William Wilder

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Film_Director
gptkbp:activeYears 1929
1981
gptkbp:awards Academy Award for Best Director
Golden Globe Award
6 Academy Awards
1 BAFTA Award
1 Directors Guild of America Award
2 Golden Globe Awards
1 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute
gptkbp:birthDate 1906-06-22
gptkbp:birthPlace Sucha_Beskidzka,_Poland
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Cemetery_of_the_Holy_Cross,_Culver_City,_California
gptkbp:children gptkb:Vincent_Wilder
gptkbp:collaboratedWith gptkb:Charles_Brackett
gptkb:I.A._L._Diamond
gptkbp:deathDate 2002-03-27
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Vienna
gptkbp:famousQuote “The audience is a very important part of the film.”
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
“I’m a writer, but I’m also a director.”
gptkbp:filmography gptkb:The_Major_and_the_Minor
gptkbp:genre Comedy
Drama
Thriller
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William Wilder
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Woody_Allen
gptkb:Quentin_Tarantino
Martin Scorsese
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Ernst_Lubitsch
gptkb:Fritz_Lang
gptkbp:knownFor Directing
Screenwriting
Producing
gptkbp:nationality American
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Sunset_Boulevard
Double Indemnity
Some Like It Hot
The Apartment
The Lost Weekend
gptkbp:produces Buddy_Buddy
gptkbp:signature Satire
Film Noir
Dark Comedy
gptkbp:spouse Judith_Coppage