Question: The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black It was produced and directed by Samuel "Billy" Wilder, an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned, more than how many decades?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] Samuel "Billy" Wilder ( ; ] ; June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. With "The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] The Fortune Cookie (alternative UK title: Meet Whiplash Willie) is a 1966 black comedy film starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their first on-screen collaboration. It was produced and directed by Billy Wilder from a script by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond. [END]  
Answer: five
five