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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Billy Wilder, Michael Haneke, Hans Karl Breslauer, Luise Fleck, Ernst Neubach, Jed Harris, Joseph Delmont, Gustav Ucicky, Rudolf Bernauer, Hubert Marischka, Jacob Fleck, Salka Viertel, Nina Kusturica, E. W. Emo, Herbert Rappaport, Michael Kehlmann, George Froeschel, F. Hugh Herbert, Walter Reisch, Walter Kolm-Veltee, Peter Kern, Jessica Hausner, Harald Kloser, Ernst Marischka, Rolf Olsen, Max Neufeld, Peter Patzak, Michael Glawogger, Ruth Mader, Alf Brustellin, Franz Josef Gottlieb, Herbert Holba, Edwin Zbonek, Michael Schottenberg, Rudolf Zehetgruber, Peter Keglevic, Egon Eis, Wolfram Paulus, Herbert Vesely, Paul Harather, Fritz Koselka, Wolfgang Gluck, Wilhelm Thiele, Karl Leiter. Excerpt: Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 - 27 March 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian-born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. Wilder is one of only five people who have won Academy Awards as producer, director, and writer for the same film (The Apartment). Wilder became a screenwriter in the late 1920s while living in Berlin. After the rise of Adolf Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He relocated to Hollywood in 1933, and in 1939 he had a hit as a co-writer of the screenplay to the screwball comedy Ninotchka. Wilder established his directorial reputation after helming Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with mystery novelist Raymond Chandler. Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend, about alcoholism. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard. From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made...
