Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

676 • MAMY, JEAN
The son of a stockbroker father who committed suicide
in 1930, he was raised by his mother and maternal
grandmother after the separation of his parents
in 1905. One of the most famous French novelists of
the fi rst half of the twentieth century (1926 La Tentation
de l’Occident; 1928 Les Conquérants; 1930 La Voie
royale; 1933 La Condition humaine; 1935 Le Temps du
Mépris; 1937 L’Espoir; 1943 Les Noyers de l’Altenburg),
he joined the Spanish Republicans during the civil war
in 1937 and became colonel of the Spanish escadrille
he founded. A Resistant during World War II, he was
a minister of state in General de Gaulle’s government
(1958–1959) and then France’s fi rst minister
of cultural affairs (1959–1969). He authored an autobiography
in 1967 (Les Anti-mémoires, Gallimard). He
appeared as himself in the documentaries El congreso
internacional de los escritores en defensa de la cultura
(Julio Bris, Spain) and André Malraux, la Légende du
Siècle (TV, Claude Santelli).
Filmography
1945 L’Espoir / UK and USA: Days of Hope (also
original novel, screenwriter, co-adapter; shot
in 1938–1939)
MAMY, JEAN (July 8, 1902, Chambéry, Savoie,
France–March 29, 1949, Arcueil, Val-de-Marne,
France)
From 1920 to 1931, he was an actor with Charles
Dullin’s theatrical group. After playing in a few movies
(1924 Entracte, short, René Clair; 1925 Veille d’Armes,
Jacques de Baroncelli; 1928 Maldone / USA: Misdeal,
also location manager, Jean Grémillon), he worked
as an editor (1929 Gardiens de Phare / USA: The
Lighthouse Keepers, Jean Grémillon; 1930 Les Amants
de Minuit, Marc Allégret, Augusto Genina; 1931 Le
Blanc et le Noir, Robert Florey; L’Amour à l’Américaine
/ USA: American Love, Claude Heymann, Pàl Fejös;
Mam’zelle Nitouche, Marc Allégret; On purge Bébé,
short, Jean Renoir; Le Collier, short, Marc Allégret;
On opère sans Douleur, short, Jean Tarride; Les Quatre
Jambes, medium-length, Marc Allégret; 1932 La Petite
Chocolatière, Marc Allégret; Fanny, Marc Allégret; Seul,
short, Jean Tarride; 1933 L’Agonie des Aigles / USA:
The Death Agony of the Eagles, Roger Richebé; 1934
Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, Jean Tarride; Minuit,
Place Pigalle, Roger Richebé; 1936 Mister Flow / USA:
Mr. Flow, Robert Siodmak; 1937 Un Déjeuner de Soleil,
Marcel Cravenne; L’Habit vert, Roger Richebé) and
production manager (1935 Koenigsmark / USA: Crimson
Dynasty, Maurice Tourneur; 1939 Dédé la Musique,
André Berthomieu). Overhelmed by the rout of
1940, he became a convinced Petainist and published
articles in collaborationist newspapers under the
pseudonym of Paul Riche. He notably was chief editor
of L’Appel. A former Freemason, he directed the
antimasonic medium-length Forces occultes, in which
he denounced the ascendancy of Freemasonry over
French society and its supposed responsibility in the
defeat. In August 1944, his mother was arrested by
the FFI (French Resistance), and he gave himself up.
He had to wait for four years to be judged and then
sentenced to death. He was shot in March 1949. A
playwright, he also authored poems in jail that were
collected by his son and published in Swiss in 1963
(Les Barreaux d’Or).
Filmography
1931 Baleydier
1933 Le Chemin du Bonheur
1943 Forces occultes (medium-length; as Paul Riche;
also adapter, dialogist)
MANCHEZ, MARCEL
A former artistic director (1923 Margot, Guy du Fresnay),
he also wrote the screenplay of Moune et son
Notaire (Hubert Bourlon, 1932).
Filmography
1924 Claudine et le Poussin / Le Temps d’aimer (also
screenwriter, producer)
Quelqu’un dans l’Autre (also screenwriter, producer)
1926 Mon Frère Jacques (also screenwriter, producer)
La Tournée Farigoule (also screenwriter)
1929 La Dame de Bronze et le Monsieur de Cristal
MANIGOT, JEAN-JACQUES
Filmography
1966 Batouk (unreleased)
MANNING, HAROLD P.
Besides his own directoring work, he played in a
few fi lms (1989 Cinéphiles 2-Eric a disparu, Louis
Skorecki; 2005 El Cantor, also co-screenwriter, Joseph
Morder).