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William Friedkin, Harold Pinter und Insider-Informationen über eine Katastrophe
Es wird Ihnen schwer fallen, einen besseren Gesprächspartner als den Schauspieler Nick Ullett zu finden. Heutzutage findet man den erfahrenen Künstler oben im Matrix Theatre, wo er kleine Gruppen von Theaterbesuchern mit einem lebhaften Bericht über den lokalen Backstage-Wahnsinn verwöhnt.
In „The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe“ erzählt Ullett, ein in Großbritannien geborener Schauspieler, der scherzt, er sei so alt, dass er tatsächlich mit dem Boot nach Amerika gekommen sei, über die verlassene Wiederaufnahme von Harold Pinters „The Birthday Party“
3 classic William Friedkin movies you should watch right now
Via Variety, film director William Friedkin died on Monday, August 7 from heart failure and pneumonia three weeks shy of his 88th birthday. Friedkin was best known for helming The Exorcist, a 1973 film that is widely recognized as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. But that was just one of the 19 films and eight documentaries that Friedkin made over his 61-year career in Hollywood. Friedkin had some occasional misses, but when he was on his
William Friedkin, Famed Director Of ‘The French Connection,’ ‘The Exorcist,’ Dies At 87
Famed film director William Friedkin, who won an Oscar for “The French Connection” and directed such exceptional films as “The Exorcist,” “Rules of Engagement,” and “Sorcerer,” has died at the age of 87.
Born in Chicago in 1935, Friedkin’s parents were Jewish emigrants from Ukraine who fled with his grandparents after a violent anti-Semitic pogrom in 1903. After graduating from high school at 16 (Friedkin admitted he was not a good student), he started working in the mail room at
Nine Provocative William Friedkin Movies to Stream
An iconoclast even among his New Hollywood peers coming up in the 1970s, the director William Friedkin built a reputation for grimy, high-impact thrillers and social dramas that sought to get a rise out of audiences and frequently drew the controversy they courted.
Friedkin, who died Monday at 87, found early success in Hollywood with the one-two punch of “The French Connection” in 1971 and “The Exorcist” in 1973, but his fortunes shifted in the years that followed, which led
William Friedkin, Oscar-winning The Exorcist director, dies before final film’s premiere | Films | Entertainment
William Friedkin, legendary director of The Exorcist, The French Connection and more, has died at the age of 87.
He died on Monday in Los Angeles, which has been confirmed by Chapman University dean Stephen Galloway via Variety.
Galloway is a close friend of Friedkin’s surviving wife Sherry Lansing, 79.
Friedkin unfortunately passed away before his next project, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, was scheduled to premiere next month.
The famed director rose to prominence in the 1970s as part of
William Friedkin, Director of ‘French Connection’ and ‘Exorcist,’ Dies at 87
William Friedkin, a filmmaker whose gritty, visceral style and fascination with characters on the edge helped make “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s, died on Monday at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. He was 87.
The cause was heart failure and pneumonia, said his wife, Sherry Lansing, the former head of Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. Mr. Friedkin recently directed “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” a movie, yet