Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1968 Les Enfants de l’Espace (animated short; also
screenwriter, producer)
1970 Aladin et la Lampe merveilleuse / UK and USA:
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (animated short;
also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1971 Pantatomanie (animated short; also screenwriter)
1973 Joë petit Boum-Boum / Canada: Johnny in the
Valley of the Giants (animation; also screenwriter)
Le Crayon de l’Espace (animated short; also
screenwriter)
1979 Piluk, Naufragé de l’Espace (animation; also
screenwriter; shot in 1974)
Les Fabuleuses Aventures du légendaire Baron de
Münchausen (animation; also co-screenwriter,
delegate producer)
1983 Le Secret des Sélénites / USA: Moon Madness
(animation; also co-screenwriter; shot
in 1981)
IMBERT, HENRI-FRANÇOIS (1967, Narbonne,
Aude, France–)
He started shooting Super-8 shorts at age twenty.
Most of the professional documentaries he directed
are linked to fi lmed diaries and home movies. In 1992,
he created his own production company, Libre Cours.
Since 1999, he has taught documentary directing at
the University of Paris VIII.
Filmography
1988 Ciné-Journal (documentary)
1993 André Robillard (documentary; short)
2000 Doulaye, une Saison des Pluies (documentary;
also screenwriter, cinematographer, sound
engineer, editor)
Sur la Plage de Belfast (documentary; short;
also cinematographer, sound engineer; shot
in 1996)
2003 No pasaran, Album Souvenir (documentary; also
screenwriter, producer, narrator, cinematographer,
editor)
IRIBE, MARIE-LOUISE (Pauline Lavoisot / November
29, 1894, Paris, France–April 12, 1934, Paris,
France)
A fi lm actress from 1913 (Fleur fânée . . . Coeur aimé, René
Le Somptier), she played in a few fi lms but worked with
some of the best directors of her time: Jacques Feyder
(1921 L’Atlantide / USA: Lost Atlantis / Missing Husbands),
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Henri Fescourt (1924 Le Gardien du Feu), and Jean
Renoir (1927 Marquitta, in the title role). Marquitta allowed
her to start a second career as a producer for
the company Les Artistes Réunis (1927 Chantage, Henri
Debain, also art director). She died at age thirty-nine
after directing two feature fi lms. She was married to
actors Pierre Renoir and André Roanne.
Filmography
1928 Hara-Kiri (she replaced the original director
Henri Debain; co-director with Pierre
Lestringuez; also producer, actor)
1930 Le Roi des Aulnes / USA: The Erl King (also
German-language version: Der Erlkönig; also
producer; France / Germany)
ISNARD, ARMAND (August 1, 1939, Montmorency,
Val-d’Oise, France–)
From 1957 to 1970, he was a chansonnier and appeared
in cabarets and on humoristic TV shows. The
author of about 400 sketches for comedian Fernand
Raynaud, he was also a writer, publisher (in the
1990s), and occasional fi lm (1974 Gross Paris, Gilles
Grangier) and TV actor (1973 Les Ecrivains, Robert
Guez; 1974 L’Accusée, 20 13', Pierre Goutas; 1975
Les Pilotes de Courses, 26 13', Robert Guez; 1976 Le
Milliardaire, Robert Guez). His only feature fi lm was
a lowbrow comedy. From 1996, he shot more than
sixty documentaries.
Filmography
1986 Le Collège fi le à l’anglaise (also screenwriter;
dialogist)
Television Filmography
1996 Barbara Cartland, ma Vie est un Roman (documentary)
Marthe Robin, de la Souffrance à l’Abandon
(documentary)
Sainte Catherine Laboure, la Sainte du Silence
(documentary)
Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux, un si grand Amour pour
Dieu (documentary)
Sainte Rita, la Sainte des Causes désespérées
(documentary)
1997 Sissi impératrice, née pour être Reine (documentary)
L’ïle Maurice, perle de l’Océan indien (documentary)
Le Père Laval, Témoin de l’Amour de Dieu parmi
les Hommes (documentary)