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• Billy Wilder Dead At Ninety Five
  
  Wilder was one of the last survivors of the socalled Golden Age of Hollywood. His remarkable career in American cinema extended from the mid1930s to 1981 and included such classics as Double Indemnity 1944, The Lost Weekend 1945, Sunset Blvd. 1950, S ...
  http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/28/billy.wilder.obit/

• The Billy Wilders Sophisticated Touch
  
  The profile by M S Mason for The Christian Science Monitor. ...
  http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/30/feat/tv.1.html

• The Billy Wilders Grave
  
  Photo of the grave of director Billy Wilder, at Pierce Bros.Westwood Memorial Park, in Los Angeles, California. ...
  http://seeing-stars.com/ImagePages/BillyWilderGravePhoto.shtml

• A Film Legend Billy Wilder
  
  Oscarwinning filmmaker Billy Wilder, who died, was one of Hollywoods greatest ever directors.In a career spanning six decades, the former refugee from Nazi Germany received 21 Academy Award nominations and won a total of six Oscars.He became the firs ...
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/237938.stm

• The Director Billy Wilder
  
  Bridging the transition between the studio system and the rise of independent producerdirectors, and still active in the New Hollywood era, Billy Wilder was a key player in the American cinema throughout the postwar period. A 30s screenwriter who bec ...
  http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/wilder.html

• The Something Wilder
  
  1906.Samuel Wilder is born to a Jewish family in Galicia, in what used to be the former AustroHungarian empire, now Poland. Mum Eugenia was so impressed by a Buffalo Bill show in her trip to America that she nicknamed him Billie. At 18, Wilder become ...
  http://www.eskimo.com/~noir/directors/wilder/

• Director Billy Wilder
  
  Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the citys largest tabloid. He broke into films as a sc ...
  http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0000697/

• Director Billy Wilder About Film Noir
  
  Billy Wilders career stretches back to the late 1920s, when he collaborated on the scripts for several films made in Germany, including the classic semidocumentary People on Sunday 1929. When Hitler came into power, Wilder fled to France and eventual ...
  http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue10/features/wilder/