LAHORE MIRROR — Renowned filmmaker William Friedkin, celebrated for his extraordinary contributions to cinema with movies like the Academy Award-winning The French Connection and the groundbreaking The Exorcist, passed away on Monday at the age of 87 in Los Angeles.
The news of his death was confirmed by Stephen Galloway, the dean of Chapman University and a close friend of Friedkin’s wife, Sherry Lansing.
The Oscar-winning director’s final directorial work, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, featuring Kiefer Sutherland, is scheduled to premiere at the esteemed Venice Film Festival.
During the 1970s, Friedkin emerged as one of the leading figures of a bold and innovative generation of filmmakers, alongside Peter Bogdanovich, Francis Ford Coppola, and Hal Ashby.
