Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1979 Un Balcon en Forêt (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1985 Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, actor)
Television Filmography
1958 L’Ecole des Maris
1959 Plaisir des Arts (documentary)
1960 En votre Âme et Conscience (episode “Le Crime
de Madame Achet”)
Cinq Colonnes à la Une (documentary; episode
“Qu’en pense Alger?”)
1962 Terre des Arts (documentary; episodes “L’Art
populaire breton,” “L’Art réaliste en France:
Courbet,” “L’Art abstrait en Question,”
“Velasquez,” “Goya,” “Suite baroque,” “L’Art
du Mexique I & II”)
1963 Tous ceux qui tombent
Cinq Colonnes à la Une (documentary; episode
“Printemps à Dachau”)
1964 Sans Merveille
La Chambre (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1965 Cinéastes de notre Temps (documentary; episode
“Max Ophuls ou Le Plaisir de tourner”)
Huis clos (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1966 La Conversation
Dis Joe (short)
1967 Les Anges exterminés
Bajazet
1968 Délire à Deux
L’Atelier de Vieira da Silva (short)
Oui, non ou indifférent (documentary)
Ionesco à Zurich (documentary)
1969 Autour de Mortin
1970 Reportages sur un Squelette ou Masques et Bergamasques
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1975 Je, sur le Pont Neuf (documentary)
1978 Le Chien de Munich (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1981 Une Mère russe (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
Washington, Cité fantôme (two-part documentary)
1983 Par Ordre du Roy (3 52': segments “Le Paravent
de la Princesse,” “Madame Tiquet,” “La
Marquise des Anges”; also co-screenwriter)
Le Scénario défendu (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Meurtre avec Préméditation
MITRY, JEAN • 727
1984 Péchés originaux (episode “J’ai comme une
Musique dans la Tête”)
Le Scénario défendu (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1987 L’Heure Simenon (episode “Strip-Tease”;
France / Switzerland / Germany / Austria /
Netherlands)
1989 Mémoire en Ricochets (documentary)
1990 L’Invitée clandestine (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
MITRY, JEAN (Jean René-Pierre Goetgheluck Le
Rouge Tillard des Acres de Préfontaines / November
7, 1904, Soissons, Aisne, France–January 18, 1988,
Paris, France)
A movie buff since childhood, he started his professional
life as a press drawer and commercial artist. He
ran fi lm clubs and wrote in the fi rst French magazines
(Cinégraphie, Pour vous, Cinéa). In the late 1920s, he frequented
studios as an extra, trainee assistant director
(1927 Napoléon / Napoléon vu par Abel Gance / USA: Napoléon
/ Abel Gance's Napoleon, Abel Gance), and actor
(1932 La Nuit du Carrefour, Jean Renoir). In 1936, he cofounded
with Georges Franju and Henri Langlois the
French Cinematheque. Known mostly as a fi lm theoretician
and historian, he authored many books, including
a Filmographie universelle (thirty volumes published
from 1963 to 1972, IDHEC), Dictionnaire du Cinéma
(Larousse, 1963), and Histoire du Cinéma: Art et Industrie
(three volumes, Presses Universitaires de France, 1967,
1969, 1973). He directed fi lms from 1949 to 1962, cowrote
the screenplay of Le Quatrième Sexe / USA: The
Fourth Sex (also dialogist, Michel Wichard, José Benazeraf),
and appeared as himself in documentaries (1968
Cinéastes de notre Temps, episode “La première Vague,”
Noël Burch, Jean-André Fieschi; 1980 Une Approche
d’Alain Resnais, Révolutionnaire discret, Michel Leclerc).
He was a professor at the IDHEC.
Filmography
1929 Paris Cinéma (documentary, short)
1949 Pacifi c 231 (documentary; short; also screenwriter)
1950 Le Paquebot Liberté (documentary; short)
1951 Rêverie pour Claude Debussy (documentary;
short)
En Bateau (documentary; short)
Rêveries de Debussy (documentary; short)
1952 Images pour Debussy (documentary; short)