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Bruno Dumont was born on 14 March 1958 in Bailleul, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He is a writer and director, known for Li'l Quinquin (2014), The Life of Jesus (1997) and Camille Claudel 1915 (2013).- Actress
- Producer
Anne Le Nen was born on 25 September 1971 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress and producer, known for Des gens bien (2017), Astrid et Raphaëlle (2019) and Daddy or Mommy (2015).- Music Artist
- Actress
- Composer
Louane Emera was born on 26 November 1996 in Hénin-Beaumont, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is a music artist and actress, known for The Bélier Family (2014), Take a Chance on Me (2023) and Les affamés (2018).- Director
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- Producer
Robert Enrico studied in Toulon and then in Paris where he graduated from Lycée Voltaire. He later enrolled in the famous film school IDHEC where he specialized in editing and directing. Until 1956 he was an active member of the Sorbonne's medieval group "Les Théophiliens". From 1956 to 1959 he did his military service within the Service Cinématographique des Armées. His shorts gave him critical acclaim very early in his career. Having become the maker of popular movies after an arty debut, he was awarded the best movie "César" for The Old Gun (1975) before becoming the long-time president of "L'Académie des Césars".- Actor
- Soundtrack
Philippe Duquesne was born on 30 June 1965 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), Welcome to the Sticks (2008) and The Truth About Charlie (2002).- Jean-Yves Berteloot was born on 27 August 1957 in Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor, known for The Da Vinci Code (2006), Hereafter (2010) and The French Revolution (1989).
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Xavier Beauvois was born on 20 March 1967 in Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Of Gods and Men (2010), North (1991) and Don't Forget You're Going to Die (1995).- Actress
- Art Department
- Make-Up Department
Karine Belly was born on 3 January 1971 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), The Stevensons (2006) and Ange de feu (2006). She has been married to Martin Lamotte since 14 February 2002.- Jean-Christophe Novelli was born on 22 February 1961 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- French stage and film actress. She made her stage debut in 1912 in Marseille after studying at the Nice Conservatoire. She devoted herself to the stage for more than a decade, then entered into an active film career in 1930. She played in scores of films over the next two-and-a-half decades, specializing in long-suffering mother roles. She was particularly memorable as Sancho Panza's wife in 'Don Quichotte (1933)', for director Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
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- Soundtrack
Sophie Daumier was born on 24 November 1934 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Sputnik (1958), À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) and Fort Yuma Gold (1966). She was married to Guy Bedos. She died on 31 December 2003 in Paris, France.- Katherine Kath was born on 11 August 1920 in Berck, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress, known for Moulin Rouge (1952), The Prisoner (1967) and Subway in the Sky (1959). She was married to Jack Clayton. She died on 17 November 2012 in London, England, UK.
- Betty Schneider was born in 1934 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for Paris Belongs to Us (1961), Classe Tous Risques (1960) and A Bomb for a Dictator (1957).
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Chantal Ladesou was born on 5 May 1948 in Roubaix, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for People (2004).- Adélaïde Leroux was born on 30 December 1982 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for Home (2008), Uchronia (2016) and Flanders (2006).
- Philippe Tlokinski was born on 6 May 1985 in Bois-Bernard, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor, known for The Resistance Fighter (2019), The Day I Found a Girl in a Trash (2021) and Strazacy (2015).
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Jacques Renard was born on 6 March 1944 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is a director and writer, known for Hamburger Extrablätter (1961), Blanche and Marie (1985) and Monsieur Albert (1976).- Director
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Jean Douchet was born on 19 January 1929 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a director and actor, known for Elle (2016), Sitcom (1998) and Six in Paris (1965). He died on 22 November 2019 in Paris, France.- David Douche was born on 5 January 1973 in Calonne-sur-la-Lys, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was an actor, known for The Life of Jesus (1997). He died on 7 December 2015 in Hazebrouck, Nord, France.
- Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (24 April 1856 - 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain, was a French general who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World War I, during which he became known as The Lion of Verdun (French: Le lion DE Verdun). From 1940 to 1944, during World War II, he served as head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France. Pétain, who was 84 years old in 1940, ranks as France's oldest head of state.
- Franck Henry Pierre Ribéry is a French professional footballer who plays for German club Bayern Munich. He is a former France national team player. He primarily plays as a winger, preferably on the left side although being right-footed, and is known for pace, energy, skill and precise passing. Ribéry is described as a player who is fast, tricky and an excellent dribbler, who has great control with the ball at his feet. Since joining Bayern, he has been recognised on the world stage as one of the best French players of his generation. The previous talisman of the French national team, Zinédine Zidane, has called Ribéry the "jewel of French football".
Ribéry's career began in 1989 as a youth player for local hometown club Conti Boulogne. He left the club after seven years to join professional outfit Lille, but departed the club after three years after having difficulties adjusting. In 1999, Ribéry joined US Boulogne, where he played for two years. After spending two more years in the amateur divisions with two different clubs (Alès and Brest), in 2004, Ribéry earned a move to Ligue 1 club FC Metz. After six months with the club, Ribéry moved to Turkey in January 2005 to join Galatasaray, where he won the Turkish Cup. After six months at Galatasaray, he departed the club in controversial fashion in order to return to France to join Marseille. Ribéry spent two seasons at the club, helping the Marseillais reach the final of the Coupe de France in back-to-back seasons. In 2007, Ribéry joined German club Bayern Munich for a then club-record fee of EUR25 million. With Bayern, he has won eight Bundesliga titles, five DFB-Pokal, one UEFA Champions League and one FIFA Club World Cup, which include four doubles and one treble. His form for Bayern in the club's 2012-13 treble winning season saw him nominated alongside Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo on the three-man shortlist for the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or.
Between 2006 and 2014, Ribéry represented the France national football team 81 times. Ribéry has represented his nation at two FIFA World Cups (2006, 2010) and two UEFA European Football Championships (2008, 2012). He made his international debut in May 2006 against Mexico. At the 2006 World Cup, Ribéry scored his first international goal against Spain and played in the final match against Italy.
Individually, Ribéry is a three-time winner of the French Player of the Year award and has also won the German Footballer of the Year becoming the first player to hold both honours. He has also been named to the UEFA Team of the Year and declared the Young Player of the Year in France. In 2013, Ribéry won the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award. In 2013, he was also ranked fourth in The Guardian's list of the best players in the world. - Actress
- Producer
Afida Turner was born on 22 December 1976 in Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress and producer, known for Shut Up and Shoot! (2006), Single Black Female (2009) and Visions Interdites (2013). She was previously married to Ronnie Turner.- Denise Péron was born on 12 February 1925 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress, known for Love and Death (1975), The Swashbuckler (1971) and The Middle of the World (1974). She died on 19 July 1996 in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Pierre Repp was born on 5 November 1909 in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was an actor, known for The 400 Blows (1959), M'sieur la Caille (1955) and Cartouche (1962). He was married to Ferdinande Bouclet. He died on 1 November 1986 in Le Plessis-Trévise, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Jean-Luc Vincent was born on 6 August 1973 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Camille Claudel 1915 (2013), Slack Bay (2016) and Texte à trous (2016).
- Fred Personne was born on 20 August 1932 in Auchel, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was an actor, known for Welcome to the Sticks (2008), Every Man for Himself (1980) and D'Artagnan (1969). He died on 17 November 2014 in Marmande, Lot-et-Garonne, France.
- Adeline D'Hermy was born on 18 April 1987 in Bois-Bernard, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for Maryline (2017), Comédie-Française in cinemas (2017) and Les liens du sang (2008).
- Germaine Acremant was born on 13 June 1889 in Saint Omer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was a writer, known for Ces dames aux chapeaux verts (1929), The Ladies in the Green Hats (1937) and Ces dames aux chapeaux verts (1949). She died on 24 August 1986 in Neuilly, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
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Pierre Cottrell was one of the most important figures linking the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) and the New American Cinema. As a producer and active associate producer, Cottrell worked with some of the most creative filmmakers of the past fifty years. His role was often hard to define because he was involved in so many aspects of filmmaking, often uncredited.
Cottrell met Éric Rohmer when he was 15 at Cahiers du Cinéma. Four years later, in 1964, just back from the United States, he joined Barbet Schroeder and Rohmer, who were launching Films du Losange. While on a short trainee program in New York at Alcoa Aluminum Company in 1963, Cottrell had the privilege to get to know the fearsome Otto Preminger. The Viennese film director enjoyed dissecting his work with that rare species: a French cinephile. When Cottrell was arrested with Jonas Mekas on the charge of pornography by the New York police for having screened Jean Genet's film, Song of Love (1950), Preminger asked his niece Eve Preminger to take on the case.
Later on, in 1967, Cottrell was working with Films du Losange when Roger Corman asked him to organize the shooting of two films in Istanbul and Monte Carlo: The Wild Racers (1968) and Target: Harry (1969) (What's in it for Harry?). 1969 found him linked to the New Hollywood through his friend Jack Nicholson who was getting to stardom with his part in Easy Rider (1969). Right before the screening "hors competition" at the Cannes Film Festival of the film, Bert Schneider (founder of BBS with pals Rafelson and Blauner), not happy with the French subtitles provided by the Paris office of Columbia's, asked Cottrell to rewrite the French subtitles - since his return to France, Cottrell had been subtitling films with Bernard Eisenschitz, his buddy from the lycée Henri-IV. It might be of interest to know that the partnership was started by Pierre Rissient, then programming the MacMahon movie theater, who showed Joseph Losey's films in Paris. From 1969 to 1972, Cottrell concentrated on Films du Losange, producing three of Rohmer's most important films: My Night at Maud's (1969), Claire's Knee (1970), and Love in the Afternoon (1972), with the last two distributed in the USA by Columbia.
Back in 1966, Cottrell had helped Nicholson find French distribution for two Corman pictures he had produced, both directed by Monte Hellman, The Shooting (1966) and Ride in the Whirlwind (1966). After the huge box-office success of Easy Rider, Nicholson and Rafelson provided some money - half the budget of $120,000 - that Cottrell put into Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973) in 1972. The film won two prizes at Cannes in 1973, but its length of 3 hours and 40 minutes prevented box-office success. Much was expected from Eustache's third film, My Little Loves (1974), a title from Rimbaud's poem. But the film was murdered: reviews came out two weeks after its release because Eustache had refused access to the press screening to a reviewer of dubious taste who had trashed The Mother and the Whore. The hack's colleagues, who had ignored him until then, decided to support him. So much for film critics backing independent "art films".
In 1975, as associate producer on Wim Wenders' The American Friend (1977), Cottrell brought Dennis Hopper to the production. Later, in 1981, he originated Lightning Over Water (1980), shot in New York by Wenders and the dying Nicholas Ray. Along with Hawks, Walsh and Lang, Ray figured in the pantheon of Cottrell's favorite directors. In 1982, he brought Wenders (who was on standby in San Francisco during the editing of Hammett) to Portugal, where The State of Things (1982) was shot. It was filmed back to back with Raúl Ruiz's The Territory (1981), another film he was involved with.
Cottrell continued to shuttle back and forth between Europe and the US until Roger Corman turned to him in 1978 for his production of Peter Bogdanovich's Saint Jack (1979) in Singapore. By then Cottrell had been supplying Corman with some of France's top cameramen, including Néstor Almendros, Pierre-William Glenn and Daniel Lacambre. Throughout the last three decades of his life, Cottrell worked as one of the world's most prestigious subtitlers. His credits include works by David Lynch, Spike Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Ridley Scott and many others. He always sought to eke out the right balance between a perfect translation of often jargon-laden dialogue into the patois of another language. He juggled meaning, nuance, mood, length and position to achieve what would appear seamless on screen, leaving viewers with the impression that they had not been reading at all. His dedication to finding the exact meaning and sense of every word produced truly magical results.- Ron Corning was born on 23 June 1971 in Calais, Maine, USA. He is an actor, known for Dallas (2012), Tainted Dreams (2014) and A Very Sordid Wedding (2017).
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- Music Department
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Raymond Lefebvre was born on 20 November 1929 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a composer and actor, known for The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez (1964). He was married to Nicole Bernard-Savary. He died on 27 June 2008 in Seine-Port, Seine-et-Marne, France.- Eugène-François Vidocq was born on 25 July 1775 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. Eugène-François was a writer, known for Vidocq (2001), A Scandal in Paris (1946) and Vidocq (1939). Eugène-François died on 11 May 1857 in Belgium.
- Mlle. Ottowa was born on 23 August 1897 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress, known for The Woman, the Lion and the Man (1915), The Rajah's Sacrifice (1915) and M.T. Dome's Awful Night (1916). She was married to Paul Ingolio. She died in October 1985 in Flushing, New York, USA.
- Music Department
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Danielle Licari was born on 11 November 1943 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Asterix Versus Caesar (1985) and The Deadly Trap (1971).- Candice Patou was born on 26 March 1947 in Haverskerque, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for L'idole des jeunes (1976), Emmenez-moi au théâtre: Pas d'orchidées pour Miss Blandisch (1978) and Les faucheurs de marguerites (1974). She was previously married to Robert Hossein.
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- Producer
Stéphane Rotenberg was born on 21 September 1967 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor and producer, known for Comme au cinéma (1998), Thelma, Louise et Chantal (2010) and Pékin express (2006).- Writer
- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Pierre Fabre was born on 14 October 1933 in Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a writer and actor, known for Bed & Board (1970), Tout dépend des filles... (1980) and Nestor Burma, détective de choc (1982). He was married to Anna Karina. He died on 24 March 2006 in Paris, France.- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Alfred Machin started his film work as camera man for Pathe at the beginning of 20 Century. During 1907 and 1909 he was in Africa, shooting documentary shorts. In 1910 he worked at the Pathe studio in Nizza, in 1911 he was one of the founding directors of the Pathe-filiale in Amsterdam, in 1913 he was the same in Brussel. In 1913/14 he made the pazifistic Maudite Soit la Guerre, which was released two months before the outbreak of WW I. In 1921 he purchased the Pathe studio in Nizza, founded his own production company and made nine pictures, before he died in 1929.- Maryse Manios was born in 1960 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- Henri Leconte was born on 4 July 1963 in Lillers, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor, known for Jeu, set et match (1985), Wimbledon (1937) and Le grand échiquier (1972). He is married to Florentine. They have two children. He was previously married to Marie Sara.
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- Soundtrack
Pierre Jansen was born on 28 February 1930 in Roubaix, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Violette (1978), The Good Time Girls (1960) and Blue Panther (1965). He was married to Colette Zerah. He died on 13 August 2015 in Saint-Pierre-Saint-Jean, Rhone-Alpes, France.- Michel Dacquin was born on 1 August 1930 in Le Wast, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was an actor, known for Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960), Riff Raff Girls (1959) and Army of Shadows (1969). He died on 29 November 2002 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- Emmanuelle Marie was born on 28 January 1965 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress, known for Inséparables (1999). She died on 9 May 2007 in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Jean-Pierre Papin was born on 5 November 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is married to Florence. They have four children.
- Actress
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sarah Scotté was born on 22 April 1990 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Le Veilleur (2020), Sexe & Trahison (2021) and La Dernière Vague (2017).- Actress
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Violette Leduc was born on 7 April 1907 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Therese and Isabelle (1968), Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966) and Dim Dam Dom (1965). She died on 28 May 1972 in Faucon, Vaucluse, France.- Director
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Jean-Louis Fournier was born on 19 December 1938 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is a director and writer, known for Je vais t'apprendre la politesse (1998), Merci Bernard (1982) and Le masque (1989).- Yvonne de Gaulle was born on 22 May 1900 in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was married to Charles de Gaulle. She died on 8 November 1979 in Paris, France.
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Gérard Houllier was born on 3 September 1947 in Thérouanne, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was a director and actor, known for Goal II: Living the Dream (2007), FA CUP Fourth Round Arsenal FC vs Liverpool FC (2002) and Liverpool FC vs Leicester City (2003). He was married to Isabelle Duranteau. He died on 14 December 2020 in Paris, France.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Didier Lockwood was born on 11 February 1956 in Calais, France. He was a composer and actor, known for Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul (2010) and Max & Jeremie (1992). He was married to Patricia Petibon and Caroline Casadesus. He died on 18 February 2018 in Paris, France.