Born July 1, 1902· Mülhausen, Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire [now Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France]
† Died July 27, 1981
58Filmography★ 7.3Average rating
Emerging from a Jewish family in Mulhouse, then part of the German Empire, Wyler crossed the Atlantic in 1921 after his cousin Carl Laemmle offered him a foothold at Universal Studios. He rose from stagehand to the studio’s youngest director by 1925, pioneering Universal’s first fully location-shot sound picture, Hell’s Heroes, in 1929. Over five decades he became celebrated for turning literary c…
