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William Wyler (July 1, 1902 – July 27, 1981) was a leading American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Notable works include Ben-Hur (1959), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Mrs. Miniver (1942), all which won Wyler Academy Awards for Best Director, and also won Best Picture. He earned his first Oscar nomination for directing Dodsworth in 1936, sparking a 20-year run of almost unbroken greatness.
Film historian Ian Freer calls Wyler a “bona fide perfectionist,” whose penchant for retakes and an attempt to hone every last nuance “became the stuff of legend.” His ability to direct a string of classic literary adaptations into huge box office and critical successes made him one of Hollywood’s most bankable moviemakers during the 1930s and 1940s.
Other popular films include Hell’s Heroes (1930), A House Divided (1931), Jezebel (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Letter (1940), The Westerner (1940), The Heiress (1949), Roman Holiday (1953), The Big Country (1958), How to Steal a Million (1966), and Funny Girl (1968).
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William Wyler Biography / Wiki
| Name | William Wyler |
| Also Know | Wilhelm Weiller, Bill Wyler, 윌리엄 와ì¼ëŸ¬, 윌리암 와ì¼ëŸ¬ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Mülhausen, France |
| Date of Birth | 1902-07-01 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 79 |
| Deathday | 1981-07-27 |
William Wyler Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema | Himself (archive footage) | 2005-09-13 | Current filmmakers such as Ridley Scott and George Lucas reflect on the importance and influence of the epic classic “Ben-Hur”…. |
| The Cold Blue | Himself (archive footage) | 2018-05-23 | A meditation on youth, war and stunning bravery, featuring footage, taken from the National Archives, from the documentary filmed in 1943 by legendary… |
| Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic | Himself – Director (archive footage) | 1993-01-01 | The story of how the classic epic “Ben-Hur” was made…. |
| Backstory: How Green Was My Valley | Self (archive footage) | 2000-10-14 | Documentary about how the creative energies of Darryl F. Zanuck and John Ford combined to forge an enduring masterpiece despite the challenges of wart… |
| Fun in the Big Country | Self | 1958-01-01 | Behind-the-scenes look during the filming of William Wyler’s 1958 western, “The Big Country.”… |
| Hollywood’s Second World War | Self (archive footage) | 2019-09-08 | For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war – to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of … |
| Stars of Cabaret | 1956-01-01 | A collection of amateur films made by photographer Roderic Vickers and friends. These are followed by film shot by Vickers in Australia during product… | |
| Five Came Back | Self (archival footage) | 2017-03-31 | The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five l… |
| Directed by William Wyler | Self | 1986-05-01 | Documentary about the famed Hollywood director…. |
| Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies | Self | 2001-10-07 | The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood’s greatest independent producers, is remembered in this … |
| Sword-and-Sandal | Himself (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 | The silent cinema had already created colossal movies based on ancient civilizations, but it is in the 1950s when peplums reach their apogee in Hollyw… |
| Dodsworth | Violin Player in Dance Orchestra (Uncredited) | 1936-09-23 | A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life…. |
| The Screen Director | 1951-03-12 | A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for… | |
William Wyler Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Ben-Hur | Director | 1959-11-18 | In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of tr… |
| Roman Holiday | Director | 1953-08-26 | Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor k… |
| The Best Years of Our Lives | Director | 1946-12-25 | It’s the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrive… |
| Jezebel | Director | 1938-03-26 | In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her…. |
| How to Steal a Million | Director | 1966-07-13 | A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father’s art forgeries…. |
| Wuthering Heights | Director | 1939-04-07 | The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged l… |
| The Children’s Hour | Director | 1961-12-19 | A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student accuses the two young women who run the school of being in a relationship…. |
| Detective Story | Director | 1951-11-01 | Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a preci… |
| Dodsworth | Director | 1936-09-23 | A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life…. |
| The Big Country | Director | 1958-09-30 | Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach … |
| Mrs. Miniver | Director | 1942-07-03 | English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II…. |
| Dead End | Director | 1937-08-27 | Mobster “Baby Face” Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his… |
| The Heiress | Director | 1949-10-06 | Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than … |
| The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | Director | 1944-04-13 | This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi… |
| The Westerner | Director | 1940-09-18 | Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by… |
| The Collector | Director | 1965-06-17 | Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherw… |
| Carrie | Director | 1952-07-17 | Carrie’s dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly pa… |
| Friendly Persuasion | Director | 1956-11-25 | The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It’s not easy for them to meet the … |
| The Little Foxes | Director | 1941-08-29 | The ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the 20th century. Regina Giddons née Hubbard ha… |
| Funny Girl | Director | 1968-09-19 | The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the … |
| The Good Fairy | Director | 1935-02-18 | In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing go… |
| The Letter | Director | 1940-11-21 | After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises strong suspicions…. |
| The Desperate Hours | Director | 1955-10-05 | Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage…. |
| Counsellor at Law | Director | 1933-12-25 | A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife’s unfaithfulness and his own hidden past…. |
| The Gay Deception | Director | 1935-09-13 | Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she… |
| These Three | Director | 1936-03-18 | Martha and Karen graduate from college and turn an old Massachusetts farm into a school for girls. The friends are aided in their venture by local doc… |
| Come and Get It | Director | 1936-11-06 | An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter…. |
| The Liberation of L.B. Jones | Director | 1970-03-18 | Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand a… |
| The Love Trap | Director | 1929-08-04 | A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family i… |
| A House Divided | Director | 1931-12-05 | A New England fisherman’s (Walter Huston) second wife (Helen Chandler) prefers his son (Kent Douglass)…. |
| The Shakedown | Director | 1929-03-09 | The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan…. |
| Hell’s Heroes | Director | 1929-12-27 | Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as… |
| The Two Fister | Director | 1927-01-07 | Cobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Field falls for the girl, but her father’s d… |
| Her First Mate | Director | 1933-08-03 | A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas…. |
| Glamour | Director | 1934-04-09 | … |
| Thunderbolt | Director | 1947-07-26 | Documentary about the U.S. Air Force’s P-47 Thunderbolt bomber’s role in the Italian Campaign…. |
| Tom Brown of Culver | Director | 1932-06-30 | Boy who thought his father a war hero finds he was really a deserter…. |
| The Storm | Director | 1930-08-17 | Burr and Dave, two close friends who have backed each other up in countless difficulties, are torn apart by the arrival of a woman, Manette, who becom… |
| The Stolen Ranch | Director | 1926-12-26 | Returning home from the Great War, “Breezy” Hart (Fred Humes) and his shell-shocked buddy Frank Wilcox (Ralph McCullough) discover the Wilcox property… |
| Thunder Riders | Director | 1928-04-07 | As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack…. |
| Blazing Days | Director | 1927-03-27 | While he goes to his lender to repay his debts, Sam Perry is robbed. He decides to hunt down the bandit, whose description corresponds strangely to th… |
| Straight Shootin’ | Director | 1927-03-31 | Bandits kidnap an old prospector, threatening to let him starve if he refuses to reveal the location of his gold mine. The old man’s partner, hoping t… |
| The Fire Barrier | Director | 1926-06-12 | An irascible and brutal boss, Will King, owner of the Deux Croix ranch, sends his employees back on the slightest pretext. Only his wife resists him. … |
| The Border Cavalier | Director | 1927-09-18 | American Western film directed by William Wyler and written by Basil Dickey and Gardner Bradford…. |
| Lazy Lightning | Director | 1926-12-12 | American silent western film directed by William Wyler… |
| Hard Fists | Director | 1927-04-24 | The story is about a fake army colonel who blackmails Alvord into doing his bidding, including smearing a rancher and his pretty daughter …. |
| Anybody Here Seen Kelly? | Director | 1928-09-09 | Anybody Here Seen Kelly? is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by William Wyler. This was the first non-Western film to be directed by Wyler … |
| Ridin’ for Love | Director | 1926-04-17 | Robert Kane, owner of the Bar-L Ranch, has received word from his attorney that he will have to marry Ann Scott before the 15th of the month, whom he … |
| The Crook Buster | Director | 1925-12-26 | A 1925 silent Western… |
| Don’t Shoot | Director | 1926-08-07 | Nancy Burton, niece of the sheriff, is in love with Deputy Tom Farrell, but she as an aversion to bloodshed. She overhears that he shot and killed an … |
| The Gunless Bad Man | Director | 1926-03-13 | Plot unknown…. |
| Martin of the Mounted | Director | 1926-12-11 | Plot unknown…. |
| The Horse Trader | Director | 1927-08-20 | Plot unknown…. |
| The Fighting Lady | Director | 1944-12-21 | Oscar winner William Wyler directed this 1944 “newsdrama,” narrated by Lieut. Robert Taylor, USNR (Bataan), and photographed in zones of combat by the… |
| Director | Eleven heart pounding WWII films, more than five hours of vintage content in one definitive collection. WWII: Air War contains 11 remarkable documenta… | ||
William Wyler Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Ben-Hur | Producer | 1959-11-18 | In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of tr… |
| Roman Holiday | Producer | 1953-08-26 | Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor k… |
| Jezebel | Producer | 1938-03-26 | In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her…. |
| The Big Country | Producer | 1958-09-30 | Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach … |
| The Letter | Producer | 1940-11-21 | After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises strong suspicions…. |
| The Desperate Hours | Producer | 1955-10-05 | Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage…. |
| Carrie | Producer | 1952-07-17 | Carrie’s dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly pa… |
| The Heiress | Producer | 1949-10-06 | Dull and plain Catherine lives with her emotionally distant father, Dr. Sloper, in 1840s New York. Her days are empty — filled with little more than … |
| Friendly Persuasion | Producer | 1956-11-25 | The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It’s not easy for them to meet the … |
| Detective Story | Producer | 1951-11-01 | Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a preci… |
| Mrs. Miniver | Producer | 1942-07-03 | English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II…. |
| The Love Trap | Producer | 1929-08-04 | A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family i… |
| The Children’s Hour | Producer | 1961-12-19 | A private school for young girls is scandalized when one spiteful student accuses the two young women who run the school of being in a relationship…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | Writer | 1944-04-13 | This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi… |
| Ridin’ for Love | Story | 1926-04-17 | Robert Kane, owner of the Bar-L Ranch, has received word from his attorney that he will have to marry Ann Scott before the 15th of the month, whom he … |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress | Director of Photography | 1944-04-13 | This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi… |
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