William Friedkin
Directing
1935-08-29 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
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
TheatersMineshaft: The Cruising Murders
2026 · Movie
Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist
2024 · Movie
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
2023 · Movie
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023 · Series
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
2022 · Movie
Algren
2021 · Movie
I Am Alfred Hitchcock
2021 · Movie
Fellini of the Spirits
2020 · Movie
Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
2019 · Movie
Friedkin Uncut
2018 · Movie
Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story
2018 · Movie
The Devil and Father Amorth
2018 · Movie
Return to the Genre
2016 · Movie
Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn
2015 · Movie
Verdi Aida
2015 · Movie
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014 · Movie
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014 · Movie
The Making of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
2013 · Movie
A Fuller Life
2013 · Movie
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013 · Movie
Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot
2013 · Movie
Stanley Kubrick in Focus
2012 · Movie
Killer Joe
2012 · Movie
Casablanca: An Unlikely Classic
2012 · Movie
Michael Curtiz: The Greatest Director You Never Heard Of
2012 · Movie
Making the Boys
2011 · Movie
Miller's Tale
2011 · Movie
Godard Made in USA
2010 · Movie
The Exorcist Locations: Georgetown Then and Now
2010 · Movie
Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist
2010 · Movie
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
2009 · Movie
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
2009 · Movie
North by Northwest: One for the Ages
2009 · Movie
Victor Fleming: Master Craftsman
2009 · Movie
Anatomy of a Chase
2009 · Movie
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
2008 · Movie
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
2008 · Movie
Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock
2008 · Movie
The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't
2008 · Movie
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007 · Movie
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007 · Movie
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007 · Movie
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007 · Movie
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007 · Movie
Exorcising 'Cruising'
2007 · Movie
The History of 'Cruising'
2007 · Movie
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
2007 · Movie
The Painter's Voice
2007 · Movie
Bug
2007 · Movie
The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo
2007 · Movie
Shadows of Suspense
2006 · Movie
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
2005 · Movie
A Little Solitaire
2004 · Movie
Leçon de Cinéma
2004 · Series
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003 · Movie
Filming “The Hunted”
2003 · Movie
The Cutting Edge
2003 · Movie
Pursuing “The Hunted”
2003 · Movie
Narc: The Friedkin Connection
2003 · Movie
A Decade Under the Influence
2003 · Movie
The Hunted
2003 · Movie
Through the Night with...
2002 · Series
Making the Connection: Untold Stories of The French Connection
2001 · Movie
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · Series
Rules of Engagement
2000 · Movie
The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection'
2000 · Movie
Without Limits
1998 · Movie
The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist
1998 · Movie
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998 · Movie
12 Angry Men
1997 · Movie
Hollywood Halloween
1997 · Movie
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997 · Movie
Jade
1995 · Movie
Jailbreakers
1994 · Movie
Rebel Highway
1994 · Series
Blue Chips
1994 · Movie
Fear in the Dark
1991 · Movie
The Guardian
1990 · Movie
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Series
C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf
1988 · Movie
Rampage
1987 · Movie
C.A.T. Squad
1986 · Movie
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986 · Movie
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · Movie
The Twilight Zone
1985 · Series
Deal of the Century
1983 · Movie
Cruising
1980 · Movie
The Brink's Job
1978 · Movie
Sorcerer
1977 · Movie
Conversation with Fritz Lang
1975 · Movie
Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist
1974 · Movie
The Exorcist
1973 · Movie
The French Connection
1971 · Movie
The Boys in the Band
1970 · Movie
The Night They Raided Minsky's
1968 · Movie
The Birthday Party
1968 · Movie
Good Times
1967 · Movie
The Pickle Brothers
1967 · Movie
Muggins
1967 · Movie
The Thin Blue Line
1966 · Movie
Pro Football: Mayhem on a Sunday Afternoon
1965 · Movie
The Bold Men
1965 · Movie
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Series
The People vs. Paul Crump
1962 · Movie