Directing
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.
Filmography
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
Film · 2026
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
Film · 2024
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Series · 2023
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
Film · 2022
Algren
Film · 2021
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
Film · 2021
Fellini of the Spirits
Film · 2020
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
Film · 2019
The Devil and Father Amorth
Film · 2018
Friedkin Uncut
Film · 2018
Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
Film · 2018
Return to the Genre
Film · 2016
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
Film · 2015
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Film · 2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
Film · 2014
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
Film · 2013
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Film · 2013
A Fuller Life
Film · 2013
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Film · 2013
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
Film · 2012
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
Film · 2012
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
Film · 2012
Miller's Tale
Film · 2011
Making the Boys
Film · 2011
Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
Film · 2010
The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
Film · 2010
Godard Made in USA
Film · 2010
Anatomy of a Chase
Film · 2009
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
Film · 2009
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Film · 2009
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
Film · 2009
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
Film · 2009
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
Film · 2008
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Film · 2008
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
Film · 2008
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Film · 2008
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
Film · 2007
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Film · 2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Film · 2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Film · 2007
The History of 'Cruising'
Film · 2007
Exorcising 'Cruising'
Film · 2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Film · 2007
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
Film · 2007
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Film · 2007
Shadows of Suspense
Film · 2006
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
Film · 2005
A Little Solitaire
Film · 2004
Leçon de Cinéma
Series · 2004
Filming “The Hunted”
Film · 2003
Pursuing “The Hunted”
Film · 2003
The Cutting Edge
Film · 2003
A Decade Under the Influence
Film · 2003
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Film · 2003
Narc: The Friedkin Connection
Film · 2003
Through the Night with...
Series · 2002
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
Film · 2001
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
Film · 2000
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
Film · 1998
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Film · 1998
Without Limits
Film · 1998
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Film · 1997
Hollywood Halloween
Film · 1997
Fear in the Dark
Film · 1991
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Film · 1986
Conversation with Fritz Lang
Film · 1975
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
Film · 1974