Billy Wilder is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Editor and Additional Writing American born on 22 june 1906 at Sucha Beskidzka (Pologne)
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder participated to
73 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
14 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Scriptwriter
, 2h7
Directed by Sydney PollackOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Harrison Ford,
Julia Ormond,
Greg Kinnear,
Nancy Marchand,
Fanny Ardant,
Richard CrennaRoles Original Film Writer
Rating62%
Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David is a playboy, constantly falling in love, yet he has never noticed Sabrina, much to her dismay.Director
, 2h27
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicals,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Jack Lemmon,
Shirley MacLaine,
Lou Jacobi,
Bruce Yarnell,
Grace Lee Whitney,
Joan ShawleeRating73%
Irma la Douce ["Irma the Sweet"] tells the story of Nestor Patou (Jack Lemmon), an honest cop, who after being transferred from the park Bois de Boulogne to a more urban neighborhood in Paris, finds a street full of prostitutes working at the Hotel Casanova and proceeds to raid the place. The police inspector, who is Nestor's superior, and the other policemen, have been aware of the prostitution, but tolerate it in exchange for bribes. The inspector, a client of the prostitutes himself, fires Nestor, who is accidentally framed for bribery., 2h1
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Mafia films,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Rail transport films,
Musical films,
Gangster films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Marilyn Monroe,
Tony Curtis,
Jack Lemmon,
George Raft,
Joe E. Brown,
Pat O'BrienRating81%
It is February 1929 in the city of Chicago, Joe (Tony Curtis) is an irresponsible jazz saxophone player, gambler and ladies' man; his friend Jerry (Jack Lemmon) is a sensible jazz double-bass player. They accidentally witness the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. When the gangsters, led by "Spats" Colombo (George Raft), spot them, the two run for their lives. Penniless and in a mad rush to get out of town, the two musicians take a job with Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee) and her Society Syncopators, an all-female band headed to Miami. Disguised as women and renaming themselves Josephine and Daphne, they board a train with the band and their male manager, Bienstock. Before they board the train, Joe and Jerry notice Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), the band's vocalist and ukulele player., 2h5
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Films about the labor movement,
Musical filmsActors Jack Lemmon,
Shirley MacLaine,
Fred MacMurray,
Ray Walston,
David Lewis,
Jack KruschenRating82%
Calvin Clifford (C. C.) "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) is a lonely office drudge at a national insurance corporation in a high-rise building in New York City. In order to climb the corporate ladder, Bud allows four company managers, who reinforce their position over him by regularly calling him "Buddy Boy", to take turns borrowing his Upper West Side apartment for their various extramarital liaisons, which are so noisy that his neighbors assume that he is bringing home different women every night., 1h41
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about writers,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Ray Milland,
Jane Wyman,
Howard Da Silva,
Phillip Terry,
Doris Dowling,
Frank FaylenRating78%
Thursday - An alcoholic New York writer, Don Birnam, is packing for a weekend vacation with his brother Wick, who is trying to discourage his drinking. When Don’s girlfriend Helen comes to see them off, she mentions in passing that she has two tickets for a concert, to which Don urges Wick to accompany her. Don heads for Nat’s Bar, deliberately missing his train, and then sneaks back into the flat to drink some cheap whisky he has bought, avoiding Helen who is worried about him being left alone., 1h53
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Humphrey Bogart,
Audrey Hepburn,
William Holden,
Walter Hampden,
Martha Hyer,
John WilliamsRating75%
Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and she has been in love with David Larrabee (William Holden) all her life. David is an oft-married, idle playboy, crazy for women, who has never noticed Sabrina, much to her and the household staff's dismay. , 2h
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Military humor in film,
Prison films,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Évasion,
Films based on playsActors William Holden,
Don Taylor,
Otto Preminger,
Sig Ruman,
Robert Strauss,
Peter GravesRating79%
Stalag 17 begins on "the longest night of the year" in 1944 in a Luftwaffe prisoner-of-war camp somewhere along the Danube River. The story is narrated by Clarence Harvey "Cookie" Cook (Gil Stratton). The camp holds Poles, Czechs, Russian females and, in the American compound, 640 sergeants from bomber crews, gunners, radiomen, and flight engineers., 2h5
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
RomanceThemes PolitiqueActors Jack Lemmon,
Walter Matthau,
Cliff Osmond,
Lurene Tuttle,
Les Tremayne,
Harry HolcombeRating71%
CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) gets injured when football player Luther "Boom Boom" Jackson (Ron Rich) runs into him while he is covering a Browns game at Cleveland Stadium. Harry's injuries are minor, but his conniving lawyer brother-in-law William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich (Walter Matthau) convinces him to pretend that his leg and hand have been partially paralyzed. This way, they can receive a huge indemnity from the insurance company. Harry reluctantly goes along with the scheme because he is still in love with his ex-wife, Sandy (Judi West), and it might win her back. The insurance company suspects that the paralysis is a fake one, so a cat-and-mouse game starts between its investigator, Chester Purkey (Cliff Osmond), and the shyster Willie. Boom Boom takes very good care of Harry, who starts having second thoughts as he witnesses guilt taking its toll on Boom Boom. As he also sees that Sandy is back by his side strictly out of greed, Harry decides to reveal the truth, thereby ruining Willie's get-rich plans., 1h50
Directed by Billy Wilder,
Charles C. Coleman,
Gerd OswaldOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Noir,
RomanceThemes Films about films,
Films about writers,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about television,
Mise en scène d'un scénariste,
Films about psychiatryActors William Holden,
Gloria Swanson,
Erich von Stroheim,
Nancy Olson,
Robert Emmett O'Connor,
Fred ClarkRating83%
At a Sunset Boulevard mansion, the body of Joe Gillis floats in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death., 1h45
Directed by Billy Wilder,
Charles BrackettOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about animals,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about dogs,
Musical filmsActors Bing Crosby,
Joan Fontaine,
Roland Culver,
Lucile Watson,
Richard Haydn,
Harold VermilyeaRating59%
At the turn of the twentieth century, traveling salesman Virgil Smith (Bing Crosby) journeys to Vienna, Austria hoping to sell a gramophone to Emperor Franz Joseph, whose purchase of the recent American invention could spur its popularity with the Austrian people. At the same time, Countess Johanna Augusta Franziska von Stoltzenberg-Stolzenberg (Joan Fontaine) and her father, Baron Holenia, are celebrating the fact their black poodle Scheherezade has been selected to mate with the emperor's poodle. As they depart from the palace, they meet Virgil and his white fox terrier Buttons, whose scuffle with Scheherezade leads to a discussion about class distinctions.Scriptwriter
, 1h50
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch,
John WatersOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Political films,
Heist films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Greta Garbo,
Melvyn Douglas,
Bela Lugosi,
Ina Claire,
Sig Ruman,
Felix BressartRating77%
Three Russians, Iranov (Sig Ruman), Buljanov (Felix Bressart), and Kopalsky (Alexander Granach), are in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian Revolution of 1917. Upon arrival, they meet Count Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas), on a mission from the Russian Grand Duchess Swana (Ina Claire), who wants to retrieve her jewelry before it is sold. He corrupts them and talks them into staying in Paris. The Soviet Union then sends Nina Ivanovna "Ninotchka" Yakushova (Greta Garbo), a special envoy whose goal is to go through with the jewelry sale and bring back the three men. Rigid and stern at first, she slowly becomes seduced by the West and the Count, who falls in love with her.Director
, 1h36
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
ThrillerThemes Films set in Africa,
Spy films,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films based on plays,
Le désert,
Guerre du désertActors Franchot Tone,
Anne Baxter,
Akim Tamiroff,
Erich von Stroheim,
Peter van Eyck,
Fortunio BonanovaRating72%
Corporal John Bramble (Franchot Tone) is the sole survivor of a British tank crew after a major battle with Erwin Rommel's victorious Afrika Korps. Delirious, he stumbles across the North African desert into the Empress of Britain, a small, isolated hotel owned by Farid (Akim Tamiroff). The staff consists of just Frenchwoman Mouche (Anne Baxter), as the cook has fled and the waiter Davos was killed the night before by German bombing., 1h56
Directed by Billy Wilder,
Charles C. Coleman,
Gerd OswaldOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors Jean Arthur,
Marlene Dietrich,
John Lund,
Millard Mitchell,
Stanley Prager,
William MurphyRating72%
In 1947, a United States congressional committee which includes prim Phoebe Frost of Iowa (Jean Arthur) arrives in post-World War II Berlin to visit the American troops stationed there. Phoebe hears rumors that cabaret torch singer Erika von Schlütow (Marlene Dietrich), suspected of being the former mistress of either Hermann Göring or Joseph Goebbels, is being protected by an unidentified American officer. She enlists Captain John Pringle (John Lund) to assist in her investigation, unaware he is Erika's current lover.Scriptwriter
, 1h49
Directed by Henry KosterOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Christmas films,
Films about religion,
Films about angelsActors Cary Grant,
Loretta Young,
David Niven,
Monty Woolley,
James Gleason,
Gladys CooperRoles Writer
Rating75%
Bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven), troubled with funding the building of a new cathedral, prays for divine guidance. His plea is seemingly answered by a suave angel named Dudley (Cary Grant), who reveals his identity only to the clergyman.