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William Wyler
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Director, Producer Born: July 1, 1902 in Mulhouse, Germany Death: July 27, 1981 in Beverly Hills, CA Biography:The son of a prosperous Swiss dry goods merchant, "William Wyler" was studying the violin in Paris when he met Universal Pictures executive Carl Laemmle, a distant cousin of his mother, in 1922. Another version of this fateful meeting claims that Wyler made the acquaintance of one of Laemmle's many European relatives; whatever the case, the 20-year-old Wyler was invited to America to work in Universal's publicity department, writing publicity for the studio's foreign releases. He worked his way up to assistant director at Universal, finally graduating to director for the two-reel Western "Crook Buster" (1925). This was followed by several feature-length sagebrushers, then by his first non-Western effort, "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" (1927). Universal's slapdash production methods and abbreviated schedules convinced Wyler that if he ever graduated to A-pictures, he would take his own sweet time making... Full Biography
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