William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crime thriller film The French Connection (1971), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and the horror film The Exorcist (1973), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Director. Friedkin's other films in the 1970s and 1980s include the drama The Boys in the Band (1970), considered a milestone of queer cinema; the originally deprecated, now lauded thriller Sorcerer (1977); the crime comedy drama The Brink's Job (1978); the controversial thriller Cruising (1980); and the neo-noir thriller To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). Although Friedkin's works suffered an overall commercial and critical decline in the late 1980s, his last three feature films, all based on plays, were positively received by critics: the psychological horror film Bug (2006), the crime film Killer Joe (2011), and the legal drama film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (2023), released two months after his death. He also worked extensively as an opera director from 1998 until his death, and directed various television films and series episodes for television. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Friedkin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. 윌리엄 프리드킨(1935년생, Chicago, Illinois, USA) 는 감독으로, 대표작으로 CSI: 라스베가스, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, 테일즈 프롬 더 크립트가 있으며, 그 외에도 환상특급(1985), 엑소시스트, 프렌치 커넥션, Rebel Highway, 리브 앤 다이, 룰스 오브 인게이지먼트, 헌티드, 소서러, 12인의 노한 사람들, 킬러조, 광란자, 케인호의 반란 등 다양한 작품을 연출했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders에 출연했다. 2024년 Fear and Love: The Story of The Exorcist에 출연했다. 2023년 케인호의 반란 제작에 참여했다.