Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

806 • PÉRIER, JEAN-MARIE
1998 Le Dernier Fils (also co-screenwriter)
2000 Que reste-t-il . . .
2004 Table rase (Belgium / France)
PÉRIER, JEAN-MARIE (Jean-Marie Pillu / February
1, 1940, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
The son of singer Henri Salvador (1917–2008) and
actress Jacqueline Porel (b. 1918), he was the legitimate
son of actor François Périer (1919–2002), who raised
him. He started as a photographer for such magazines
as Paris-Match (1958), Télé 7 Jours (1960), and Salut
les Copains (1962–1970) and was an occasional still
photographer (1967 Bang-Bang / L’ammazzo o la sposo,
Serge Piollet, France / Italy). He authored two autobiographies
(2001 L’Enfant gâté, Editions XO; 2004 Le
Temps d’apprendre à vivre, Editions XO), and his photographs
were gathered in several books (1995 Mes Années
60, Editions Filipacchi; 1999 Mes Années 60, tome
2, Editions Filipacchi, 2000 Mes Années 60: L’intégrale,
Editions Filipacchi; 2002 Flash, Editions Filipacchi; Des
Amis de tous Poils . . . des Chats, Agnès Vienot Editions).
He gave up cinema in the early 1980s to resume his
career as a photographer.
Filmography
1970 Tumuc Humac (also co-screenwriter, cocinematographer)
1974 Antoine et Sébastien (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1978 Sale Rêveur (also screenwriter)
1980 Téléphone public (documentary)
Television Filmography
1966 Les Enfants du Palais
1972 Pour une Pomme
1973 Témoignages (episodes “L’Homme assis,” “Un
Monstre”)
1993 Dutronc au Casino (documentary)
2000 Salut Sex! (documentary)
PÉRISSON, ALAIN (1945, Canada–)
Filmography
1973 Le Grand Sabordage (also co-screenwriter;
France / Canada; shot in 1971)
Le Monde était plein de Couleurs (also screenwriter)
Television Filmography
1976 Trois de Cœur (25 13'; co-director with Roger
Andrieux, Michel Picard, Jean-Pierre Richard)
PÉROL, GUY (March 22, 1929, Pionsat, Puyde-Dôme,
France–June 19, 2000, Ussel, Corrèze,
France)
A former journalist, he received many prizes for his
shorts before directing a couple of erotic comedies.
He also was a producer (1960 Le Songe des Chevaux
sauvages, short, Denys Colomb de Daunant), production
supervisor (1967 Le Treizième Caprice, Roger
Boussinot; Fruits amers / Frutti amari, Jacqueline Audry,
France / Italy), production manager (1968 Adolphe, ou
l’Âge tendre / Tanjas Geliebter / Adolf / UK: The Tender
Age / Adolphe or The Awkward Age, Bernard Toublanc-
Michel, France / Italy / Poland; 1984 Rue Barbare / USA:
Barbarous Street / Street of the Damned, Gilles Béhat),
and co-screenwriter (1969 Quarta parete / La Limite
du Péché / UK: Walls of Sin, Adriano Bolzoni, Italy /
France; 1983 Flics de Choc, Jean-Pierre Desagnat).
Filmography
1958 Catherine qui fut de Sienne (documentary;
short)
Corrida interdite (documentary; short)
1959 Voiles à Val (documentary; short)
1963 Paris, je t’aime (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1965 Petite Fleur de Pologne (documentary; short)
Karoko (documentary; short)
Chopin (documentary; short)
1973 Les Gourmandines / UK: Three into Sex Won’t
Go
1975 Le Commando des chauds Lapins (shot in
1973)
PERRET, LÉONCE (March 14, 1880, Niort, Deux-
Sèvres, France–August 12, 1935, Paris, France)
After completing his studies, he opted for a theatrical
career, starting with André Antoine at the Théâtre
Libre. Then the two men worked together at the
Odéon. His performance with the great actress
Réjane in Madame Sans-Gêne earned him huge success.
Hired by Léon Gaumont in 1907, he played in
many movies (1909 André Chénier, short, Louis Feuillade;
Le Festin de Balthazar, short, also screenwriter,
Louis Feuillade; Robert le Diable / USA: Robert the
Devil, short, Etienne Arnaud; 1910 Amphitryon, short,
Etienne Arnaud; Judith et Holopherne / USA: Judith and
Holopherne, short, Louis Feuillade; L’An Mil, short, Louis
Feuillade; Au Temps de la Chouannerie, short, Louis
Feuillade; Benvenuto Cellini, short, Etienne Arnaud; Les
Carbonari, short, Louis Feuillade; Christophe Colomb,
short, Etienne Arnaud; Le Demi-Solde, short, Etienne