{"id":2465148,"date":"2026-06-18T10:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2465148"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T10:33:14","slug":"daughter-of-legendary-hollywood-filmmaker-william-wyler-and-her-husband-found-dead-in-parked-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/daughter-of-legendary-hollywood-filmmaker-william-wyler-and-her-husband-found-dead-in-parked-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Daughter of legendary Hollywood filmmaker William Wyler and her husband found dead in parked car"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The daughter of an Oscar-winning Hollywood director has been found dead inside a vehicle parked on the side of a busy highway.<\/p>\n

Judith \u201cJudy\u201d Wyler Sheldon and her husband Wylie Sheldon were found unresponsive in their running Jeep Compass on Interstate 5 in California in the US on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Judy, 84, was the daughter of legendary filmmaker William Wyler, whose classics included Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur and Wuthering Heights.<\/p>\n

California Highway Patrol officers made the grim discovery after coming across the vehicle stopped on the shoulder of the highway.<\/p>\n

Emergency crews rushed to the scene but despite desperate efforts to revive the couple, they were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Authorities said that Judy was behind the wheel when she was found, with Wylie, 86, in the front passenger seat.<\/p>\n

Their causes of death have not yet been released.<\/p>\n

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Camera Icon<\/title><\/svg>Judith \u2018Judy\u2019 Wyler Sheldon<\/span> Credit: Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The deaths came on the same day an extreme heat warning was issued across parts of Northern California, although investigators have not said whether the scorching conditions played a role.<\/p>\n

While her father became one of Hollywood\u2019s most celebrated directors with three Academy Awards, Judy forged her own career in the movie world and was a passionate supporter of silent cinema.<\/p>\n

Friends paid tribute to the couple after the shocking discovery.<\/p>\n

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Camera Icon<\/title><\/svg>Llegendary filmmaker William Wyler with Shirley Maclaine.<\/span> Credit: Supplied<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe are reeling from this news,\u201d San Francisco Silent Film Festival artistic director Anita Monga said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudy and Wylie were very dear to us, supportive and a positive presence at all our events.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.perthnow.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The daughter of an Oscar-winning Hollywood director has been found dead inside a vehicle parked on the side of a busy highway. Judith \u201cJudy\u201d Wyler Sheldon and her husband Wylie Sheldon were found unresponsive in their running Jeep Compass on Interstate 5 in California in the US on Monday afternoon. Judy, 84, was the daughter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2465149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[309899,21741,21912],"class_list":["post-2465148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Daughter-of-legendary-Hollywood-filmmaker-William-Wyler-and-her-husband.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465150,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465148\/revisions\/2465150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}