William Wyler was one of classic Hollywood’s greatest directors of actors — and also, according to the performers he worked with, one of its biggest pains in the neck.

In 2018, Erik Nelson not only released "The Cold Blue" using only William Wyler's outtakes, but restored the original "Memphis Belle" movie, removing all the scratches and imperfections.

William Wyler is the most decorated director in the history of the Academy Awards (an unprecedented 12 Oscar nominations, and three wins) and directed more Oscar-winning actors than anyone else. Wyler ...

William Wyler was the invisible director. He felt the director’s hand shouldn’t be evident in a movie. “It’s 80% script and 20% you get great actors,” he once said.

Instead, he made all kinds of films in all kinds of styles, from the deep- focus languor of "The Little Foxes" to the epic splendor of "Ben-Hur" to the grainy realism of "Counsellor-at-Law." If ...

After initially breaking the record for directing the most Oscar-winning performances in 1939 and then being temporarily displaced by Victor Fleming the following year, William Wyler has ...