Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1957 Pot-Bouille / Le donne degli altri / UK: The House
of Lovers / USA: Lovers of Paris, as screenwriter, coadapter,
Julien Duvivier, France / Italy; 1961 Le vergini
di Roma / Les Vierges de Rome / USA: Amazons of
Rome, as screenwriter, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Vittorio
Cottafavi, Italy / France / Yugoslavia; 1969 S.O.S.
Fréquence, TV series, episode “Alerte générale,” as
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Claude Boissol). He also
was a production manager (1929 Quartier Latin, Augusto
Genina), supervising director (1939 Le Paradis
des Voleurs / Avec les Chevaux de Bois, L. C. Marsoudet;
1944 La Collection Ménard, Bernard-Roland), and actor
(1955 Les Aristocrates / UK: The Aristocrats, Denys
de La Patellière; 1957 Un Amour de Poche / UK: Nude
in His Pocket / USA: Girl in His Pocket, Pierre Kast).
Harold Huth shot a British remake of his fi lm Alerte
en Méditerranée (1939 Hell’s Cargo / USA: Dangerous
Cargo). In 1950–1951, he directed Laurel and Hardy’s
last fi lm, the mediocre Atoll K, which was released in
the USA in 1954 as Utopia.
Filmography
1931 Durand contre Durand (French-language version
of Eugene Thiele’s Einer Frau muss alles
verzelh’n; Germany / France)
Sur la Voie du Bonheur
1932 Suzanne (co-director with Raymond Rouleau)
Il a été perdu une Mariée
1933 Six Cent Mille Francs par Mois
1934 Adieu les Copains! (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Bibi la Purée
On a trouvé une Femme nue
Le Bouif chez les Pur-Sang (short)
1935 Quelle Drôle de Gosse!
Train de Plaisir
Les Conquêtes de César (short)
1936 Quand Minuit sonnera (also Dutch-language
version of Klokslag twsalf; France / Netherlands)
Mais n’te promène donc pas toute Nue! (short)
1937 Vous n’avez rien à déclarer? / USA: Confessions
of a Newlywed (also producer)
L’Homme sans Cœur (also Dutch-language
version: De man zonder Hart; France / Netherlands)
Le Chanteur de Minuit
1938 Alerte en Méditerranée / UK: Alert in the Mediterranean
/ USA: S.O.S. Mediterranean (also
screenwriter)
1940 L’Emigrante (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
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1942 Caprices (also screenwriter)
1943 Le Camion blanc (also screenwriter)
Lucrèce
1944 Le Carrefour des Enfants perdus / UK and USA:
Children of Chaos
1945 Documents secrets (shot in 1940)
1950 Le 84 prend des Vacances (also co-adapter)
1951 Atoll K / Atollo K / UK: Escapade / Robinson
Crusoeland / USA: Utopia (also screenwriter;
France / Italy)
1952 Drôle de Noce (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist, producer)
1954 Le Défroqué (also screenwriter, co-adapter,
actor)
1956 Le Secret de Sœur Angèle / Il segreto di Suor
Angela / UK: Secret of Sister Angela / USA: Sister
Angele’s Secret (also screenwriter, co-dialogist,
actor; France / Italy)
L’Homme aux Clés d’Or (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, actor)
1958 Le Désert de Pigalle / L’inferno di Pigalle / UK:
A Priest in Pigalle (also co-screenwriter, codialogist,
actor; France / Italy)
Tant d’Amour perdu / Le insaziabili (also coscreenwriter;
France / Italy)
1962 L’Assassin est dans l’Annuaire (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, actor)
1963 Fort-du-Fou / Il forte dei disperati / USA: Outpost
in Indochina (also co-adapter, actor; France /
Italy)
1966 Trois Enfants dans le Désordre (also screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1967 Les Arnaud / Voglia vivere la mia vita (also
screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)
JOB, GUY (1945, France)
A TV producer, he started out as a journalist and
director for French and foreign TV.
Filmography
1967 L’Etat normal (co-director with Jean-Patrick
Lebel)
1970 5 + 1 (documentary; co-director with Michel
Taittinger)
Television Filmography
1999 Crazy Horse (documentary; also screenwriter)
JOFFÉ, ALEX (Alexandre Joffé / November 18, 1918,
Alexandria, Egypt–August 18, 1995, Paris, France)