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Auschwitz)<br><b>Mother:</b> (d. Auschwitz)<br><b>Brother:</b> W. Lee Wilder (producer)<br><b>Wife:</b> Judith Coppicus Iribe (m. 22-Dec-1936, div. 1946, one son, one daughter)<br><b>Son:</b> Vincent (twin, b. 1939, d. 1939)<br><b>Daughter:</b> Victoria (twin, b. 1939)<br><b>Girlfriend:</b> <a href="/people/270/000044138/">Hedy Lamarr</a> (actress, dated 1940s)<br><b>Wife:</b> Audrey Young (actress, b. 1922, m. 30-Jun-1949, until his death, d. 2012)<br><p> <a href="/honors/469/000032373/">American Film Institute Life Achievement Award</a> 1986<br> <a href="/honors/109/000048962/">Kennedy Center Honor</a> 1990<br> <a href="/honors/510/000032414/">Oscar for Best Director</a> 1946 for <i>The Lost Weekend</i><br> <a href="/honors/510/000032414/">Oscar for Best Director</a> 1961 for <i>The Apartment</i><br> <a href="/honors/902/000044770/">National Medal of Arts</a> 1993<br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/408/000036300/">Buddy Buddy (11-Dec-1981)</a> <br> <a href="/films/547/000092271/">Fedora (30-May-1978)</a> <br> <a href="/films/465/000033366/">The Front Page (17-Dec-1974)</a> <br> <a href="/films/409/000036301/">Avanti! (17-Dec-1972)</a> <br> <a href="/films/100/000040977/">The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (29-Oct-1970)</a> <br> <a href="/films/439/000034337/">The Fortune Cookie (19-Oct-1966)</a> <br> <a href="/films/445/000063256/">Kiss Me, Stupid (22-Dec-1964)</a> <br> <a href="/films/937/000032841/">Irma la Douce (5-Jun-1963)</a> <br> <a href="/films/563/000040443/">One, Two, Three (15-Dec-1961)</a> <br> <a href="/films/751/000033652/">The Apartment (15-Jun-1960)</a> <br> <a href="/films/586/000032490/">Some Like It Hot (29-Mar-1959)</a> <br> <a href="/films/306/000037195/">Witness for the Prosecution (Dec-1957)</a> <br> <a href="/films/705/000041582/">Love in the Afternoon (30-Jun-1957)</a> <br> <a href="/films/192/000041069/">The Spirit of St. Louis (20-Apr-1957)</a> <br> <a href="/films/584/000032488/">The Seven Year Itch (3-Jun-1955)</a> <br> <a href="/films/153/000038039/">Sabrina (22-Sep-1954)</a> <br> <a href="/films/588/000032492/">Stalag 17 (1-Jul-1953)</a> <br> <a href="/films/875/000061692/">Ace in the Hole (15-Jun-1951)</a> <br> <a href="/films/729/000032633/">Sunset Blvd. (4-Aug-1950)</a> <br> <a href="/films/690/000035585/">A Foreign Affair (7-Jul-1948)</a> <br> <a href="/films/968/000079731/">The Emperor Waltz (30-Apr-1948)</a> <br> <a href="/films/007/000037893/">The Lost Weekend (16-Nov-1945)</a> <br> <a href="/films/594/000040474/">Double Indemnity (6-Sep-1944)</a> <br> <a href="/films/702/000038588/">Five Graves to Cairo (4-May-1943)</a> <br> <a href="/films/987/000037876/">The Major and the Minor (16-Sep-1942)</a> <br> <a href="/films/442/000248695/">Mauvaise graine (1934)</a> <br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24910"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=24910">Billy Wilder</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=24910" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>