Reuters/Eric GaillardOscar-winning director William Friedkin, who carved his place into film history with classics such as The French Connection and The Exorcist, died Monday in Los Angeles, his wife, the former studio head Sherry Lansing, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. The 87-year-old’s cause of death was not disclosed.Friedkin rose to prominence in the 1970s alongside a cohort of inventive and risk-seeking directors like Peter Bogdanovich, Roman Polanski, and Francis Ford Coppola, using
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