Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

WAGON, VIRGINIE (May 26, 1965, France–)
Having graduated from the European Business School
in 1987, she shot television reports before directing
her fi rst movie, a short. From 1996 to 2000, she collaborated
as a screenwriter on all of Erick Zonca’s
fi lms (1994 Eternelles, short; 1996 Seule, short; 1998
La Vie rêvée des Anges / USA: The Dreamlife of Angels /
US video: The Daydreams of Angels; 2000 Le Petit Voleur,
shot in 1998). Zonca co-wrote her fi rst feature fi lm.
Filmography
1995 Grandir (short)
2000 Le Secret (also co-screenwriter)
WALL, JEAN (Jean Wallenstein / December 31,
1900, Paris, France–October 24, 1959, Paris, France)
After completing his secondary studies in Orléans,
he spent some time in a Parisian university. A stage
actor from 1922, he entered fi lms in 1931 (La Vagabonde,
Solange Bussi) and played supporting roles in
about forty fi lms until his death in 1959 (last fi lm:
1959 Secret professionnel, Raoul André). An occasional
director, he shot only two feature fi lms.
Filmography
1949 Bonheur en Location
1952 Bille de Clown (shot in 1950)
WALTER, CLAUDE (Claude Bonin / 1909, France–
Deceased)
The owner of a Parisian striptease club (Le Club des
Capucines), he never stopped exhibiting his taste for
eroticism and women, fi rst directing a kind of nudie
(several scenes took place inside a nudist camp)
and then playing (under a new pseudonym: Claude
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Sendron) dirty old men in many erotic fi lms of the
1970s (1972 Dossier érotique d’un Notaire / Erotisme à
l’Etude / UK: My Body Burns, Jean-Marie Pallardy; 1974
Le Journal érotique d’un Bûcheron, Jean-Marie Pallardy;
1975 Les Filles du Golen Saloon / Les Orgies du Golden
Saloon, France / Belgium). He also wrote a featurelength
(1967 Sexy-Gang, Henry-Jacques).
Filmography
1965 Eve et les bonnes Pommes (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
WARGNIER, RÉGIS (April 18, 1948, Metz, Moselle,
France–)
He earned a bachelor’s degree in letters and a
master’s degree in Greek from the University of
Nanterre. After briefl y working as a photographer, he
landed jobs as a trainee assistant director (1971 La
Décade prodigieuse / Dieci belli giorno / USA: Ten Days
Wonder, Claude Chabrol, France / Italy; 1972 Docteur
Popaul / Trappola per un lupo / UK: Scoundrel in White /
USA: High Heels / Play Now, Pay Later, Claude Chabrol;
1973 La Femme en bleu, Michel Deville, France / Italy).
He remained a second assistant to Claude Chabrol
for three years (1973 Les Noces rouges / L’amico di
famiglia / UK and USA: Wedding in Blood, France /
Italy; 1974 Nada / Sterminate Gruppo Zero / UK and
USA: The Nada Gang, France / Italy; Nouvelles de Henry
James, TV series, episode “Le Blanc de la Désolation,”
France / UK; Histoires insolites, TV series, episode
“Monsieur Bébé”; 1976 Nouvelles de Henry James, TV
series, episode “De Grey,” France / UK). He collaborated
on several fi lms as a location manager (1976
Monsieur Albert, Jacques Renard; 1977 Il deserto dei
Tartari / Le Désert des Tartares / Die Tartarenwüste / UK
and USA: The Desert of the Tartars, Valerio Zurlini, Italy