Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder · Arts & Literature
Film Director
1906, Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Sucha Beskidzka, Poland) — 2002, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Austria-Hungary · Germany · United States
Billy Wilder is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Film Director
Wilder was a director and screenwriter who became one of Hollywood's most acclaimed filmmakers, with classics including Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment; he won six Academy Awards. A Jew born in Galicia, he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and lost family members in the Holocaust before rebuilding his career in the United States.
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Film Director
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