William Friedkin

William Friedkin was born on Aug 29, 1935 in USA. William Friedkin's big-screen debut came with Good Times directed by William Friedkin in 1967. William Friedkin is known for 12 Angry Men directed by William Friedkin, Courtney B. Vance stars as Foreman and Ossie Davis as Juror #2. William Friedkin has got 21 awards and 16 nominations so far. The most recent award William Friedkin achieved is Oldenburg Film Festival. The upcoming new movie William Friedkin plays is The Devil and Father Amorth which will be released on Apr 20, 2018.

Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with Orson Welles after seeing Citizen Kane (1941). He went to work for WGN TV immediately after graduating from high school where he started making documentaries, one of which won the Golden Gate Award at the 1962 San Francisco film festival. In 1965, he moved to Hollywood and immediately started directing TV shows, including an episode of the The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); Hitchcock infamously chastised him for not wearing a tie.