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

A tribute to the legendary director, William Friedkin.

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

William Friedkin, the Oscar winning director of two gripping film classics, “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” has died. He was 87. A representative from his office said he died

The filmmaker won multiple Oscars in the 1970s for his work on "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection."

William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, died Monday. He was 87.

A compelling storyteller, he researched The French Connection by shadowing two New York detectives, breaking into apartments on drug busts

, 2023 (Reuters) -William Friedkin, who achieved cinematic immortality by directing the bleak, gritty 1971 drug-smuggling thriller "The French Connection" and the terrifying 1973 demon-possession blockbuster "The Exorcist," died on Monday at the age of 87. He died at his home from heart failure and pneumonia, said a spokesperson for Creative Artists Agency. Friedkin got his start as a director with the mild 1967 musical comedy "Good Times" with the pop duo Sonny a...

He made his name with two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s. But despite some later successes, he never regained his early acclaim.

William Friedkin, who achieved cinematic immortality by directing the bleak, gritty 1971 drug-smuggling thriller The French Connection and the terrifying 1973 demon-possession blockbuster The...