Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

856 • REGGIANI, SIMON
Plaisir des Neiges (short)
Sur toute la Gamme (short)
1956 Honoré de Marseille
L’Art d’être Papa (short; also screenwriter)
Le Téléphone (short)
1957 Comme un Cheveu sur la Soupe / USA: Crazy in
the Noodle (also co-screenwriter)
Rendez-vous avec Maurice Chevalier No. 1
(documentary; short)
Rendez-vous avec Maurice Chevalier No. 2
(documentary; short)
Rendez-vous avec Maurice Chevalier No. 3
(documentary; short)
Rendez-vous avec Maurice Chevalier No. 4: Paris
(documentary; short)
Rendez-vous avec Maurice Chevalier No. 5: Soirs
de Paris (documentary; short)
Rendez-vous avec Maurice Chevalier No. 6: Une
Américaine à Paris (documentary; short)
1959 Cigarettes, Whisky et p’tites Pépées / Educande
al Tabarin / USA: Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild
Women (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)
1960 A Pleines Mains
1963 La Salamandre d’Or / Il paladino alla corte di
Francia (France / Italy)
Television Filmography
1966 Trois Etoiles en Touraine (also co-screenwriter)
REGGIANI, SIMON (September 23, 1961, Tours,
Indre-et-Loire, France–)
The son of actor and singer Serge Reggiani (1922–
2004), he grew up in the south of France. He entered
fi lms as an assistant cameraman at age fi fteen and
started an acting career in 1983 (L’addition, Denis
Amar). He co-wrote the screenplay of Mona et moi
(Patrick Grandperret, 1990).
Filmography
1989 Le Bateau Mouche (short; co-director with
Chris Campion)
1991 Zani (short; also screenwriter)
1993 De Force avec d’Autres (also screenwriter; shot
in 1990–1992)
2004 Basse Normandie (co-director with Patricia
Mazuy; also co-screenwriter)
RÉGNIER, GEORGES (April 17, 1913, Paris,
France–)
He was successively a co-cinematographer (1933
Trois Balles dans la Peau, Roger Lion; 1938 Carrefour,
Kurt Bernhardt), camera operator (1938 Retour à
l’Aube / USA: She Returned at Dawn, Henri Decoin),
and assistant director (1947 Panique / USA: Panic,
Julien Duvivier). He wrote several technical books,
including Le Cinéma d’Amateur (Editions Larousse /
Montel, 1969).
Filmography
1942 Manosque, Pays de Jean Giono (documentary;
short)
Cross Country (documentary; short)
1943 Au Pays de Sylvie (documentary; short)
1947 Paysans noirs / Famoro le Tyran (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
Monsieur Badin (short)
1948 Ceux du Tchad (short)
1949 Islam (documentary; short)
1950 Homme des Oasis (documentary; short)
1952 Le Voyage d’Abdallah (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1953 L’Univers d’Utrillo (documentary; short)
1954 Simple Conte des Causses (short)
1959 De Terre et de Mer (documentary; short)
1960 Petite Suite pour Jardin (documentary; short)
1961 Présence d’Albert Camus (documentary; short)
Television Filmography
1967 Les Sept de l’Escalier B. (13 25')
1970 Nanou (TV series; also screenwriter, dialogist)
1976 Celui qui ne te ressemble pas (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1981 La Randonnée (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1983 Pauvre Eros
RÉGO, LUIS (May 30, 1943, Lisbon, Portugal–)
Portuguese born, he went to Paris at age eighteen
and earned a living as a dishwasher and sheet cutter.
In 1965, he co-founded with Gérard Rinaldi, Donald
Rieubon, Jean Sarrus, and Gérard Filipelli a rock
group, Les Problèmes (he played rhythm guitar),
which became a comic musical band, Les Charlots,
in 1967. He made his acting debut with his friends in
1970 (La Grande Java, Philippe Clair) and co-starred
in several Charlots vehicles (including the box offi
ce hit Les Bidasses en Folie / UK: The Five Crazy
Boys, Claude Zidi). By 1974, he left the group and
played supporting roles in many comedies of the