Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

954 • TEBOUL, DAVID
/ UK: Asterix and Cleopatra, René Goscinny, France /
Belgium; 1971 Daisy Town, René Goscinny, France /
Belgium; 1976 Les Douze Travaux d’Astérix, René Goscinny
and Albert Uderzo; 1978 La Ballade des Dalton,
René Goscinny, Henri Gruel, and Morris; 1985 Astérix
et la Surprise de César / USA: Asterix Versus Caesar,
Gaëtan and Paul Brizzi) and several comedies (1963
La Foire aux Cancres, Louis Daquin; 1969 Trois Hommes
sur un Cheval, Marcel Moussy). He authored
two autobiographies: Mon Petit Bonhomme de Chemin—Souvenirs
provisoires (Editions Stock, 1975) and
Magic Ciné (Librairie Arthème-Fayard, 2005).
Filmography
1947 Le Chemin aux Images (short; co-director only;
also co-screenwriter)
1961 La Belle Américaine / UK: The American Beauty
/ USA: What a Chassis (co-director with Robert
Dhéry; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
actor)
1964 Allez France! / USA: The Counterfeit Constable
(co-director with Robert Dhéry; also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1972 Le Viager (also co-screenwriter)
1974 Les Gaspards / De rare snuiters / UK: The Holes /
USA: The Down-in-the-Hole Gang (also screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Belgium)
1979 La Gueule de l’Autre
1988 Bonjour l’Angoisse (also screenwriter, coadapter)
Television Filmography
1965 L’Arroseur arrosé (also co-screenwriter)
1967 Deux Romains en Gaule
1977 Le Passe-Muraille (also screenwriter, adapter)
1978 La Grâce (also screenwriter, adapter)
1982 Le Voyageur imprudent (also screenwriter,
adapter)
1984 Lucienne et le Boucher
1991 L’Huissier (also screenwriter, co-adapter)
Héloïse (also screenwriter, adapter)
1992 Un Beau petit milliard (also co-screenwriter)
Le Secret du petit Milliard (also co-screenwriter)
1997 Jean Carmet, la Liberté d’abord (documentary)
TEBOUL, DAVID
Filmography
2002 Yves Saint-Laurent: His Life and Times (documentary;
also screenwriter)
Yves Saint-Laurent: 5, Avenue Marceau 75116
Paris (documentary; also screenwriter)
2004 Simone Veil, une Histoire française (documentary)
2005 Bania (documentary; also screenwriter, cinematographer)
Television Filmography
2005 Histoire (s) d’Elle (documentary)
TÉCHINÉ, ANDRÉ (March 13, 1943, Valence
d’Agen, Tarn-et-Garonne, France–)
A former student at the IDHEC, he failed his fi nal
examination and became an assistant on the musical
TV show Discorama. In 1964, he joined the staff of
the fi lm magazine Les Cahiers du Cinéma, in which he
published criticism until 1967. He directed his fi rst
short in 1965 and was briefl y a stage director in 1969
(Chantage au Théâtre, Dacia Maraini). An assistant director
for Jacques Rivette (L’Amour fou, 1969; shot in
1967) and Marc’O (Les Idoles, 1968), he also co-wrote
a few movies fi lmed by colleagues (Aloïse, Liliane de
Kermadec, 1975; Mauvaise Fille, Régis Franc, 1991;
Transatlantique / Transatlantico, Christine Laurent,
France / Portugal, 1996; Café de la Plage / French TV:
L’Homme qui ne savait pas être un Ami, Benoît Graffi
n, 2001). He occasionally played small parts for Luc
Moullet (Brigitte et Brigitte, 1966), Jean Eustache (La
Maman et la Putain / USA: The Mother and the Whore,
1973), and Philippe Garrel (Les Ministères de l’Art,
1988). He appeared as himself in Cinématon (Gérard
Courant, 1985) and in a couple of documentaries on
his work (Cinéma de notre Temps: André Téchiné, après
la Nouvelle Vague, Laurent Perrin, 1995; Kinomagazin:
Das Zittern des Lebens—Das Kino des André Téchiné,
Gerhard Midding, Germany, 1997). He was credited
as a technical adviser in A toute Vitesse / USA: Full
Speed (Gaël Morel, 1996).
Filmography
1965 Les Oiseaux anglais (documentary; short)
1971 Le Banquet (short)
1975 Paulina s’en va (also screenwriter, dialogist;
shot in 1967–1969)
Souvenirs d’en France / USA: French Provincial
(also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
1976 Barocco (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
lyricist)
1979 Les Soeurs Brontë / UK and USA: The Bronte
Sisters (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)