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William Friedkin

Actor · 91 credits · 33 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Exorcist (1973)

Frequent collaborators: Steven Spielberg, Sydney Pollack, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter, Caleb Deschanel

Movies (57 total, ranked by score)

  1. North by Northwest: One for the Ages

    2009 · ★ 6.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    31

  2. Narc: The Friedkin Connection

    2003

    Documentary

    32

  3. Filming “The Hunted”

    2003

    Documentary

    33

  4. Breaking Barriers: The Sound of Hitchcock

    2008

    Documentary

    34

  5. Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

    1998 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    35

  6. Miller's Tale

    2011 · ★ 7.1 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    36

  7. Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

    2007 · ★ 6.2 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    37

  8. Making the Boys

    2011 · ★ 4.7 (10 votes)

    Documentary

    38

  9. Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock

    2009

    Documentary

    39

  10. Fear in the Dark

    1991 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    40

  11. Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

    1986 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, Music, TV Movie

    41

  12. Godard Made in USA

    2010

    Documentary

    42

  13. The Cutting Edge

    2003

    Documentary

    43

  14. Pursuing “The Hunted”

    2003

    Documentary

    44

  15. Henri Langlois vu par...

    2014 · ★ 4.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    45

  16. Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

    2007 · ★ 6.0 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    46

  17. A Little Solitaire

    2004

    Documentary

    47

  18. Hollywood Halloween

    1997 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    48

  19. Raising Hell: Filming the Exorcist

    2010 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    49

  20. Sorcerers: A Conversation with William Friedkin and Nicolas Winding Refn

    2015 · ★ 4.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    50

  21. The Devil and Father Amorth

    2018 · ★ 5.1 (105 votes)

    Documentary, Horror

    51

  22. Shadows of Suspense

    2006

    Documentary

    52

  23. Stringman: The Jack Nitzsche Story

    2018

    53

  24. Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen

    2007

    Documentary

    54

  25. Return to the Genre

    2016

    Documentary

    55

  26. The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons

    2022

    Documentary

    56

  27. Oscars, Actors and The Exorcist

    1974

    Documentary

    57

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.