Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Whistler, un Américain en Europe (documentary)
Les Ambitions de Pierre Puget, Peintre, Sculpteur,
Architecte (documentary)
1997 Savoir d’Egypte (documentary)
Manet, Monet, la Gare Saint-Lazare (documentary)
1998 Le Louvre (documentary)
1999 Losing Touch (documentary)
Animus (documentary)
2000 Dans le Champ des Etoiles (documentary)
2001 Henri Poincaré (documentary)
2002 L’Orient de Saladin (documentary)
Video Documentaries
1982 Beuve-Méry par lui-même
Le Tour du Monde
Television Filmography
1992 La Musique des Sphères (video documentary)
1995 A l’Ecoute de la Terre (documentary; France /
Belgium)
1996 Les Volcans (documentary)
Les Cartes du Monde (documentary)
1998 A l’Ecoute des Climats (documentary)
JAFFÉ, GEORGES (April 2, 1907, Paris, France–)
He successively was an assistant director (1944 L’Ange
de la Nuit, André Berthomieu; 1950 Ils ont Vingt Ans,
René Delacroix), screenwriter (1947 L’Homme de la
nuit, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, René
Jayet; 1948 Triple Enquête, as adapter, Claude Orval, shot
in 1946; 1949 Piège à Hommes, as screenwriter, Jean
Loubignac), and production manager (1949 Ma Tante
d’Honfl eur) before directing short and feature fi lms.
Filmography
1949 Extra-Lucide (short)
Un Fin Limier (short)
1950 Refrains d’Amour (short)
Le Pédicure chinois (short)
Ce Pauvre Desbonnets (short)
Merci cher Maître (short)
Le Fou du Sixième (short)
1954 Gamin de Paris
1959 Nuits de Pigalle (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
JAHAN, OLIVIER (January 1, 1956, Paris, France–)
A former assistant director (1979 Certaines Nouvelles,
Jacques Davila, shot in 1976), he worked as a cast-
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ing director on about fi fty commercials. He was the
assistant delegate of the Cannes Film Festival Directors’
Fortnight and contributed to the organization
of several other festivals (Deauville, Avoriaz). An occasional
actor (1994 Les Amoureux, Catherine Corsini;
1999 La Nouvelle Eve / A Nova Eva, Catherine Corsini,
France / Portugal; 1999 La Voleuse de Saint-Lubin,
Claire Devers; 2006 Les Ambitieux, Catherine Corsini)
and screenwriter (2005 Saint-Valentin, Philippe Harel),
he directed half a dozen movies, mostly shorts.
Filmography
1993 Parlez après le Signal sonore (short; also
screenwriter)
1994 Comme un Dimanche (short; also screenwriter)
1996 Au Bord de l’Autoroute / USA: Along the Freeway
(short; also screenwriter)
1997 Beaucoup trop loin (short; also screenwriter)
2001 Faites comme si je n’étais pas là (also coscreenwriter;
shot in 1999)
2004 Du Bois pour l’Hiver (short; also co-screenwriter)
2008 40x15 (documentary)
JALLAUD, PIERRE (October 10, 1922, Paris,
France–February 17, 2006, Lyon, Rhône, France)
A true “fi lm author,” he was marginalized by the commercial
failure of his fi lms. He also played a small part
in Voir l’Eléphant (Jean Marboeuf, 1990).
Filmography
1964 Véronique et le Chat (documentary; short; codirector
with Sylvia Jallaud)
1972 Une infi nie Tendresse (shot in 1969)
1975 La Chaise vide (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
shot in 1973)
1985 Le Temps d’un Instant
Television Filmography
1978 Mais qu’est-ce qu’on va faire de lui?
1981 Mon meilleur Noël (8 25'; co-director only;
episode “Un Contretemps inoubliable”)
1985 Tous les Jours Dimanche
JAMAIN, PATRICK (June 5, 1944, Châteauroux,
Indre, France–)
Having trained as an actor, he worked with Jean-Louis
Barrault at the Théâtre de l’Odéon. He entered fi lms
as an assistant director (1970 Vertige pour un Tueur /
Vertigine per un assassino, Jean-Pierre Desagnat, France