William Friedkin
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
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Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a
merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes
in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more
than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young
Will became infatuated with Orson Welles
after seeing Citizen Kane (1941). He
went to work for WGN TV immediately after graduating from high school
where he started making documentaries, one of which won the Golden Gate
Award at the 1962 San Francisco film festival. In 1965, he moved to
Hollywood and immediately started directing TV shows, including an
episode of the
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962);
Hitchcock infamously chastised him for not wearing a tie.
