Billy Wilder Biography & Movies

BILLY WILDER Date of Birth: June 22, 1906 Originally a reporter in Vienna, Billy Wilder moved to Berlin where in 1929 he broke into filmmaking as a screenwriter. He was a prolific and successful writer, but when Hitler came into power in Germany in 1933, Wilder, who was a Jew, felt it wise to leave. He went to France, where he wrote and directed a film before emigrating to the United States through Mexico. He found out later that during WWII, his mother and stepfather died at the Nazi... See All