In the late, great William Friedkin’s tenacious remake of The Wages of Fear (1953), four criminals truck nitroglycerin across a Central American jungle to stymie an oil field fire. True to Friedkin’s ...

When director William Friedkin died this week, he left a gaping hole in a Hollywood that had been shaped and reshaped by his films, including The Exorcist, The French Connection and To Live and Die in ...

Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, legendary filmmaker behind the 1971 crime thriller The French Connection, and 1973’s The Exorcist, among many others, died Monday in Los Angeles at the age of ...

Friedkin also worked on 1977’s 'Sorcerer' and 1985’s 'To Live and Die in L.A.' Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop culture for more than 15 ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 ...

Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor who was a regular collaborator with William Friedkin and whose other credits include “Putney Swope,” “Flashdance” and “The Karate Kid,” died Sunday at his ...

Legendary director William Friedkin died Monday, leaving an accomplished legacy behind as one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation. Friedkin’s career veered through a variety of genres, and ...