William Friedkin's 1971 action thriller features a famous chase scene that has gone down as one of the best in cinema, but filming the scene was quite risky. Friedkin's The French Connection opened to ...

For business owners, Friedkin’s film has much to teach about both the value of perseverance and the danger of taking it too far.

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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 following decades ...

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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 ...

Had William Friedkin — who passed away last week at age 87 — only directed “The French Connection” and “The Exorcist,” he’d be in the Filmmaker Hall of Fame. Both are classics in the sense that they ...

LOS ANGELES -- William Friedkin, the filmmaker behind 1973's adaptation of novelist William Peter Blatty's horror novel "The Exorcist," has died at age 87. Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College of ...