Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

636 • LÉVITTE, JEAN
2006 En Souvenir de nous (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
Television Filmography
1979 Les Naufragés du Havre (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1993 Jeux d’Enfants (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1995 Le Mur aux Fées (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
LÉVITTE, JEAN (1916, France–)
A co-screenwriter (1946 Christine se marie, also dialogist,
René Le Hénaff; La Fille du Diable, Henri Decoin;
L’Assassin n’est pas coupable, also co-dialogist, René
Delacroix; 1949 El mago, co-author of the original
story, Miguel M. Delgado, Spain; 1950 On n’aime qu’une
Fois, Jean Stelli; Le 84 prend des Vacances, as co-adapter,
dialogist, Léo Joannon; 1952 Drôle de Noce, also coadapter,
co-dialogist, Léo Joannon; 1953 Virgile, as
co-adapter, Carlo-Rim; 1956 OSS 117 n’est pas mort
/ USA: OSS 117 Is Not Dead, also co-adapter, codialogist,
Jean Sacha; 1957 Les Fanatiques / I fanatici
/ USA: A Bomb for the Dictator, also co-adapter, codialogist,
Alex Joffé, France / Italy; 1959 Geheimaktion
schwarze Kapelle / R.P.Z. appelle Berlin / I sicari di Hitler
/ USA: The Black Chapel, Ralph Habib, West Germany
/ France / Italy; 1963 La Cuisine au Beurre / Cucino
al burro / USA: My Wife’s Husband, Gilles Grangier,
France / Italy), he directed a couple of soft-core fi lms
in the 1970s.
Filmography
1947 Six Heures à perdre (co-director with Alex
Joffé)
1971 Kiss
LÉVY, BERNARD-HENRI (November 5, 1948,
Beni-Saf, Oran, France [now Algeria]–)
A philosopher and writer, he had sporadic contacts
with cinema. He appeared as an actor in a TV movie
(1978 Aurélien) and a video short (2007 Democrazy /
Demopazzia, also script collaborator, Francesco Vezzoli,
Italy), co-directed a documentary and a feature
fi lm, and co-produced Serbie, Année Zéro / Srbija godine
nulle / Serbia, Year Zero (Goran Markovic, also actor as
himself, France / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) and
Ma Mère / Meine Mutter (Christophe Honoré, France
/ Austria). His book American Vertigo was brought to
the screen by Michko Netchak in 2007. He is the
companion of French actress and director Arielle
Dombasle (b. 1953).
Filmography
1994 Bosna! (documentary; co-director with Alain
Ferrari; also co-screenwriter, narrator)
1997 Le Jour et la Nuit / El dia y la noche / US video:
Day and Night (also co-screenwriter, codialogist;
France / Belgium / Spain / Canada /
Mexico)
LÉVY, JACQUES (1938–)
Filmography
1966 Le Filet de Soie (unreleased)
LÉVY, JÉRÔME
A sound engineer since 1977, he directed a couple of
shorts and one feature fi lm.
Filmography
1993 Opération Gringo (short; also screenwriter)
1994 Le Journal d’Hervé (short; also screenwriter)
Philatélie, mon Amie (short; also screenwriter)
2000 Bon Plan (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
LÉVY, LORRAINE (January 29, 1964, Boulogne-
Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
While studying literature and law, she founded a
stage company for which she wrote plays (1988–
1994). Jean-Loup Dabadie hired her to write an unfi
lmed TV series. Mostly a screenwriter, she authored
many episodes of Joséphine, Ange gardien and about
twenty TV movies.
Filmography
2004 La Première Fois que j’ai eu 20 Ans (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
2007 Dix Films pour en parler (short; co-director
only)
2008 Mes Amis, mes Amours (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
LÉVY, PATRICK (October 6, 1960, Algiers, Algeria–)
After attending acting courses at the Cours Florent,
he started out as a stage actor and director (he notably
directed David Mamet's and Jerry Schatzberg’s
plays). Seen in a few fi lms (1986 On a volé Charlie
Spencer!, Francis Huster; 1997 K, Alexandre Arcady),