biography
pronunciation:
[wiyler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1902–81)
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Mulhouse, NE France (formerly Germany). Invited to America by his mother's cousin Carl Laemmle (1867–1939), the head of Universal Pictures, he worked there on many aspects of film-making before becoming a director of Western shorts and low budget productions. Renowned for his obsessively meticulous approach to composition, performance, and narrative structure, his many successes include These Three (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), The Collector (1965), and Funny Girl (1968). He received Oscars for Mrs Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben Hur (1959). He retired in 1972. He received an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award in 1976. |
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