Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1998 Un Grand Cri d’Amour (also original play,
screenwriter, actor)
2004 L’Ex-Femme de ma Vie / USA: The Ex-Wife of My
Life (also original play, screenwriter, actor)
2008 Cliente (also author of original novel, screenwriter,
actor)
BALDUCCI, RICHARD (February 10, 1929, Paris,
France–)
The son of a carpenter, he learned to work wood.
After World War II, he became a journalist and was
hired by Pierre Lazareff as fi lm columnist in France-
Soir. A press attaché in the 1960s, he made some
occasional appearances on-screen (1960 A Bout de
Souffl e / UK: By a Tether / UK and USA: Breathless,
Jean-Luc Godard; 1993 Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède,
TV documentary, Claude Ventura, Xavier Villetard).
He also was author of original ideas (1963 Les
Saintes-Nitouches / Le ragazze di buona famiglia / UK:
Wild Living / USA: Young Girls of Good Families, Pierre
Montazel, France / Italy; Cherchez l’Idole / Sciarada
alla francese, also co-screenwriter, Michel Boisrond,
France / Italy; 1965 Le Gendarme à New York / Tre
gendarmi a New York, Jean Girault, France / Italy),
author of original characters (1979 Le Gendarme
et les Extra-Terrestres / UK video: The Gendarme
and the Creatures from Outer Space, Jean Girault;
1982 Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes, Jean Girault,
Tony Aboyantz), screenwriter (1964 Le Gendarme
de Saint-Tropez / Una ragazza a Saint-Tropez / UK
and USA: The Gendarme of St. Tropez, Jean Girault,
France / Italy; 1979 Les Bidasses en Vadrouille, also
co-adapter and co-dialogist, Christian Caza = Michel
Ardan), co-screenwriter (1968 Le Gendarme se marie
/ Calma ragazze oggi mi sposo / USA: The Gendarme
Gets Married, Jean Girault, France / Italy; 1970 Le
Gendarme en Balade / 6 gendarmi in fuga, Jean Girault,
France / Italy; 1978 Général . . . nous voilà!, also coadapter,
Jacques Besnard; 1979 Les Joyeuses Colonies
de Vacances, also co-dialogist, Michel Gérard; 1980
Voulez-vous un Bébé Nobel?, also adapter, dialogist,
Robert Pouret; 1981 Traumbus / Austern mit Senf / La
Fac en Délire, Franz Antel, West Germany / France),
co-adapter and co-dialogist (1976 Le Jour de Gloire
/ Ein Priester, ein Panzer und ein Haufen müder Landser,
Jacques Besnard, France / West Germany), coadapter
and dialogist (1984 Charlots Connection; Jean
Couturier), and technical adviser (1983 En Cas de
Guerre mondiale, je fi le à l’Etranger, also actor, Jacques
Ardouin). He authored several novels (1976 Le Café
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des Veuves, J. Dullis, reedited in 1980 by Mengès; 1977
Tu seras la plus riche du Cimetière, Presses de la Cité;
1980 Salut la Puce, La Table Ronde; 2003 Autopsie
d’une Criminelle, Mélis edition; 2006 Princesses de
Paris, Hors-Collection) and a monograph on Charles
Aznavour (2002 Charles Aznavour: Confi dences d’un
Enfant de Bohème, Editions Christian Pirot).
Filmography
1966 Le Petit Cheval de Bois (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1970 L’Amour (also co-screenwriter; shot in 1968)
1969 La Honte de la Famille (also co-screenwriter)
1972 L’Odeur des Fauves / L’odore delle belve / US
video: Scandal Man (also co-screenwriter;
France / Italy)
Trop jolies pour être Honnêtes / Quatre Souris
pour un Hold-Up / Perché mammà ti manda solo?
/ Demasiado bonitas para ser Honestas / US
video: The Powder Puff Gang / Seduction Squad
(also co-screenwriter; France / Italy / Spain)
1973 Dans la Poussière du Soleil / Il sole nella polvere
/ UK: Lust in the Sun / USA: Dust in the Sun
(also co-screenwriter; France / Italy; shot in
1970)
1974 Par ici la Monnaie (also co-screenwriter, dialogist)
1975 Les Machines à Sous / Les Ravageuses de Sexe
(as Bruno Baldwyn)
1976 La Face cachée d’Hitler (documentary; unreleased)
1981 Prends ta Rolls . . . et va pointer (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1982 N’oublie pas ton Père au Vestiaire (also screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1983 Salut la Puce (also author of original novel, coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
On l’appelle Catastrophe (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1985 Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez (also screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
Y a pas le Feu (also adapter, dialogist)
1986 Banana’s Boulevard (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
BALEKDJIAN, FRÉDÉRIC (April 19, 1964, Le
Raincy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France–)
Having graduated from the Louis Lumière fi lm school
(image department) in 1987, he made his directing
debut in 1990.