Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

88 • BERNARD-ROLAND
1917 48, Avenue de l’Opéra (as Dominique Bernard-
Deschamps; co-director with Georges Denola)
1918 La Beauté qui meurt (four parts; as Dominique
Bernard-Deschamps; also screenwriter; shot
in 1916)
Hier et aujourd’hui (as Dominique Bernard-
Deschamps)
1922 La Nuit du 11 Septembre (as Dominique Bernard-Deschamps;
shot in 1919)
L’Agonie des Aigles (two parts: “Le Roi de
Rome,” “Les ‘Demi-Soldes’”; co-director with
Julien Duvivier)
1932 Le Rosier de Madame Husson / USA: He / Mrs.
Hudson’s Virginity Prize / The Virgin Man
1936 La Marmaille
1938 Monsieur Coccinelle (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1940 Tempête / Tempête sur Paris / UK and USA:
Thunder over Paris (also co-screenwriter)
BERNARD-ROLAND (Roland Léon Bourriquet /
November 22, 1910, Moulins, Allier, France–March 10,
1987, Canicatti Bagni, Italia)
He successively was cameraman, sound technician,
assistant director (1934 Brevet 95-75, Pierre
Lequim = Pierre Miquel), production manager (1941
Montmartre-sur-Seine, Georges Lacombe; Chèque
au Porteur, Jean Boyer; 1942 Mademoiselle Swing,
Richard Pottier), fi lm director, and fi nally producer
(1953 Cet Homme est dangereux / USA: This Man
Is Dangerous / US TV: Dangerous Agent, Jean Sacha;
1955 Gueule d’Ange / USA: Pleasure and Vices, Marcel
Blistène; 1956 Impasse des Vertus / UK and USA: Love
at Night, Pierre Méré).
Filmography
1936 Femmes (shot in 1934)
1937 Partir en Voyage (short; fi lmed song)
1938 La Vie des Artistes (documentary; also screenwriter)
Quand le Cœur chante (short)
1942 Le Grand Combat
1943 Le Soleil de Minuit
1944 La Collection Ménard
1946 Le Couple idéal (co-director with Raymond
Rouleau)
Nous ne sommes pas mariés (co-director with
Gianni Pons)
1949 Portrait d’un Assassin
1958 Operacion Antartida / Continente bianco / Le
Conquérant solitaire (Argentina / France)
1959 La Nuit des Traqués
1962 Il segugio / Accroche-toi, y’a du Vent! (Italy /
France)
Television Filmography
1959 Les Aventures d’Oscar (13 26')
Le Chandelier
1974 Nans le Berger (31 26')
1979 Le Facteur de Fontcabrette
Les Amours de la belle Epoque (65 26'; codirector
only)
1980 Mathieu, Gaston, Peluche
1981 Un Chien de Saison
BERNHEIM, MICHEL (January 17, 1908, Paris,
France–April 20, 1985, Paris, France)
A former assistant director (1929 La Divine Croisière,
Julien Duvivier; La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin,
Julien Duvivier; 1931 Azaïs, René Hervil), he was
technical adviser to Lewis Milestone (1948 Arch of Triumph,
USA) and researcher for Victor Fleming (1948
Joan of Arc, USA).
Filmography
1932 Panurge
1935 Marie des Angoisses
1936 Le Roman d’un Spahi
1937 Police mondaine (co-director with Christian
Chamborant)
1938 L’Ange que j’ai vendu
BERNY, MICHEL (February 18, 1945, Bourg-en-
Bresse, Ain, France–December 18, 2006, Paris, France)
A movie and TV director, he specialized in comedy.
Filmography
1973 Les Grands Sentiments font les bons Gueuletons
(also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist;
shot in 1971)
1981 Pourquoi pas nous? (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
Television Filmography
1979 Histoires de Voyous (episode “Les Marloupins”)
1980 Petit Déjeuner compris (6 52')
1982 La Marseillaise
1984 Billet doux (TV miniseries; also co-screenwriter)
1988 Julien Fontanes, Magistrat (episode “La Bête
noire”)