Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Hot in Hell / USA: A Monkey in Winter, Henri Verneuil;
1963 Mélodie en Sous-Sol / Colpo grosso al casino / UK:
Anyone Can Win / The Big Snatch / USA: Any Number
Can Win, Henri Verneuil, France / Italy; Le Jour et
l’Heure / Il giorno e l’ora / UK: Today We Live / USA:
The Day and the Hour, René Clément, France / Italy;
Peau de Banane / Buccia di banana / USA: Banana Peel,
Marcel Ophüls, France / Italy; 1964 Cent Mille Dollars
au Soleil / Centomila dollari al sole / UK and USA:
Greed in the Sun, Henri Verneuil, France / Italy; 1965
Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine / L’uomo di Hong
Kong / UK: Up to His Ears / USA: Chinese Adventures in
China, Philippe de Broca, France / Italy; 1967 La Vingtcinquième
Heure / La venticinquesima ora / UK and
USA: The 25th Hour, Henri Verneuil, France / Italy /
Yugoslavia; 1968 La Bataille de San Sébastian / I cannoni
di San Sebastian / Los canones de San Sebastian / USA:
Guns for San Sebastian, Henri Verneuil, France / Italy /
Mexico; 1969 La Vie, l’Amour, la Mort / La vita, l’amore,
la morte / USA: Life Love Death, also co-adapter,
co-dialogist, France / Italy; L’Arbre de Noël / L’albero
di Natale / USA: The Christmas Tree / US TV: When
Wolves Cry, Terence Young, France / Italy; Un Homme
qui me plaît / Un tipo che mi piace / UK: A Man I Like
/ USA: Love Is a Funny Thing, Claude Lelouch, also coscreenwriter,
France / Italy; Le Voyou / Voyou—La canaglia
/ UK: Simon the Swiss / USA: The Crook, Claude
Lelouch, also co-adapter, France / Italy; 1971 Smic
Smac Smoc, Claude Lelouch; Bonaparte et la Révolution,
Abel Gance, also actor in additional scenes; 1972
L’aventure c’est l’Aventure / L’avventura è l’avventura /
UK and USA: Money Money Money, Claude Lelouch,
France / Italy), technical adviser (1950 Orphée / USA:
Orpheus, also assistant director, Jean Cocteau; 1951
Présentation de la Beauce à Notre-Dame de Chartres,
documentary, short, Jacques Berthier; 1960 Le Testament
d’Orphée ou Ne me demandez pas pourquoi / Le
Testament d’Orphée / USA: The Testament of Orpheus,
Jean Cocteau), co-director (1961 Tout l’Or du Monde
/ Tutto l’oro del mondo, René Clair, France / Italy;
1965 Les Fêtes galantes / Serbarile galante, René Clair,
France / Romania), and delegate producer (1969 Le
Maître du Temps, Jean-Daniel Pollet; 1971 Ca n’arrive
qu’aux Autres / Tempo d’amore / USA: It Only Happens
to Others, Nadine Trintignant, France / Italy; 2000
La Bicyclette bleue / USA: The Blue Bicycle, 3 90',
Thierry Binisti). He authored two autobiographical
books (2003 Derrière la Caméra . . . avec Jean Cocteau:
Entretiens avec Monique Bourdin, Horizon Illimité;
2005 Merci la Vie! Aventures cinématographiques, Le
PINOTEAU, JACK • 821
Cherche-Midi Editeur, reedited in 2007 by Ramsay).
He is the brother of director Jack Pinoteau (b. 1923)
and actress Arlette Merry (b. 1918).
Filmography
1960 Manureva (short)
1968 L’Enfant seul (short; also screenwriter)
1970 L’Arrêt (short)
Iran (documentary; short)
1973 Le Silencieux / L’uomo che non seppe tacere /
UK: Escape from Nowhere / USA: The Silent One
/ US TV: The Great Manhunt (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1974 La Gifl e / Lo schiaffo / UK and USA: The Slap
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France /
Italy)
1976 Le Grand Escogriffe / Il genio (also co-screenwriter;
France / Italy)
1979 L’Homme en Colère / Jigsaw / USA: The Angry
Man (also co-screenwriter; France / Canada)
1980 La Boum / USA: The Party (also co-screenwriter)
1982 La Boum 2 (also co-screenwriter)
1984 La 7e Cible (also co-screenwriter)
1988 L’Etudiante (also co-screenwriter)
1991 La Neige et le Feu (also co-screenwriter)
1994 Cache Cash (also co-screenwriter)
1997 Les Palmes de M. Schutz (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
2005 L’Abbé Pierre, une Vie pour les Autres (documentary)
PINOTEAU, JACK (Jack Albert Louis Charles Ningler
/ September 20, 1923, Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines,
France–)
The son of location manager Lucien Pinoteau, he entered
fi lms as an actor (1944 Le Carrefour des Enfants
perdus / UK and USA: Children of Chaos, also assistant
director, Léo Joannon). Then he worked as a property
master and assistant cameraman before joining the
airborne as a war correspondent (1944–1945). An assistant
director for ten years (1945 Les Enfants du Paradis
/ UK and USA: Children of Paradise, two episodes:
“Le Boulevard du Crime,” “L’Homme blanc,” Marcel
Carné, shot in 1943–1944; 1947 Panique / USA: Panic,
Julien Duvivier; Rêves d’Amour / USA: Dreams of Love,
Christian Stengel; 1948 Route sans Issue, Jean Stelli;
Rapide de Nuit, Marcel Blistène; 1949 Dernier Amour,
Jean Stelli; 1950 Envoi de Fleurs, Jean Stelli; On n’aime
qu’une Fois / La Caille, Jean Stelli; La Souricière, Henri