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W. Lee Wilder
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Director, Producer Born: 1904 Biography:The brother of director "Billy Wilder", Austrian-born "W. Lee Wilder" has worked in a distinctly lower-budget, less-visible manner. After abandoning an industrial career in Europe, Wilder came to New York as the head of William Wilder Productions, and produced "The Great Flamarion" (1945), directed by "Anthony Mann" and starring "Erich Von Stroheim" in a drama about betrayal under the big top. Wilder received his first directing credit in 1946 as director of Republic's "The Glass Alibi", a crime drama about a confidence man who marries a terminally ill woman to secure an alibi, only to learn that she is recovering. Two years later, he produced and directed the thriller "Vicious Circle" (1948), a drama about Jewish farmers in Hungary being framed for murder. But his best film--and his best known movie, at least among horror movie buffs--is easily "Killers from Space" (1953), a bizarre and compelling... Full Biography
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