Billy Wilder

  • Portraits (15)

  • Sabrina (1954) (3)

  • Love in the Afternoon (1957) (1)

  • The Apartment (1960) (1)

  • The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) (2)

  • Buddy Buddy (1981) (1)

  • Stills (4)

Highlighted works

The most caustic of European émigré directors, Wilder explored the movie industry and the delusions of stardom in Hollywood’s great poison pen letter to itself.

On the run from Chicago mobsters, two musicians don drag to join an all-girl jazz band fronted by Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe) in Billy Wilder’s hugely popular comedy.

In Wilder’s Oscar-winning comedy, Jack Lemmon plays an office worker who lends his apartment to adulterous superiors in order to get ahead.

An insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) is seduced into murder and fraud in Billy Wilder’s classic dark thriller, adapted from the novel by James M. Cain.

Filmography

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