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Article: Billy Wilder, filmmaker.(Editorials)(His name linked to many movie classics)(Editorial)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2002
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Byline: The Register-Guard
In the world of entertainment, an old axiom holds that death comes in threes. The axiom was reinforced this week with the deaths of Milton Berle, Dudley Moore and Billy Wilder.
Of the three, the contributions to the American fabric of Wilder, who died late Wednesday at the age of 95, will be the most lasting.
An immigrant from Austria, Wilder fled Hitler's Germany and arrived in Hollywood in 1934. He knew very little English, but partnered with American writers to launch a career that would eventually win him 21 Oscar nominations and six Oscars.
He was the first of only two people to win three Academy Awards - ...