William Wyler
- Date of birth:
- 1902
- Date of death:
- 1981
- Mini Bio:
- William Wyler was a three-time Academy Award-winning motion picture director. In the early 1930s became one of Universal's greatest assets, directing such solid films as The Love Trap, Hell's Heroes, Tom Brown of Culver, and The Good Fairy. He became well-known for his merciless (some would say sadistic) insistence on multiple retakes, resulting in often award-winning and critically acclaimed performances from his actors. After leaving Universal he began a long collaboration with Samuel Goldwyn where he directed such classics as The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Little Foxes (1941), The Westerner (1940), Wuthering Heights (1939), Dead End (1937), These Three (1936) and Dodsworth (1936). Laurence Olivier, whom Wyler directed to two Oscar nominations in two films, credited Wyler with teaching him how to act for the screen.
Movies directed by William Wyler (2 of 2)
