William Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director who helmed such classics as “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection,” died Aug. 7 from heart failure and pneumonia, his family said in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Friedkin was one of those legendary Hollywood characters whose career really did begin in the mailroom. It just wasn’t the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Friedkin, the Oscar winning director who became a top filmmaker in his 30s with the gripping “The French Connection” and the horrifying “The Exorcist” and struggled in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director William Friedkin, pictured in 2017, has died. Had William Friedkin — who passed away last week at age 87 — only directed ...

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 ...

William Friedkin, the maverick film director who helped revolutionize 1970s Hollywood with the electrifying, era-defining classics “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” died Monday, according to ...

Friedkin also worked on 1977’s 'Sorcerer' and 1985’s 'To Live and Die in L.A.' Primo Barol/Anadolu Agency/Getty William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director behind such films as The French Connection ...

William Friedkin, the director who won an Oscar for "The French Connection" and shocked audiences with "The Exorcist," has died. He was 87. His publicist confirmed in a statement to CBS News that ...