Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Barry
1950 Casimir / USA: Three Feet in a Bed
Meurtres / UK and USA: Three Sinners
1951 Caroline Chérie / USA: Dear Caroline
1952 Rendez-vous à Grenade
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Violettes impériales / Violetas imperiales (France
/ Spain)
1954 Les Révoltés de Lomanach / L’eroe della Vendea
(France / Italy)
La Belle Otéro / La Bella Otero (France / Italy)
1955 Il prigionero del re / Le Masque de Fer (codirector
with Giorgio Rivalta; Italy / France)
1956 La Châtelaine du Liban / La castellana del Libano
/ USA: The Lebanese Mission / US TV: Desert
Detour (France / Italy)
Le Chanteur de México / El cantor de Mexico
(France / Spain)
1958 Tabarin (also co-adapter; France / Italy)
Sérénade au Texas (also co-screenwriter)
1960 David e Golia / David et Goliath / USA: David
and Goliath (co-director with Ferdinando
Baldi; Italy / France)
1961 Il ratto delle Sabine / L’Enlèvement des Sabines /
USA: Romulus and the Sabines (Italy / France)
1965 Dernier Tiercé
POUCTAL, HENRI (1856, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre,
Seine-et-Marne, France–February 3, 1922, Paris,
France)
An actor at the Odéon and at André Antoine’s Théâtre
Libre, he was hired by Paul Gavault, the artistic
director of Le Film d’Art, in 1908 and played in a
few fi lms (1909 La Grande Bretèche / USA: The Great
Breach, short, André Calmettes; 1910 L’Echarpe,
short, André Calmettes, Henri Desfontaines; 1911
Le Pardon, short, André Calmettes; Jésus de Nazareth,
short, André Calmettes, Henri Desfontaines;
La Fin d’un Joueur, short, André Calmettes, Henri
Etiévant). A fi lm director since 1908, he became an
artistic director of Le Film d’Art in 1913 and helped
Abel Gance start fi lming one of his screenplays
(L’Infi rmière, 1914).
Filmography
1908 Le Curé de Campagne (short)
1910 L’Héritière (short; unconfi rmed; movie directed
by André Calmettes or Henri Pouctal)
La Retraite (short; co-director with André
Calmettes)
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Vitellius / USA: Vitellius and Heliogabalus
(short)
Werther (short)
1911 Camille Desmoulins (short; unconfi rmed; movie
directed by Henri Calmettes or Henri Pouctal;
also screenwriter)
Le Chevalier d’Essex (short; co-director with
André Calmettes; also co-screenwriter, actor)
Le Colonel Chabert (short; co-director with
André Calmettes; also screenwriter, adapter)
Décadence (short; co-director with André
Calmettes)
La Jacquerie, Révolution paysanne de 1358
(short)
Le Pardon (short; also screenwriter, actor)
Pour l’Empereur (short; co-director with André
Calmettes; also co-screenwriter)
Le Roman de la Momie (short)
Une Conquête (short; also screenwriter)
L’Usurpateur (short; co-director with André
Calmettes)
1912 Blanchette (short)
La Camargo (short)
Chaînes rompues (short)
La Comtesse Sarah (short)
La Dame aux Camélias / USA: Camille (short;
co-director with André Calmettes; also
screenwriter, adapter, actor)
La Femme qui assassina (short)
La Grande Marnière (short)
Joséphine impératrice / Impératrice et Reine
(short)
Les Plumes de Paon (short)
Pour la Couronne (short; also screenwriter,
adapter)
La Robe rouge (short)
Le Saltimbanque (short)
Le Supplice d’une Mère / Le Calvaire d’une
Femme (short)
Théodora (short; also screenwriter, adapter)
1913 Les Aventures du Chevalier de Faublas (short)
Claudie, Fille d’Auberge / Fille d’Auberge (short)
Colette (short)
Danton (short)
Denise (short; also screenwriter, adapter)
Frères ennemis (short; unconfi rmed; movie
directed by Henri Andréani, René Leprince,
or Henri Pouctal)
L’Honneur (short)
Jack a un Flirt dans la Mode (short)