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MOSCOW, August 7 American film director William Friedkin, best known for his films The French Connection and The Exorcist, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 87, Hollywood reports. Reporter, citing the director's wife.
«William Friedkin, Academy Award-winning director … died on Monday. He was 87,» the publication said.
Friedkin was part of a brilliant generation of directors who revolutionized cinema with their provocative and individualistic films, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
For the 1971 film The French Connection, Friedkin won the Academy Award for Best Director. His film The Exorcist, released in 1973, brought in $428 million at the box office on a budget of $12 million and was nominated for ten Oscars, winning two statuettes. He has also made films such as To Live and Die in L.A., Killer Joe, The Witch Doctor and many more. media-type=»photo» data-crop-ratio=»0.55125″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»331″ data-source-sid=»not_rian_photo» title=»Still from The Wizard (Sorcerer) by William Friedkin» class=»lazyload» width=»1920″ height=»1058″ decoding=»async» />