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.
39 directing credits · 67 acting credits
Directing · 39
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Twilight Zone
1985
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The Exorcist
1973
Rebel Highway
1994
12 Angry Men
1997
Sorcerer
1977
The French Connection
1971
The Hunted
2003
Cruising
1980
Killer Joe
2012
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Jade
1995
Rules of Engagement
2000
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
2023
Bug
2007
Blue Chips
1994
Rampage
1987
Deal of the Century
1983
The Guardian
1990
The Brink's Job
1978
The Boys in the Band
1970
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968
Jailbreakers
1994
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Good Times
1967
The Devil and Father Amorth
2018
The Birthday Party
1968
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
1988
C.A.T. Squad
1986
The Pickle Brothers
1967
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986
The Thin Blue Line
1966
The Bold Men
1965
Conversation with Fritz Lang
1975
The Painter's Voice
2007
The People vs. Paul Crump
1962
Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon
1965
Acting · 67
The Simpsons
1989
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
Through the Night with...
2002
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008
Without Limits
1998
Friedkin Uncut
2018
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
2019
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
1998
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
2009
Godard Made in USA
2010
Exorcising 'Cruising'
2007
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
A Fuller Life
2013
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007
The Devil and Father Amorth
2018
Filming “The Hunted”
2003
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
2009
The History of 'Cruising'
2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007
The Cutting Edge
2003
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
2009
Fellini of the Spirits
2020
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
2015
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
2012
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
2009
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
2024
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986
Making the Boys
2011
Algren
2021
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012
The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
2010
Hollywood Halloween
1997
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007
Fear in the Dark
1991
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026
Pursuing “The Hunted”
2003
Miller's Tale
2011
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
2022
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
1974
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
2010
Shadows of Suspense
2006
Conversation with Fritz Lang
1975
Anatomy of a Chase
2009
Narc: The Friedkin Connection
2003
A Little Solitaire
2004
Return to the Genre
2016