Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Des Enfants dans les Arbres (also co-screenwriter)
1995 Le Juge est une Femme (episode “La Fille
aînée”)
1996 Le Juge est une Femme (episode “L’Enfant de
l’Absente”)
1998 Le Juge est une Femme (episode “Le Rachat”)
1999 Le Juge est une Femme (episodes “L’Usine
du Père Noël,” “Excès de Pouvoir,” “La Face
Cachée”)
Le Cocu magnifi que (also co-screenwriter)
2000 Les Faux-fuyants / Die Landpartie (also coscreenwriter;
France / Germany)
Le Juge est une Femme (episodes “Suspectes,”
“Bon pour Accord,” “Cadeau d’Entreprise”;
also co-screenwriter)
Annibal (also screenwriter)
2001 Le Juge est une Femme (episode “Cœur solitaire”)
2002 Le Juge est une Femme (episodes “Les Délices
du Palais,” “Soumission,” “Juge contre Juge”)
Mademoiselle Else (also co-screenwriter;
France / Austria / Germany)
2003 L’Affaire Dominici (also co-screenwriter)
2004 La Cliente (also screenwriter)
Le Silence de la Mer (France / Belgium)
Le Voyageur sans Bagage (also screenwriter)
2005 Désiré Landru (also co-screenwriter)
2006 Le Rainbow Warrior
Monsieur Léon
2008 Braquage en Famille (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2009 La Reine morte
BOYER, JEAN (June 26, 1901, Paris, France–March
10, 1965, Paris, France)
The son of a chansonnier from Montmartre, Lucien
Boyer, he wrote songs and revues before entering
fi lms as a lyricist (1930 Prix de Beauté, Augusto Genina;
Le Chemin du Paradis, also actor, French-language version
of Wilhelm Thiele’s Die Drei von der Tankstelle,
Max de Vaucorbeil, Germany / France; Flagrant Délit,
French-language version of Hanns Schwarz’s Einbrecher,
Georges Tréville, Germany / France; 1931 Mon
Ami Victor!, André Berthomieu; Le Capitaine Craddock,
French-language version of Hanns Schwarz’s Bomben
auf Monte-Carlo, Max de Vaucorbeil, Germany / France;
Dactylo, also co-screenwriter, dialogist, actor, Wilhelm
Thiele; La Fille et le Garçon, French-language version
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of Wilhelm Thiele’s Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag, Roger
Le Bon, Germany / France; Grock, French-language
version of Carl Boese’s Grock, Joë Hamman; Germany
/ France; Ronny, French-language version of
Reinhold Schünzel’s Ronny, Roger Le Bon, Germany /
France; 1932 Coeur de Lilas, Anatole Litvak; Le Rosier
de Madame Husson, Bernard-Deschamps; Tumultes,
French-language version of Robert Siodmak’s Stürme
der Leidenschaft, Robert Siodmak; Germany / France;
Embrassez-moi, also screenwriter, dialogist, Léon Mathot;
Quick, French-language version of Robert Siodmak’s
Quick, Robert Siodmak, Germany / France;
Simone est comme ça, Karl Anton; Le Vainqueur, also
dialogist, French-language version of Hans Hinrich
and Paul Martin’s Der Sieger, Hans Hinrich, Paul Martin,
Germany / France; Vous serez ma Femme, Frenchlanguage
version of Carl Boese and Heinz Hille’s Der
Frechdachs, Serge de Poligny, Germany / France; Voyage
de Noces, also dialogist, French-language version of
Erich Schmidt and Joe May’s Hochzeitsreise zu dritt /
Wenn ich einmal eine Dummhelt mache . . . , Germain
Fried, Germany / France; 1933 Le Chemin du Bonheur,
Jean Mamy; La Fille du Régiment, French-language version
of Carl Lamac’s Die Tochter des Regiments / Die
Regimentstochter, Pierre Billon, Germany; Nu comme
un Ver, also screenwriter, dialogist, Léon Mathot; Un
Soir de Réveillon, also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
Karl Anton; 1934 L’Or dans la Rue, Kurt Bernhardt;
1936 Les Gais-Lurons, French-language version of
Paul Martin’s Glückskinder, Jacques Natanson; 1945
Le Roi des Resquilleurs, Jean Devaivre). Also a screenwriter
(1931 La Fin du Monde, as co-screenwriter,
Abel Gance; 1932 Passionnément, as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist, René Guissart, Louis Mercanton;
1934 La Garnison amoureuse, as screenwriter,
dialogist, Max de Vaucorbeil; Dédé, as co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; René Guissart; 1935 Le Contrôleur
des Wagons-Lits, as dialogist, Richard Eichberg,
Germany / France; 1937 La Chaste Suzanne / English
version: The Girl in the Taxi, as dialogist, André Berthomieu,
UK; Mademoiselle ma Mère, as screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, Henri Decoin; 1938 Abus de Confi -
ance, as co-adapter, Henri Decoin; 1942 Signé Illisible,
as screenwriter, dialogist, Christian Chamborant;
1948 Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés, as co-adapter,
Marcel Aboulker) and a sound technician (1930 La
Place est bonne!, Roger Lion; 1932 Ghanili Dour, documentary,
short, Roger Lion), he wrote some of the
most famous of Maurice Chevalier’s songs (Ca c’est
passé un Dimanche, Mimile, Appelez ça comme vous