William Wyler

Japanese: ワイラー - わいらー(英語表記)William Wyler
William Wyler

American film director. Born in Mulhouse, France (then part of Germany), he was educated in Lausanne and Paris. He moved to the United States at the age of 20 and entered the film industry, becoming a director in 1925. After making many two-reel westerns, he moved to feature films and soon distinguished himself. He achieved great success with his film adaptations of novels and stage plays, such as Mrs. Peacock (1936), Wuthering Heights (1939), and The False Garden (1941), and won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director for his films Mrs. Miniver (1942) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), which are based on family dramas depicting the morale of the war and the reintegration of returning soldiers into society, respectively. In many of these films, he employed the renowned cinematographer Gregg Toland (1904-1948), and by utilizing the clear, deep image, he established a new film aesthetic characterized by dense spatial processing, within-shot direction. He went on to show his extraordinary talent in a variety of genres, including the romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953), the western The Big Wild West (1958), the historical Ben-Hur (1959, winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director), the thriller The Collector (1965), and the musical Funny Girl (1968), but he was most expressive in the direction of theatrical settings, such as Detective Story (1951), Desperate Fugitive (1955), and The Two Men (1961).

[Takaharu Miyamoto]

Documents List of Director's Works

Lazy Lightning (1926)
The Stolen Ranch (1926)
New Era Blazing Days (1927)
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928)
The Shakedown (1929)
The Love Trap (1929)
Hell's Heroes (1929)
The Storm (1930)
A House Divided (1931)
Tom Brown of Culver (1932)
Her First Mate (1932)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
Glamour (1934)
The Good Fairy (1935)
These Three (1936)
Mrs. Peacock Dodsworth (1936)
Come and Get It (1936)
Dead End (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
The Westerner (1940)
Moonlight Girl: The Letter (1940)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Heiress (1949)
Detective Story (1951)
Carrie (1951)
Roman Holiday (1953)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The Big Country (1958)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Children's Hour (1961)
The Collector (1965)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
Funny Girl (1968)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1969)

[References] | Ben-Hur | Roman Holiday | The Best Years of Our Lives

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

アメリカの映画監督。フランスのミュルーズ(当時ドイツ領)に生まれ、ローザンヌとパリで教育を受ける。20歳で渡米して映画界に入り、1925年監督となる。二巻ものの西部劇を多く撮ったあと長編に移り、まもなく頭角を現す。『孔雀(くじゃく)夫人』(1936)、『嵐(あらし)が丘』(1939)、『偽りの花園』(1941)といった小説や舞台劇の映画化にみごとな成果をあげ、家庭ドラマを基調にそれぞれ戦意高揚、帰還兵の社会復帰を描いた『ミニヴァー夫人』(1942)、『我等(われら)の生涯の最良の年』(1946)では、アカデミー作品賞・監督賞を受賞。これらの多くで名撮影家グレッグ・トーランドGregg Toland(1904―1948)を起用、その奥行の深い明晰(めいせき)な画面を利用して、密度の高い空間処理を特徴とする、ショット内演出の新しい映画美学を打ち立てた。その後もロマンチック・コメディ『ローマの休日』(1953)、西部劇『大いなる西部』(1958)、歴史もの『ベン・ハー』(1959。アカデミー作品賞・監督賞受賞)、スリラー『コレクター』(1965)、ミュージカル『ファニー・ガール』(1968)など多彩なジャンルに非凡な力量を示したが、『探偵物語』(1951)、『必死の逃亡者』(1955)、『噂(うわさ)の二人』(1961)といった舞台的場面設定の演出にもっとも表現力に富んだ面をみせた。

[宮本高晴]

資料 監督作品一覧

稲妻の男 Lazy Lightning(1926)
戦友のために The Stolen Ranch(1926)
新時代 Blazing Days(1927)
君を尋ねて三千里 Anybody Here Seen Kelly?(1928)
仮の塒(ねぐら)(熱血阿修羅王) The Shakedown(1929)
恋のからくり The Love Trap(1929)
砂漠の生霊 Hell's Heroes(1929)
嵐 The Storm(1930)
北海の漁火 A House Divided(1931)
鉄血士官校 Tom Brown of Culver(1932)
やりくり宝船 Her First Mate(1932)
巨人登場 Counsellor at Law(1933)
白蛾(はくが) Glamour(1934)
お人好しの仙女 The Good Fairy(1935)
この三人 These Three(1936)
孔雀夫人 Dodsworth(1936)
大自然の凱歌(がいか) Come and Get It(1936)
デッドエンド Dead End(1937)
黒蘭の女 Jezebel(1938)
嵐ヶ丘 Wuthering Heights(1939)
西部の男 The Westerner(1940)
月光の女 The Letter(1940)
偽りの花園 The Little Foxes(1941)
ミニヴァー夫人 Mrs. Miniver(1942)
メンフィス・ベル The Memphis Belle : A Story of a Flying Fortress(1944)
我等の生涯の最良の年 The Best Years of Our Lives(1946)
女相続人 The Heiress(1949)
探偵物語 Detective Story(1951)
黄昏 Carrie(1951)
ローマの休日 Roman Holiday(1953)
必死の逃亡者 The Desperate Hours(1955)
友情ある説得 Friendly Persuasion(1956)
大いなる西部 The Big Country(1958)
ベン・ハー Ben-Hur(1959)
噂の二人 The Children's Hour(1961)
コレクター The Collector(1965)
おしゃれ泥棒 How to Steal a Million(1966)
ファニー・ガール Funny Girl(1968)
L・B・ジョーンズの解放 The Liberation of L. B. Jones(1969)

[参照項目] | ベン・ハー | ローマの休日 | 我等の生涯の最良の年

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