Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

846 • QUEYSANNE, BERNARD
QUEYSANNE, BERNARD (June 9, 1944, Rabat,
Morocco–)
He started as a trainee assistant and an assistant
editor for French television before entering fi lms
as a still photographer in 1965 (Le 17ème Ciel / UK:
Seventeenth Heaven, Serge Korber). He soon moved
behind the camera as an assistant director working
with Robert Enrico (1967 Les Aventuriers / Tre avventurieri
/ UK and USA: The Last Adventure, France / Italy;
1968 Ho! / Criminal Face, France / Italy; 1971 Boulevard
du Rhum / La via del rhum / El bulevar del ron / USA:
Rum Runners, France / Italy / Spain; 1972 Les Caïds /
UK: The Hell Below), Jean-Gabriel Albicocco (1970 Le
Coeur fou; 1971 Faire l’Amour: De la pilule à l’Ordinateur
/ Emmanuelle et ses Sœurs, segment “Emmanuelle,”
France / West Germany / Sweden / Japan), Georges
Franju (1970 La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret), Philippe Labro
(1973 L’Héritier / L’erede / USA: The Inheritor / The
Exterminator, France / Italy), and Robert Benayoun
(1974 Sérieux comme le Plaisir).
Filmography
1971 La Sologne d’Alain Fournier (documentary;
short)
1972 Le Concorde (documentary; short)
Le F.I.A.P. (documentary; short)
Claude Sautet (documentary; short)
1973 Serge Reggiani (documentary; short)
1974 Un Homme qui dort (co-director with Georges
Pérec; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1975 Le Travail de l’écrivain: Gustave Flaubert (documentary;
short)
1977 Le Diable au Cœur / USA: The Devil in the Heart
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1978 L’Amant de Poche / UK: Lover Boy / USA: The
Pocket Lover (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1977 L’œil de l’Autre (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1978 Il était un Musicien (episode “Monsieur
Schumann”; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
André Malraux, Aventure, Représentation, Métamorphose
(documentary)
1979 Les 400 Coups de Virginie (6 52')
1980 Irène et sa Folie (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1982 La Tendresse (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1983 Diane Lanster (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1984 Hélas Alice est lasse (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1985 Mademoiselle B (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
1986 Une Occasion en Or (episode “Le Frénétique”)
1987 Crimes passionnels (episode “Antoinette”; also
co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1991 V comme Vengeance (episodes “Plagiat et
Meurtre,” shot in 1989; “Le Billard écarlate”;
also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1995 Alfred Hitchcock: Le Maître fait ses Gammes
(documentary)
Thomas Narcejac (documentary)
Autour de Vertigo (documentary)
1996 François Nourissier: Autoportrait (documentary;
also co-screenwriter)
Un Siècle d’Ecrivains (documentary; episode
“Maurice Leblanc: A l’Ombre des Lupins”;
co-director with Nicole Berkmans; also coscreenwriter)
1999 Propos amicaux à propos d’espèces d’Espaces
(documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer,
sound)
Georges Pérec: Lire-traduire (documentary; also
screenwriter)
2000 Un Siècle d’Ecrivains (documentary; episode
“Francis Carco”; also co-screenwriter)
2001 Les Dessous de la Terre (documentary; episodes
“Un Parfum d’Eternité,” “Charentic Park”;
also screenwriter)
Voyages, Voyages (documentary; episode “Fes et
Meknès”; also screenwriter, cinematographer)
2002 Voyages, Voyages (documentary; episode “Bruxelles”;
also screenwriter, cinematographer)
2004 L’Hôtel s’amuse (6 26' documentary; also
screenwriter)
2005 Bons Baisers des Tropiques (6 26'; also
screenwriter)
QUIGNON, ROLAND J. (Roland Jean Quignon,
December 19, 1897, Paris, France–May 12, 1984,
Nesles-la-Vallée, France)
Having trained at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-
Arts, he attended painter Fernand Cormon’s courses
before working as an art director for stage (he
also took some stage directing lessons from Firmin
Gémier). From 1933 (Son Autre Amour, Constant
Rémy, Alfred Machard) to 1960 (Colère froide, André