'He had a big wonderful, life. There was no dream unfulfilled'
Oscar-winning film director William Friedkin has died aged 87 his family have announced. Mr Friedkin, whose work includes the classic horror film The Exorcist and crime thriller The French Connection - died in Los Angeles today . No cause of death has yet been confirmed.
He was said to have got the job for the iconic horror - an adaptation of Blatty’s best-selling novel - about a 12-year-old girl possessed by the devil, after a number of other filmmakers such as Mike Nichols and Stanley Kubrick turned it down reports the Mirror. In the noughties, Friedkin was part of the team behind the 2003 thriller The Hunted, which starred Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro. He later directed Bug in 2007, which starred Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr.
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