgotten (1847 person items)
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Rest in Peace (463 person items)
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yord's Favorite Directors (40 person items)

"Favorite Film: Sorcerer "


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Favourite Directors (98 person items)

"Favourite films: The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A., and The French Connection "


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Greatest Directors (62 person items)

"The Exorcist (1973) The French Connection (1971) To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) Cruising (1980) Killer Joe (2011)"


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Every Best Director Winner (71 person items)

"1971-The French Connection "


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Films that Director's Never Got to Make or Wanted (81 person items)

"1974 Planned to make a movie about aliens and the myth of Atlantis but when Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" went into production, he decided to make a remake of "The Wages of Fear" instead ("Sorcerer") 1997 "The Ripper Diaries", thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as Jack the Ripper never went into production. "


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Venice Film Festival 2017 (175 person items)
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Die Hard (1970's) (8 movies items)

"Director!"


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