Billy Wilder
Title sequences from feature films directed by Billy Wilder (1906 – 2002) available on Blu-ray (19/25).
The titles from the FEDORA (1978) blu-ray (Carlotta Films and Masters of Cinema) are not included; they’re not authentic (titles set in Friz Quadrata instead of Optima).
THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR
(1942)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson, Robert Benchley, Diana Lynn
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
- title sequence
- “The End”
FIVE GRAVES TO CAIRO
(1943)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
- title sequence
- “The End”
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
(1944)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
- Genre:
- Film noir
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- closing credits
- trailer typography
THE LOST WEEKEND
(1945)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- “The End”
Source: the Kino Lorber blu-ray (2021) 1948- title sequence
- “The End”
THE EMPEROR WALTZ
- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Bing Crosby, Joan Fontaine, Roland Culver, Lucile Watson, Richard Haydn
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
Source: the Kino Lorber blu-ray (2019) 1948- title sequence
- “The End”
A FOREIGN AFFAIR
- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell, Peter von Zerneck
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
SUNSET BLVD.
(1950)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
- Genre:
- Film noir
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- closing credits
- trailer typography
ACE IN THE HOLE
(1951)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- closing credits
- trailer title
STALAG 17
(1953)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
SABRINA
(1954)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
- Studio:
- Paramount Pictures
- Country:
- USA
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
(1955) [Blu-ray]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes
- Studio:
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Country:
- USA
- Title design:
- Saul Bass
- Lettering:
- Harold Adler
THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
(1957) [buy]- Starring:
- James Stewart
- Country:
- USA
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON
(1957) [Blu-ray]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn
- Studio:
- Allied Artists Pictures
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- “The End”
- Title design:
- Ray Eames
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
(1957)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
- Studio:
- Edward Small Productions
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- “The End”
SOME LIKE IT HOT
(1959) [Blu-ray]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- “The End”
- trailer typography
- Title design:
- Howard A. Anderson Co.
THE APARTMENT
(1960) [Blu-ray]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- “The End”
- trailer typography
- Title design:
- Howard A. Anderson Co.
ONE, TWO, THREE
(1961)- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin
- Country:
- USA
- title sequence
- “The End”
IRMA LA DOUCE
(1963) [Blu-rayy]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Lou Jacobi, Bruce Yarnell, Herschel Bernardi
- Country:
- USA
- title sequence
THE FORTUNE COOKIE
(1966) [Blu-ray]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
- “The End”
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
(1970) [Blu-ray]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Christopher Lee
- Country:
- USA
- title sequence
- Title design:
- Maurice Binder
AVANTI!
(1972) [buy]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills
- Country:
- USA
- opening credits
THE FRONT PAGE
(1974) [Blu-ray]- Directed by:
- Billy Wilder
- Starring:
- Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Charles Durning
- Country:
- USA
- title sequence
- Title design:
- Wayne Fitzgerald
- Fonts used:
- Grouch
FEDORA
(1978)- Starring:
- William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef
- Studio:
- Bavaria Atelier, Lorimar
- Country:
- USA
BUDDY BUDDY
(1981)- Starring:
- Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Klaus Kinski
- Studio:
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- Country:
- USA
- Title design:
- Burke Mattsson
