Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1976 Le Corps de mon Ennemi (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, producer, uncredited actor)
1979 I . . . comme Icare (also screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist, delegate producer, uncredited
actor)
1982 Mille Milliards de Dollars (also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer)
1984 Les Morfalous (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
voice; France / Tunisia)
1991 Mayrig / USA: Mother (also author of original
novel, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1992 588, Rue Paradis / USA: Mother (also author of
original novel, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
uncredited actor)
Television Filmography
1993 Mayrig (TV miniseries; also author of original
novel, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
VERNOUX, MARION (June 29, 1966, Montreuil-
Sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France–)
A production assistant (from 1984 to 1987), she
wrote a successful song for actor and singer Florent
Pagny (N’importe quoi, 1988) before collaborating as
a co-screenwriter on several movies (1990 Pacifi c
Palisades, Bernard Schmitt, France / USA; 1998 La Voie
est libre, Stéphane Clavier; 1999 Vénus Beauté (Institut)
/ UK: Venus Beauty Salon / USA: Venus Beauty Institute,
Tonie Marshall). After her sojourn at Villa Médicis in
Rome, she directed her fi rst feature-length. Also seen
as an actress in Je n’en ferai pas un Drame (mediumlength,
Dodine Herry).
Filmography
1994 Personne ne m’aime (also co-screenwriter;
France / Switzerland)
1996 Love etc. (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, codialogist,
lyricist)
L’@mour est à réinventer, dix Histoires d’Amour
au Temps du Sida / USA: Love Reinvented (segment
“Ded@ns”)
1999 Rien à faire / USA: Empty Days (also co-screenwriter)
2000 Scénarios sur la Drogue (segment “Drugstore”)
2001 Reines d’un Jour / USA: A Hell of a Day (also
co-screenwriter)
2004 A boire (also screenwriter)
VEYSSET, SANDRINE • 1001
Television Filmography
1991 Pierre qui roule (also screenwriter)
VERSINI, ANDRÉ (November 23, 1923, Saint-
Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France–December 8, 1966,
Paris, France)
He was above all a fi ne character actor seen in a few
plays and about thirty movies (from 1947 Troisième
Cheminée à gauche, Jean Mineur, to his last fi lm as
director, 1964 Voir Venise et . . . crever). He was the
author of the original idea of Le Couteau dans la Plaie
/ Il coltello nella piaga / La terza dimensione / USA: Five
Miles to Midnight (Anatole Litvak, France / Italy, 1962)
and the original story of L’Intrépide (Jean Girault,
1975). He also wrote the screenplay and the dialogue
of L’Inconnue de Hong Kong / USA: Stranger from Hong
Kong (Jacques Poitrenaud). He prematurely died of
leukemia at age forty-three. He was married to Italian
actress Vanna Urbino (b. 1929).
Filmography
1962 Horace 62 / Un appuntamento per uccidere /
La terribile notte / USA: The Fabiani Affair (also
screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)
1964 Voir Venise et crever / La spia che venne dall’ovest
/ Mord am Canale Grande / UK: Mission to Die
/ USA: Mission to Venise (also actor; France /
Italy / West Germany)
Television Filmography
1967 Rue barrée (26 13'; also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist)
VEYRON, MARTIN (March 27, 1950, Dax, Landes,
France–)
A comic book author since 1977 (his fi rst strips
were published in L’Echo des Savanes), he co-wrote a
movie (1983 Circulez, y’a rien à voir, Patrice Leconte)
and brought one of his albums (L’Amour propre ne le
reste jamais très Longtemps) to the screen. In 1996, he
published his fi rst novel (Tremolo Corazon, Editions
Jean-Claude Lattès).
Filmography
1985 L’Amour propre (also screenwriter, dialogist)
VEYSSET, SANDRINE (Sandrine Solange Vesset /
March 28, 1967, Avignon, Vaucluse, France–)