Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

584 • LACOMBE, GEORGES
1985 La Part de l’Autre (also screenwriter)
1995 Jules et Jim (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
LACOMBE, GEORGES (August 19, 1902, Paris,
France–April 14, 1990, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes,
France)
He made a brilliant fi lm debut with an avant-garde
documentary short (La Zone) before serving as an
assistant director (1924 Entracte, René Clair; 1925 Le
Fantôme du Moulin Rouge, René Clair; 1926 Le Voyage
imaginaire, René Clair; La Proie du Vent, René Clair;
1928 Maldone / USA: Misdeal, Jean Grémillon; Un
Chapeau de Paille d’Italie / USA: An Italian Straw Hat /
The Horse Ate the Hat, René Clair; La Tour, short, René
Clair; 1929 Les Deux Timides, René Clair; 1930 Sous les
Toits de Paris / UK and USA: Under the Roofs of Paris,
René Clair; 1931 Mon Ami Victor, André Berthomieu;
Le Million, René Clair). He directed his fi rst feature
in 1932. He also co-wrote Leçon de Conduite (Gilles
Grangier, 1946) and supervised the shooting of Mademoiselle
de la Ferté (Roger Dallier, 1949).
Filmography
1928 La Zone / La Zone, au Pays des Chiffonniers
(documentary; short)
1929 Bluff (short)
1931 Boule de Gomme (short)
Un Jour d’Eté (short)
1932 Un Coup de Téléphone
Ce Cochon de Morin
Pan! . . . Pan! . . . (short)
1933 La Femme invisible
1934 Jeunesse (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1935 Les Epoux scandaleux
1936 La Route heureuse
Le Cœur dispose
1938 Café de Paris (co-director with Yves Mirande)
1939 Derrière la Façade / 32 Rue de Montmartre
(also co-screenwriter; co-director with Yves
Mirande)
1940 Les Musiciens du Ciel
Elles étaient douze Femmes
1941 Le Dernier des Six
Montmartre-sur-Seine (also co-screenwriter)
1942 Le Journal tombe à Cinq Heures
Monsieur la Souris / USA: Midnight in Paris
1943 L’Escalier sans Fin
1944 Florence est folle
1946 Le Pays sans Etoiles (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
Martin Roumagnac / USA: The Room Upstairs
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1948 Les Condamnés
1950 Prélude à la Gloire
1951 La Nuit est mon Royaume / USA: The Night Is
My Kingdom
1952 Les Sept Péchés capitaux / I sette peccati / I sette
peccati capitali / UK and USA: The Seven Deadly
Sins (segment “Le Huitième Péché / “Lottivo
peccato” / Eighth Sin”; France / Italy)
1953 L’Appel du Destin
Leur Dernière Nuit / USA: Their Last Night
1956 La Lumière d’en Face / USA: The Light Across the
Street / Female and the Flesh
1958 Cargaison blanche / USA: Illegal Cargo (also
screenwriter)
Mon Coquin de Père / A Parigi in vacanza (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter; shot in 1956)
Television Filmography
1961 L’Âme de Nicolas Snyders
1962 L’Inspecteur Leclerc enquête / L’Inspecteur Leclerc
(episode “Affaire de Famille”)
1970 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
1973 Une Atroce petite Musique
LACOUR, JOSÉ-ANDRÉ (October 27, 1919, Gilly,
Belgium–November 13, 2005, Paris, France)
Mainly a novelist, he occasionally worked as a screenwriter
for fi lm (1959 La Nuit des Traqués, as author of
original novel, screenwriter, dialogist, Bernard-Roland,
France / Belgium; 1994 L’Enfer / USA: Hell / Jealousy /
Torment, as author of additional dialogue, Claude Chabrol)
and TV (1977 Mariages, TV miniseries, as adapter,
Teff Erhat; 1983 Lily Lamont, as adapter of original play,
Edouard Logereau; 1984 Rue Carnot, 200 26'; as coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist, Jean-Pierre Desagnat, Pierre
Goutas, Gilles Legrand; 1986 Le Rire de Caïn, 6 52',
Marcel Moussy). One of his plays (1951 Le Cap de
l’Espérance / La nostra pelle, Raymond Bernard, France /
Italy) and one of his novels (1956 La Mort en ce Jardin
/ La muerte en el jardin / UK: Evil Eden / The Diamond
Hunters / USA: Death in the Garden / Gina, Luis Buñuel,
France / Mexico) were brought to the screen.
Filmography
1964 L’Année du Bac (co-director with Maurice Delbez;
also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)