March 28, 2002 Billy Wilder, Writer and Director of Classic Films, Is Dead at 95 By ALJEAN HARMETZ Billy Wilder, the caustic writer and director who won six Academy Awards and international acclaim as one of the world's great filmmakers and then spent the last 21 years of his vivid life imploring Hollywood to let him make another movie, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, a longtime friend told The Associated Press. He was 95. Mr. Wilder's health had been failing in recent months and had been suffering with pneumonia recently, George Schlatter, a producer and friend of...