Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

802 • PÉCLET, GEORGES
1982 On n’est pas sorti de l’Auberge (also co-producer,
actor)
1983 Les Branchés à Saint-Tropez (also screenwriter,
dialogist, delegate producer, actor)
1985 Brigade des Mœurs (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist, delegate producer)
1986 Deux Enfoirés à Saint-Tropez (also screenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist, delegate producer)
1987 On se calme et on boit frais à Saint-Tropez (also
co-screenwriter, delegate producer)
PÉCLET, GEORGES (Prosper Désiré Péclet /
July 27, 1897, La Brillanne, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence,
France–January 11, 1974, Marseille, Bouches-du-
Rhône, France)
After studying at the Beaux-Arts and at the Marseille
Conservatory, he began acting onstage and in fi lms
(more than seventy movies from 1921 Âmes corses,
Paul Barlatier, Gaston Mouru de Lacotte, to 1946 La
Kermesse rouge, Paul Mesnier). He occasionally was
an assistant director (1927 Pardonnée, Jean Cassagne;
1947 Chemins sans Loi, Guillaume Radot). Other
credit (as technical adviser): 1944 Le Bal des Passants
(Guillaume Radot).
Filmography
1928 Rayon de Soleil (co-director with Jean Gourguet;
also actor)
1929 Amour et Carrefour (also screenwriter, actor)
1948 La Grande Volière
1950 Le Grand Cirque (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
1951 Casabianca / USA: Pirate Submarine (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1952 Les Révoltés du Danaé
1954 Tabor (also screenwriter)
1957 Du Sang sous le Chapiteau (also co-dialogist)
1958 Les Gaietés de l’Escadrille (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
1963 L’Espionne sera à Nouméa (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; shot in 1960)
PÉGUY, ROBERT (Marcel Robert Péguy / December
14, 1883, Paris, France–July 21, 1968, Paris,
France)
Having trained at the Paris Conservatory, he briefl y
played onstage. The cousin of poet and writer Charles
Péguy and a poet himself under the pseudonym of
Marcel Robert, he was the son-in-law of producer
Léon Gaumont. Filmmaker Emile Cohl suggested that
Gaumont hire him as a screenwriter (1908 Les Agents
tels qu’on nous les représente et les Agents tels qu’ils sont,
short, Louis Feuillade). He also occasionally worked
as an actor (1909 Cyrano de Bergerac, short, Jean
Durand) and assistant director and adapter (1923 La
Neige sur les Pas, Henri Etiévant; 1927 Croquette ou
Une Histoire de Cirque, Louis Mercanton).
Filmography
1909 Le Fils de l’Esclave / Fils d’Esclave
1910 La Fille du Pêcheur (as Marcel Robert)
Le Secret de l’X mystérieux (as Marcel Robert)
Jim Crow
1912 X le Mystérieux: La Maison blanche (short; as
Marcel Robert)
1913 Une Fantaisie de Miss Edith
Au Secours
L’Homme aux deux Visages
Madame Satan (also screenwriter as Marcel
Robert)
1914 L’Escarpin verni (short; as Marcel Robert; also
screenwriter)
1915 Au Pays de la Mort (also screenwriter; as Marcel
Robert)
1920 Être aimé pour soi-même
Nine ou La Jeune Fille au Masque
1922 L’Aviateur masqué (eight episodes: “L’Enjeu,”
“Dans les Airs,” “Les Ailes brisées,” “La Revanche
de Hoffer,” “Faute de Jeunesse,” “La
Journée des Dupes,” “Le Réveil d’une Intelligence,”
“Les Ailes d’Amour”)
Le Crime de Monique (also screenwriter, adapter)
1923 Le Vol (also screenwriter, adapter)
1924 Paul et Virginie
Kithnou (co-director with Henri Etiévant)
1926 600000 Francs par Mois (co-director with
Nicolas Koline)
1927 Muche / Je ne comprends pas (also screenwriter)
1928 Paris-New York-Paris
1929 Embrassez-moi (also screenwriter, adapter)
Les Mufl es
La Tentation d’un jeune Homme vertueux
1930 Au Coin perdu (short)
1931 La Maison jaune de Rio (French-language version
of Karl Grune’s Das gelbe Haus des King-
Fu; Germany / France)
Son Altesse l’Amour (French-language version
of Joe May’s Ihre Majestät die Liebe; Germany)
Amour et Business (medium-length)