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William Friedkin was inspired to direct Cruising after finding out someone he worked with on The Exorcist was a serial killer

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Friedkin, who has died aged 87, had two huge early successes during the New Hollywood era, but many of his later films reveal a talent whose ability to shock and surprise remained undimmed.

The Exorcist possessed the box office not once, but twice, and the William Friedkin-directed film made horror mainstream in a way no film has done since.

Released in 1971, the late William Friedkin’s Academy-award winning masterpiece has lost none of its power to make us squirm.

William Friedkin, the generation-defining director who brought a visceral realism to 1970s hits “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist” and was quickly anointed one of Hollywood’s top directors when he was only in his 30s, has died. He was 87. Friedkin, who won the best director Oscar for “The French Connection,” died Monday in Los…

William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director of two gripping film classics, “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” has died at age 87.

Friedkin helmed legendary ’70s films ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘The French Connection’