OS DIRETORES [FRA]

1. Claude Accursi

Claude Accursi was born on May 28, 1920 in Paris, France. Claude was a writer and director, known for Dada au coeur (1974), Ça c'est du cinéma (1951) and Theodora, Slave Empress (1954). Claude died on April 16, 1988 in Toulouse, France.

2. Marcel Achard

Spartacus

French playwright, screenwriter, and actor. born Marcel-Auguste Ferréol in Sainte-Foylès-Lyon (Rhône) on July 5, 1899. The circumstances of his birth are both uncertain and unusual. At one point, Achard stated as fact that ""I was born thanks to a special authorization from the Pope and the ...

3. Henri Aisner

Director | Les copains du dimanche

Henri Aisner was born on May 21, 1911 in Paris. He was an assistant director and director, known for Les copains du dimanche (1958), La liberté surveillée (1958) and Le mystère de la chambre jaune (1949). He died on July 20, 1991 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

4. Yves Allégret

Director | Les orgueilleux

Yves Allégret was born on October 13, 1905 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Proud and the Beautiful (1953), La meilleure part (1955) and Dédée d'Anvers (1948). He was married to Michèle Cordoue, Simone Signoret and Renée ...

5. Alexandre Astruc

Director | Les mauvaises rencontres

Born in Paris on July 13th 1923, Alexandre Astruc is the son of a couple of journalists. Very good at school, he attended a preparatory school for Polytechnique but finally became both a law and an arts graduate. First a literary critic, he soon specialized as a film critic and worked for various ...

6. Jacqueline Audry

Director | Olivia

At the time when women directors make more and more their presence felt on the French scene, the importance of Jacqueline Audry cannot be overstated. All today's daring Metteuses En Scene are certainly her psychic daughters as they are Agnès Varda's. Audry, born in 1908, began to direct long before...

7. Claude Autant-Lara

Director | Le diable au corps

Claude Autant-Lara was born on August 5, 1901 in Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France. He was a director and writer, known for Devil in the Flesh (1947), The Crossing of Paris (1956) and The Red and the Black (1954). He was married to Ghislaine Autant-Lara. He died on February 5, 2000 in Antibes, ...

8. Jacques Baratier

Director | Goha

Jacques Baratier was born on March 8, 1918 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. He was a director and writer, known for Goha (1958), La poupée (1962) and Sweet and Sour (1963). He was married to Néna Baratier. He died on November 27, 2009 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

9. Raymond Bardonnet

Writer | Ça c'est du cinéma

Raymond Bardonnet is known for Ça c'est du cinéma (1951) and Paris Music Hall (1957).

10. Jacques Becker

Writer | Le trou

His interest in films was stimulated by a meeting with King Vidor, who offered him employment in the US as actor and assistant director. However, he remained in France and became assistant to Jean Renoir, a friend of the family, during that director's peak period (1932-39). In 1934 he ventured ...

11. Raymond Bernard

Director | Anne-Marie

Raymond Bernard was born on October 10, 1891 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Anne-Marie (1936), Adieu... Chérie (1946) and La maison vide (1921). He was married to Jeanne Salley. He died on December 11, 1977 in Paris, France.

12. Simone Berriau

Actress | La tendre ennemie

Simone Berriau was born on July 21, 1896 in Touques, Calvados, France. She was an actress and producer, known for La tendre ennemie (1936), Soyez les bienvenus (1942) and À nous deux, madame la vie (1937). She was married to Yves Mirande. She died on February 26, 1984 in Paris, France.

13. André Berthomieu

Director | Belle mentalité

André Berthomieu was born on February 16, 1903 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. He was a director and writer, known for Belle mentalité (1953), Préméditation (1960) and Pas si bête (1946). He died on April 10, 1960 in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, Oise, ...

14. Pierre Billon

Director | L'homme au chapeau rond

Pierre Billon was born on February 7, 1901 in Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort, Gard, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Eternal Husband (1946), L'inévitable M. Dubois (1943) and Le soleil a toujours raison (1943). He died on August 31, 1981 in Paris, France.

15. Michel Boisrond

Director | Faibles femmes

Michel Boisrond was born on October 9, 1921 in Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, Eure-et-Loir, France. He was a director and assistant director, known for Three Murderesses (1959), The Samurai (1967) and Naughty Girl (1956). He was married to Annette Wademant, Marie-Christine Barrault and Francine Bernard....

16. Bernard Borderie

Director | Fortune carrée

Bernard Borderie was born on June 10, 1924 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Fortune carrée (1955), Your Turn, Darling (1963) and Dishonorable Discharge (1957). He died on May 28, 1978 in Paris, France.

17. Jean Boyer

Soundtrack | Chocolat

Jean Boyer was born on June 26, 1901 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Chocolat (2000), Circonstances atténuantes (1939) and Un mauvais garçon (1936). He was married to Jeanne Dastor. He died on March 10, 1965 in Paris, France.

18. Charles Brabant

Director | La p... respectueuse

Charles Brabant was born on July 6, 1920 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Respectful Whore (1952), Zoé (1954) and Les naufrageurs (1959). He died on November 30, 2006 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

19. Robert Bresson

Writer | Au hasard Balthazar

Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The ...

20. Hervé Bromberger

Director | Mort, où est ta victoire?

Hervé Bromberger was born on November 10, 1918 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a director and writer, known for Mort, où est ta victoire? (1964), Wild Fruit (1954) and Paris Vice Squad (1951). He died on November 23, 1993 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France.

21. Marcel Camus

Director | Orfeu Negro

The work of Marcel Camus is characterized by a lyricism which, although central to his fine films of the 1950s and 60s - Fugitive in Saigon (1957), Black Orpheus (1959) and Love in the Night (1968) - later deteriorated into superficial sentimentality. Camus was a professor of painting and sculpture...

22. Maurice de Canonge

Director | L'empreinte rouge

Maurice de Canonge was born on March 18, 1894 in Toulon, Var, France. He was an actor and director, known for L'empreinte rouge (1937), Boum sur Paris (1953) and Inspecteur Grey (1936). He died on December 29, 1978 in Ballancourt-sur-Essonne, Essonne, France.

23. Norbert Carbonnaux

Writer | Le temps des oeufs durs

Norbert Carbonnaux was born on March 28, 1918 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France. He was a writer and director, known for Le temps des oeufs durs (1958), Slightly Ahead (1956) and Les corsaires du Bois de Boulogne (1954). He died on November 6, 1997 in Paris, ...

24. Claude Cariven

Writer | L'amour n'est pas un péché

Claude Cariven is known for Love Is Not a Sin (1952), Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré (1952) and Le père Serge (1945).

25. Marcel Carné

Director | Le quai des brumes

Marcel Carné, the son of a cabinet maker, entered the movies as the assistant of Jacques Feyder. At the age of 25 he directed his first movie Jenny (1936). Colaborating with the writer Jacques Prévert, the decorator Alexandre Trauner, the musician and composer Maurice Jaubert and the actor Jean ...

26. André Cayatte

Writer | Justice est faite

André Cayatte (b.1909 in Carcassonne, Aude, France) was a lawyer turned novelist and journalist, then screenwriter in 1938, after which he became a film director in 1942. He was known in France from the 1940s to the 1970s for uncompromising films examining the complex ethical and political ...

27. Claude Chabrol

Director | Le beau Serge

Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le Beau Serge (1958), La Cérémonie (1995) and Story of Women (1988). He was married to Aurore Chabrol, Stéphane Audran and Agnès Goute. He died on September 12, 2010 in Paris, France.

28. Pierre Chevalier

Director | The Panther Squad

Pierre Chevalier was born on March 23, 1915 in Orbec, Calvados, France. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Panther Squad (1984), Pigalle carrefour des illusions (1973) and House of Cruel Dolls (1974). He was married to Brigitte Leleu, Dominique Lubin and Colette Desboeuf. He ...

29. Yves Ciampi

Director | Le ciel sur la tête

Yves Ciampi was born on February 9, 1921 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Heroes and Sinners (1955), Perfectionist (1951) and Skies Above (1965), with the latter nominated for the Grand Prix at the Moscow International Film Festival that year. He was married to Keiko Kishi,...

30. René Clair

Writer | Le silence est d'or

René Clair was born on November 11, 1898 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Man About Town (1947), Beauties of the Night (1952) and The Grand Maneuver (1955). He was married to Bronia Clair. He died on March 15, 1981 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

31. René Clément

Director | Jeux interdits

René Clément was one of the leading French directors of the post-World War II era. He directed what are regarded as some of the greatest films of the time, such as The Battle of the Rails (1946), Forbidden Games (1952) and The Day and the Hour (1963). He was later almost forgotten as a director. He...

32. Henri-Georges Clouzot

Writer | Le salaire de la peur

Beginning his film career as a screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot switched over to directing and in 1943 had the distinction of having his film The Raven (1943) banned by both the German forces occupying France and the Free French forces fighting them, but for different reasons. He shot to ...

33. Jean Cocteau

Writer | La Belle et la Bête

Jean Cocteau was one of the most multi-talented artists of the 20th century. In addition to being a director, he was a poet, novelist, painter, playwright, set designer, and actor. He began writing at 10 and was a published poet by age 16. He collaborated with the "Russian Ballet" company of Sergei...

34. Georges Combret

Producer | Duel à Dakar

Georges Combret was born on November 11, 1906 in Paris, France. He was a producer and writer, known for Duel à Dakar (1951), Marie of the Isles (1959) and Le feu de Dieu! (1967). He died on January 31, 1998 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

35. Louis Cuny

Director | Gentleman cambrioleur

Louis Cuny was born on November 24, 1902 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. Louis was a director and writer, known for Gentleman cambrioleur (1958), Plume au vent (1952) and La femme en rouge (1947). Louis died on July 24, 1962 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

36. Jacques Daniel-Norman

Writer | Prince de mon coeur

Jacques Daniel-Norman was born on December 2, 1901 in Lyon, Rhône, France. He was a writer and director, known for Prince de mon coeur (1938), Son dernier Noël (1952) and Si tu reviens (1938). He died on December 5, 1978 in Paris, France.

37. Louis Daquin

Director | Le point du jour

Louis Daquin was born on May 20, 1908 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a director and actor, known for Le point du jour (1949), Les frères Bouquinquant (1947) and The Thistles of the Baragan (1957). He died on October 2, 1980 in Paris, France.

38. Robert Darène

Director | La cage

Robert Darène was born on January 10, 1914 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor and director, known for La cage (1963), Saint-Louis, ange de la paix (1950) and The Amorous Corporal (1958). He was married to Marie-José Darène. He died on January 15, 2016 in Mittainville Yvelines, ...

39. Jacques Daroy

Director | Inspecteur Sergil

Jacques Daroy was born on March 13, 1896 in Paris, France. He was a director and producer, known for Inspecteur Sergil (1947), Riri et Nono en vacances (1932) and Le droit de l'enfant (1949). He died in 1963.

40. Guy Debord

Writer | In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

Guy Debord was born on December 28, 1931 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978), Howlings in Favour of De Sade (1952) and Fuerza nueva: Canción para los obreros de Seat (2019). He was married to Alice Becker-Ho and Michele ...

41. Henri Decoin

Writer | Abus de confiance

Partly due to the uneven quality of his work, Henri Decoin remained an overlooked director. Born in 1890, he was a sports correspondent, a novelist, Gallone's assistant, and a screenwriter, As a director, some of his films noirs are simply stellar and deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as ...

42. Jean Delannoy

Director | Dieu a besoin des hommes

Jean Delannoy began his film career in the 1920s as an actor. By the 1930s he had switched careers and become an editor, then a short-subjects director. By the mid-'30s he was a full-fledged director, and soon garnered a reputation as a sensitive, understated craftsman with a thorough command of ...

43. Maurice Delbez

Director | Et ta soeur

Maurice Delbez was born on July 28, 1922 in Bezons, Val-d'Oise, France. He was a director and assistant director, known for Et ta soeur (1958), In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!... (1961) and L'année du bac (1964). He died on March 23, 2020 in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France.

44. Jean Devaivre

Director | La ferme des sept péchés

Jean Devaivre (1912-2004),who had sunk into oblivion ,gained fame again as one of the heroes of Bertrand Tavernier's "Laissez passer" which was based on his memoirs(Jacques Gamblin played his part in this 2002 film).His career as a director was short-lived and only two of his movies are worth ...

45. Robert Dhéry

Actor | La belle Américaine

Robert Dhéry was born on April 27, 1921 in La Plaine Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The American Beauty (1961), Le petit baigneur (1968) and Les aventures des Pieds-Nickelés (1948). He was married to Colette Brosset. He died on December 5, 2004 ...

46. Henri Diamant-Berger

Director | Les trois mousquetaires

Henri Diamant-Berger was born on June 9, 1895 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Three Musketeers (1932), La madone des sleepings (1955) and Arsène Lupin détective (1937). He died on May 7, 1972 in Paris, France.

47. Jean Dréville

Director | Kampen om tungtvannet

The great neglected independent film-maker Jean Dreville had no formal education - he was educated privately at home. He showed an early interest in photography and art and his first jobs were as photographer, poster designer and draftsman. His break into films came in 1928 when he made his first ...

48. Clément Duhour

Producer | Vous n'avez rien à déclarer?

Clément Duhour was born on December 11, 1911 in Anglet, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. He was an actor and producer, known for Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? (1959), Si Paris nous était conté (1956) and Napoleon (1955). He was married to Viviane Romance. He died on January ...

49. Julien Duvivier

Writer | Panique

Revered by such legendary fellow directors as Ingmar Bergman and Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier is one of the most legendary figures in the history of French cinema. He is perhaps the most neglected of the "Big Five" of classic French cinema (the other four being Jean Renoir, Rene Clair, Jacques ...

50. Pierre Foucaud

Writer | Mademoiselle Strip-tease

Pierre Foucaud was born on March 19, 1908 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a writer and director, known for Mademoiselle Strip-tease (1957), Fantomas (1964) and Captain Blood (1960). He died on August 5, 1976 in Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente, Charente-Maritime, France.

51. Georges Franju

Director | Les yeux sans visage

Georges Franju is a figure of immense importance in the history of French cinema, not primarily for his films (exceptional though many of these are) but for being the co-founder, with Henri Langlois, of the Cinematheque Française in 1937--France's most famous and important film archive.

He worked ...

52. Abel Gance

Writer | La roue

Born an illegitimate son of a wealthy physician, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Francoise Perethon. He was raised by his mother and her boyfriend, who later became her husband, Adolphe Gance. Pressured by his parents, he began his working career as a lawyer's clerk in hopes of achieving ...

53. Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Writer | Shéhérazade

Pierre Gaspard-Huit was born on November 29, 1917 in Libourne, Gironde, France. He was a writer and director, known for Scorching Sands (1963), Le capitaine Fracasse (1961) and The Leatherstocking Tales (1969). He was married to Claudine Auger. He died on May 1, 2017 in Paris, France.

54. Michel Gast

Director | Céleste

Michel Gast was born on July 21, 1930 in Saint-Satur, Cher, France. He is a producer and writer, known for Céleste (1970), Autant en emporte le gang (1953) and Le Sahara brûle (1961).

55. Daniel Gélin

Actor | The Man Who Knew Too Much

Sensitive, boyishly handsome, dark-haired Gallic lead and character actor Daniel Gelin did not have an easy personal life but was warmly embraced as a talented star who appeared to fine advantage for such legendary directors as Max Ophüls, Louis Malle, Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, and Claude ...

56. Marcel Gibaud

Director | La vie de Jésus

Marcel Gibaud was born on July 22, 1921 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Life of Christ (1952), Lawless Street (1950) and Le bâton (1946). He died on January 1, 1970.

57. Gilles Grangier

Director | Archimède, le clochard

Gilles Grangier was born on May 5, 1911 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Archimède, le clochard (1959), Train d'enfer (1965) and The Night Affair (1958). He was married to Lucie Bourdillon. He died on April 27, 1996 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.

58. Jean Grémillon

Director | Pattes blanches

An educated man, Jean Grémillon (b.1898) should almost be mentioned in the same breath as the big five of the golden age of the French cinema (Carné, Renoir, Duvivier, Feyder and Clair). Some of his plans never came to anything: for instance, after World War 2, only three movies, which is too few ...

59. Edmond T. Gréville

Director | Veertig jaren

Edmond T. Gréville was born on June 20, 1906 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was a director and writer, known for Veertig jaren (1938), Temptation (1959) and The Hands of Orlac (1960). He was married to Vanda Gréville. He died on May 26, 1966 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

60. Paul Grimault

Director | La bergère et le ramoneur

Paul Grimault was born on March 23, 1905 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1952), The King and the Mockingbird (1980) and The Little Soldier (1948). He died on March 29, 1994 in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, ...

61. Ralph Habib

Director | The Stowaway

Ralph Habib was born on June 29, 1912 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Stowaway (1958), Rue des Saussaies (1951) and La forêt de l'adieu (1952). He died on June 27, 1969 in Paris, France.

62. André Haguet

Writer | Milord l'Arsouille

André Haguet was born on November 9, 1900 in Suresnes, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was a writer and director, known for Milord l'Arsouille (1955), Par ordre du tsar (1954) and Secret Document: Vienna (1950). He died on August 20, 1973 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

63. Claude Heymann

Writer | Victor

Claude Heymann was born on November 13, 1907 in Paris, France. He was a writer and production manager, known for Victor (1951), Aux frontières du possible (1971) and Adieu Paris (1952). He died on April 13, 1994 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.

64. Robert Hossein

Writer | Les misérables

The son of orchestra conductor André Hossein, Paris-born Robert Hossein was trained at René Simon's acting school. Hossein labored away as actor/director with the legendary Theatre Grand Guignol in Montmartre, then spent several years on the "legitimate" stage. In films from 1955's Rififi (Rififi (...

65. André Hunebelle

Director | OSS 117 se déchaîne

André Hunebelle (b. 1896) was an odd-job man ,always seeing which way the wind would blow when he made his movies;hence his eclecticism ,so to speak:comedies,swashbucklers (genre in which his gave his most pleasant works ),spy thrillers ,spoofs ....

His comedies (his dominant genre in the fifties) ...

66. Christian-Jaque

Director | Fanfan la tulipe

Christian-Jaque was born on September 4, 1904 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Fanfan la Tulipe (1952), If All the Guys in the World... (1956) and The Pearls of the Crown (1937). He was married to Denise Morlot, Laurence Christol, Martine Carol, Renée Faure, Simone Renant ...

67. Henri Jeanson

Writer | La vie en rose

Henri Jeanson was born on March 6, 1900 in Paris, France. He was a writer and actor, known for The Loves of Colette (1948), Lady Paname (1950) and Nana (1955). He was married to Claude Marcy and Marion Delbo. He died on November 6, 1970 in Équemauville, Calvados, France.

68. Léo Joannon

Director | Le défroqué

Léo Joannon was born on August 21, 1904 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le défroqué (1954), Le camion blanc (1943) and S.O.S. Mediterranean (1938). He was married to Foun-Sen. He died on March 28, 1969 ...

69. Pierre Kast

Director | Le bel âge

Pierre Kast was born on September 22, 1920 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le bel âge (1960), Vacances portugaises (1963) and Les charmes de l'existence (1949). He died on October 20, 1984 in Clichy-la-Garenne, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

70. Maurice Labro

Director | Corrida pour un espion

Maurice Labro (1910-1987) was the perfect Saturday-night-at-the movies director ;totally devoid of ambition,he made painstaking works though."Les Gosses Mènent L'Enquête " was an average attempt at another "Disparus De Saint-Agil "."L'Heroique Monsieur Boniface " and " Boniface Somnambule "might ...

71. Georges Lacombe

Director | Derrière la façade

Geoges Lacombe (b.1902) ,chiefly when he collaborated with Clouzot or Pierre Very ,gave estimable works.Too much of his filmography is simply forgettable ,but some works ,notably "Le Pays Sans Etoiles " and "Le Dernier Des Six" can be considered classics. He began with a short,"La zone"( 1928) ...

72. Albert Lamorisse

Director | Le ballon rouge

A former photographer, he turned to directing short subjects in the late 40s, soon acquiring an international reputation for the poetic quality of his short and medium-length films involving the fantasy world of children. Both his White Mane (1953) and The Red Balloon (1956) received a grand prize ...

73. Georges Lampin

Director | Retour à la vie

Georges Lampin was born on October 14, 1901 in Yekaterinburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a production manager and director, known for Retour à la vie (1949), Mathias Sandorf (1963) and Les anciens de Saint-Loup (1950). He died on May 8, 1979 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France.

74. Denys de La Patellière

Director | Un taxi pour Tobrouk

Denys de La Patellière was born on March 8, 1921 in Nantes, France. He was a director and writer, known for Taxi for Tobruk (1961), Forbidden Priests (1973) and Pourquoi Paris? (1964). He was married to Florence Renard. He died on July 21, 2013 in Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.

75. Jean Laviron

Director | Légère et court vêtue

Jean Laviron was born on April 26, 1915 in Paris, France. Jean was a director and writer, known for Lightly and Shortly Dressed (1953), Descendez, on vous demande (1951) and To Hell with the Virtue (1953). Jean died on February 15, 1987 in Fresneaux-Montchevreuil, Oise, France.

76. Henri Lavorel

Producer | Le voyage en Amérique

Henri Lavorel was born on July 5, 1914 in France. He was a producer and director, known for The Voyage to America (1951), It Happened in Paris (1952) and Chéri-Bibi (1955). He was married to Madeleine Carroll. He died on January 7, 1955 in Versailles, France.

77. Raymond Leboursier

Writer | La vie est un jeu

Raymond Leboursier was born on May 12, 1917 in Paris, France. He was an editor and writer, known for Life Is a Game (1951), Le furet (1950) and Little Nothings (1941). He died on July 26, 1987 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

78. Jean-Paul Le Chanois

Writer | ...Sans laisser d'adresse

For many decades, no French director was held in greater contempt than Jean-Paul Le Chanois (1909-1985). He was the perfect target of criticism by the New Wave filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s. However, unlike other targets of the Young Turks, Chanois was never restored to favor. Nevertheless...

79. Guy Lefranc

Director | La moucharde

Guy Lefranc was born on October 21, 1919 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Why Women Sin (1958), L'auvergnat et l'autobus (1969) and Salut Berthe! (1968). He died on February 1, 1994 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France.

80. Marcel L'Herbier

Director | L'inhumaine

Marcel L'Herbier was born on April 23, 1888 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for L'inhumaine (1924), Le bonheur (1934) and Sacrifice d'honneur (1935). He was married to Marcelle Pradot. He died on November 26, 1979 in Paris, France.

81. Jean Loubignac

Director | Ah! les belles bacchantes....

Jean Loubignac was born on November 25, 1901 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Jean was a director and writer, known for Ah! The Beautiful Priestesses of Bacchus (1954), Piédalu à Paris (1951) and Le martyr de Bougival (1949). Jean died on March 4, 1991 in Romans-sur-Isère...

82. Louis Malle

Director | Au revoir les enfants

Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle's family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic Studies ...

83. Jean-Pierre Melville

Writer | Le samouraï

The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous. It is the American novel, with its ...

84. Paul Mesnier

Writer | Une nuit aux Baléares

Paul Mesnier was born on August 3, 1904 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France. He was a writer and director, known for Une nuit aux Baléares (1957), Fou d'amour (1943) and Babies Galore (1956). He was married to Andrée Servilanges. He died on July 7, 1988 in Paris, France.

85. André Michel

Director | La sorcière

André Michel was born on November 7, 1907 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Blonde Witch (1956), Trois femmes (1952) and The Adventures of Remi (1958). He died on June 5, 1989.

86. Jean-Pierre Mocky

Director | Litan

As an actor he became popular as Albert de Morcerf in a version of The Count of Monte Cristo (1954), fame and adulation followed with his Francois in Head Against the Wall (1959). As a director he became famous with anarcho-pictures, brilliant cynic comedies. His preferred actors in all decades were...

87. Édouard Molinaro

Writer | The Birdcage

Édouard Molinaro was born on May 13, 1928 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Birdcage (1996), La Cage aux Folles (1978) and A Mistress for the Summer (1960). He was married to Catherine Molinaro, Marie-Hélène Breillat and Pierrette Carvallo. He died on ...

88. Pierre Montazel

Director | Je n'aime que toi...

Pierre Montazel was born on March 5, 1911 in Senlis, Oise, Picardie, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Je n'aime que toi... (1949), Ça va être ta fête (1960) and Pas de week end pour notre amour (1950). He died on September 8, 1975 in Paris, France.

89. Marcel Pagnol

Writer | La fille du puisatier

Marcel Pagnol was born on February 28, 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a writer and producer, known for The Well-Digger's Daughter (1940), Jean de Florette (1986) and Le schpountz (1938). He was married to Jacqueline Pagnol and Simone Collin. He died on April 18, 1974 in Paris, ...

90. Jean-Paul Paulin

Director | Cap au large

Jean-Paul Paulin (b.1902) was first Jean Choux's assistant.His output is disparate ,with ,now and then,an interesting work.His first effort ,"La Femme Nue " (1932) in spite of its title (the naked woman) ,was not really scandalous,although topless ladies briefly appeared.On the other hand , "...

91. Paul Paviot

Director | Pantomimes

Though he later directed several full length films and numerous television programs, Paul Paviot is best known in France for his work on the comedy short subject, and his championing of the artistry of the short in general by helping to found, in 1953,the Group of Thirty to defend short ...

92. Georges Péclet

Actor | La grande illusion

Georges Péclet was born on July 27, 1897 in La Brillanne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France. He was an actor and director, known for The Grand Illusion (1937), L'espionne sera à Nouméa (1963) and Les gaités de l'escadrille (1958). He died on January 11, 1974 in Marseille, ...

93. Gérard Philipe

Actor | Fanfan la tulipe

In 1940 Gerard left school and his parents wanted him be a lawyer. But soon his mother noticed that he was only interested in acting, although his father was against the idea. After timely intervention from Marc Allégret, who decided he showed some promise, Gerard's debut was in Claude Dauphin's ...

94. Roger Pierre

Actor | Mon oncle d'Amérique

Roger Pierre was born in Le-Port Marly, France 1923. In 1946 he had made his stage debut in a cabaret and was an extra in the war drama Le Père tranquille/Mr. Orchid (1946, René Clément) starring Noël-Noël. In 1947, he worked as a presenter of commercials at Radio-Luxembourg. There he met Jean-Marc...

95. Jacques Pinoteau

Director | Le grand pavois

Jacques Pinoteau was born on September 20, 1923 in Clairefontaine, Seine-et-Oise [now Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, Yvelines], France. He was a director and writer, known for Le grand pavois (1954), Les Globe-trotters (1966) and People in Luck (1963). He died on April 6, 2017 in Le Chesnay, Yvelines,...

96. Maurice Régamey

Director | À pleines mains

Maurice Régamey was born on January 7, 1924 in Wolanka, Poland. He was an actor and director, known for À pleines mains (1960), La salamandre d'or (1962) and Like a Hair in the Soup (1957). He was married to Francine Wainer. He died on August 23, 2009 in Paris, France.

97. Jean Renoir

Writer | La règle du jeu

Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he ...

98. Alain Resnais

Director | Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...

99. Roger Richebé

Producer | La tradition de minuit

Roger Richebé was born on December 3, 1897 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a producer and director, known for La tradition de minuit (1939), Monseigneur (1949) and L'habit vert (1937). He died on July 10, 1989 in Paris, France.

100. Carlo Rim

Writer | La maison Bonnadieu

Carlo Rim was born on December 19, 1902 in Nîmes, Gard, France. He was a writer and director, known for La maison Bonnadieu (1951), Dulcinea del Toboso (1964) and The Cupboard Was Bare (1948). He died on December 3, 1989 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.