Billy Wilder, Writer and Director of Classic Films, Is Dead at 95

The NYT | march 28, 2002 | Aljean Harmetz

[summer]

Billy Wilder. One of the giants of American film-making. (If not THE GIANT.) Rest in peace.

[summer]

Link to NYT obit is here

[summer]

Writer/Director Billy Wilder,
assisted by director Curtis Hanson, 2000 file photo.

[veronica]

A genius.

The Films of Billy Wilder

[Atlas Sneezed]

Billy Wilder directed Some like it Hot, in which appeared...

George Raft, who also appeared in Casino Royale with...

Peter Sellers, who appeared in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with...

Dudley Moore, who appeared in Wholly Moses with...

Dom DeLuise, who appeared in The Muppet Movie with...

Milton Berle, who appeared in Let's Make Love! with...

Marilyn Monroe, who starred in Some Like It Hot which was directed by...

Billy Wilder!

Can anyone go full circle by using less than the four other people I used?

[Revolting cat!]

Like they said, these things come in threes and this is the third post on this subject.
Our thanks to all contestants, you can stop posting now.

[summer]

Thanks for posting that link, veronica.

[summer]

My goodness, you are right. My apologies. He is such a genius, and I did not see any posts bouncing around on FR. But, I should have searched. I usually do. Thanks.

[summer]

I don't know if you saw this already, but...here's the real #3.

[PoisedWoman]

Nice connections. But HoWood is so incestuous, you were bound to find them. Thanks for looking.

[Revolting cat!]

Aw, come on, I was only joking, no apologies necessary. Yours is actually the first (and let's hope the last) proper post containing an honest-to-goodness legit obituary. (The other two might have been unconfirmed rumours for all we know!) Great job!

[summer]

You are very kind. Thank you.

[L.N. Smithee]

I bought The Fortune Cookie on VHS at Blockbuster a couple of months ago for about $3.00. I saw it maybe twenty years ago on TV. I haven't watched the tape yet, because some things are like fine wine or champagne -- you don't just open them for nothing. I will watch Fortune Cookie when I have something to celebrate.

[vikingchick]

Bump to your comments.

[summer]

Celebrate life.

We have lost three comedic geniuses in the span of 24 hours. Billy Wilder, Milton Berle, and Dudley Moore.

The time to celebrate is today.

[summer]

Thanks, vc.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That's # 3. They say celebrities always die in 3's

• Dudley Moore
• Milton Berle
• Billy Wilder

Spooky.

[Polonius]

... a truly great filmmaker. Sad news indeed.

[GB]

Time to dig out the funniest Cold War movie ever made ... Mr. Wilder's "One, Two, Three" with James Cagney.

[foreshadowed at waco]

spent the last 21 years of his vivid life imploring Hollywood to let him make another movie

This line made me feel so sad...Billie Wilder was one of the greatest directors of the 20th century...why did Hollywood abandon him?