Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

616 • LEDOUX, MATHIAS
1998 Une Chance sur 2 (also co-screenwriter, camera
operator)
1999 La Fille sur le Pont (also camera operator)
2000 La Veuve de Saint-Pierre / The Widow of St. Pierre
/ USA: The Widow of Saint-Pierre (also adapter,
camera operator; France / Canada)
2001 Félix et Lola (also co-screenwriter, camera
operator)
2002 Rue des Plaisirs / German TV: Strasse der heimlichen
Freuden (also co-screenwriter, camera
operator; France / Germany)
L’Homme du Train / Das zweite Leben des
Monsieur Manesquier / Man on the Train / USA:
The Man on the Train (also camera operator;
France / Germany / UK / Switzerland)
2004 Confi dences trop intimes / UK and USA: Intimate
Strangers (also co-adapter, camera operator)
Dagora—Ouvrons les Yeux (documentary; also
camera operator)
2006 Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la Vie / USA: Friends
Forever
Mon Meilleur Ami / UK: My Best Friend (also
co-screenwriter)
2007 Dix Films pour en parler (short)
Television Filmography
1988 Sueurs froides (episode “Toi, si je voulais”; also
screenwriter)
LEDOUX, MATHIAS (July 3, 1953, Suresnes, Hautsde-Seine,
France–March 10, 2005, Paris, France)
Having graduated from the Ecole Nationale Louis
Lumière in 1972, he started as a camera operator
for the O.R.T.F (French TV at the time) and SFP
(a production society that worked for TV) (1973–
1979). He directed two shorts before working as a
cameraman for several TV directors, including the
most innovative of all, Jean-Christophe Averty. In
the 1980s and 1990s, he directed commercials and
musical videos for Michel Jonasz, Johnny Hallyday,
and Vanessa Paradis.
Filmography
1972 Les Yeux en Face des Trous (short)
1978 Le Retour (short)
1985 Le Maître-Chanteur (short)
1991 Les Secrets professionnels du Docteur Appfelglück
(shot in 1990)
2000 En Face / UK: Across the Room
2003 Three Blind Mice (France / UK)
Television Filmography
1981 Tistou les Pouces verts
1987 Objectif Nul (TV series)
1988 TVN 595, la Télévision des Nuls (TV show)
1989 ABCD Nuls (61 5')
1990 Les Nuls, l’Emission (56 60')
Ne m’oubliez pas: Hommage à Bernard Blier
(documentary)
Warhol: Nothing Special (documentary)
1993 Marcel Duchamp, même (documentary)
1994 Ma Sœur est un chic Type
Le Misanthrope
1996 Elle s’appelait Françoise (documentary; codirector
with Anne Andreu)
1998 The 3 Tenors, Paris 1998 / USA: Three Tenors ’98
World Cup Paris (documentary)
1999 Les Vagabondes du Ciel (documentary)
La Belle Hélène
2001 Caméra Café (TV series; co-director only)
2003 Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris (documentary)
Monica: Irrésistible (documentary)
Claude Berri: Le dernier Nabab (documentary)
2005 Les Pianos de la Nuit (musical documentary;
co-director only)
LEDUC, JEAN (December 27, 1922, Estrées-Saint-
Denis, Oise, France–October 12, 1996, Paris, France)
He made his apprenticeship as a trainee assistant
director (1948 Les Dernières Vacances / USA: The Last
Vacation) and assistant director (1951 Le Mariage de
Madamoiselle Beulemans / Fientje Beulemans, André
Cerf, France / Belgium). He also played in a couple of
fi lms (1943 Adieu Léonard, Pierre Prévert; 1968 The
Girl on a Motorcycle / La Motocyclette / USA: Naked
Under Leather, Jack Cardiff, UK / France).
Filmography
1950 Une Chanson pour “Ameland” (short; co-director
with Pierre Mignot)
Soldats d’Eau douce (short)
1956 Une Tâche diffi cile (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1958 Ligne de Vie (short; also co-screenwriter, cinematographer)
1963 Transit à Saïgon / USA: Incident in Saigon (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1964 Irei a Almoçageme (documentary; short; Portugal)