Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

510 • HUBERT, JEAN-LOUP
1962 Lawrence of Arabia, David Lean, USA; 1963 55
Days of Peking, Nicholas Ray, USA; 1967 Custer of the
West / short version: A Good Day for Fighting, Robert
Siodmak, UK / USA; 1968 A Flea in Her Ear / La Puce
à l’Oreille, Jacques Charon, USA / France) but also
worked as a production designer (1953 Act of Love /
Un Acte d’Amour, Anatole Litvak, USA / France), associate
producer (1957 The Happy Road / La Route joyeuse;
Gene Kelly, USA / France; 1962 Phaedra / Faidra, Jules
Dassin, USA / Greece), co-screenwriter (1973 Les
Malheurs de la Comtesse, TV, Bernard Defl andre), and
director. He wrote a book about the shooting of Land
of the Pharaohs: 1977 Hollywood sur Nil (Fayard; reedited
in 2001 and 2008 by Ramsay).
Filmography
1964 D’où viens-tu, Johnny? (co-director with Bernard
Paul)
1965 La Fabuleuse Aventure de Marco Polo / Lo scacchiere
di Dio / Le meravigliose avventure di
Marco polo / Marko Polo / UK and USA: Marco
the Magnifi cent, co-director with Denys de La
Patellière; also actor; France / Italy / Yugoslavia
/ Afghanistan; shot in 1963–1964)
Television Filmography
1968 Journey to the Unknown (episode “One on a
Desert Island,” UK)
HUBERT, JEAN-LOUP (October 4, 1949, Nantes,
Loire-Atlantique, France–)
A former comic book drawer (he notably collaborated
on Pilote and Fluide Glacial), he turned a director
in 1981. He co-wrote La Gitane (Philippe de Broca,
1986). In 1991, Mary Agnes Donoghue fi lmed an
American remake of Le Grand Chemin (Paradise).
Filmography
1981 L’Année prochaine, si tout va bien . . . / UK and
USA: Next Year if All Goes Well (also screenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist)
1984 La Smala (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1987 Le Grand Chemin / USA: The Grand Highway
(also original novel, screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1989 Après la Guerre / Der Krieg ist aus (also screenwriter,
dialogist; France / West Germany)
1991 Contre l’Oubli / Ecrire contre l’Oubli / Against
Oblivion / Lest We Forget (documentary; segment
“Pour Andreas Christodoulou, Grèce”)
La Reine blanche (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1993 A Cause d’elle (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1997 Marthe (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1999 La Cérémonie des Césars (short; also screenwriter)
Duel (short; also screenwriter)
Pulpeuse Fiction (short; also screenwriter)
Une Promesse (short; also screenwriter)
2000 Avec infi niment d’Amour (short; also screenwriter)
2004 3 Petites Filles (also screenwriter, dialogist;
France / Belgium)
HUBINET, JACQUES (1945, France–)
Delegate producer of Rendez-vous des Quais (Paul
Carpita, 1955), he managed the association Cinéma
au Soleil, which supported “The Sunny Side of the
Docks,” the Marseille’s documentary market.
Filmography
1976 Pour quelque Chose de plus (documentary; codirector
with Jean-Claude Bertrand)
HUCHEZ, ALEXANDRE
Filmography
2004 Les Aventures extraordinaires de Michel Strogoff
(animation; co-director with Bruno René
Huchez)
HUGON, ANDRÉ (Jean Hugon / December 17,
1886, Algiers, Algeria–August 22, 1960, Cannes,
Alpes-Maritimes, France)
A former fi lm journalist for Paris-Midi, Excelsior, and
Le Temps, he launched an illustrated movie magazine,
Cinéma-Théâtre, in 1918. He wrote several novels
before being hired by Pathé as a screenwriter (1912
Rigadin Défenseur de la vertu, Georges Monca). A fi lm
director since 1913, he joined the SPCA (Section
Photographique et Cinématographique des Armées,
the cinematographic and photographic section of the
army) in 1916. He produced most of his fi lms and
a few others (1945 Le Père Serge, Lucien Gasnier-
Raymond; 1947 Monsieur de Falindor, René Le Hénaff;
Le Village de la Colère, Raoul André; 1948 Fiacre 13,
also technical cooperation, two parts: “Le Crime,”
“Le Châtiment,” Raoul André; L’Assassin est à l’Ecoute,
Raoul André). In 1929, he directed the fi rst French
talking picture (Les Trois Masques).