Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

146 • BRENGUIER, DOMINIQUE
BRENGUIER, DOMINIQUE
He entered fi lms as an assistant cameraman (1979
La Drôlesse / USA: The Hussy, Jacques Doillon). From
1981 (Encore une Histoire d’Amour, short, Marc Jolivet)
to 2008 (R.I.S., Police scientifi que), he worked as a
cinematographer on more than forty shorts, feature
fi lms, TV movies, and TV series.
Filmography
2007 Bluesbreaker (also screenwriter, dialogist)
BRESSOL, PIERRE (Pierre Dubois / January 12,
1874, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France–April 9,
1925, Paris, France)
He made his fi lm debut as an actor portraying detective
Nick Carter in several shorts directed by
Victorin Jasset (1908 Nick Carter, le Roi des Détectives,
episodes “Le Guet-apens,” “L’affaire des Bijoux,” “Les
Faux-Monnayeurs” / USA: The Coiners, or Catching
the Counterfeiters; Les Dévaliseurs de Banque / USA:
The Banker; Les Empreintes; Les Bandits en Habits noirs;
1909 Les Nouveaux Exploits de Nick Carter, episodes
“En Danger,” “Le Sosie” / USA: The Double; Nick
Carter—Le Club des Suicidés / USA: The Suicide Club;
Nick Carter—Les Dragées soporifi ques / USA: The
Sleeping Pills; 1910 Nick Carter acrobate / USA: Nick
Carter as an Acrobat; 1911 Le Mystère du Lit blanc). He
played in most of the fi lms he directed and notably
performed the character of Nat Pinkerton.
Filmography
1910 Les Rats d’Hôtel (short; also screenwriter, actor)
1911 L’Affaire d’Excelsior Park (short; also actor)
L’Auberge sanglante (short; also actor)
La Bande des Habits noirs (short; also actor)
Le Buvard révélateur (short; also actor)
Les Cavaliers noirs (short; also actor)
L’Emmuré (short; also actor)
L’Enigme de la Villa des Saules / L’Enigme de la
Maison des Saules (short; also actor)
Jimmy le Chauffeur (short; also actor)
La Maison de l’Effroi (short; also actor)
Le Masque de Cire (short; also actor)
Le Mystère du Lit blanc (short; also actor)
Le Mystère du Val maudit (short; also actor)
Les Perceurs de Murailles (short; also actor)
Qui a tué le Prêteur sur Gages, (short; also
actor)
Le Secret du Coffre (short; also actor)
1912 Les Cent Mille Dollars de la Banque Norton
(short; also actor)
Le Cheveu d’Or (short; also actor)
L’Homme au Trois Doigts (short; also actor)
Le Mystère du Coffre-Fort (short; also actor)
Le Mystère du Train de Sept Heures (short; also
actor)
Nick Pinkerton contre tous (short; also actor)
Le Phare tragique (short; also actor)
Une Réhabilitation (short; also actor)
Le Valet de Coeur (also actor)
Le Vol de la Malle des Indes (short; also actor)
1913 L’Armoire secrète (short; also actor)
La Course au Rubis (also actor)
Les Diamants du Hollandais (also actor)
Le Nocturne (short; also actor)
Les Pilleurs de Musée (also actor)
1914 L’Affaire des Cinq (short; also actor)
Nat Pinkerton contre Nat Pinkerton (also actor)
Nat Pinkerton contre Pegomas (short; also actor)
Les Pilleurs de Chalands (also actor)
Le Trésor de Guatemaya (also actor)
Un Chouan (short)
1916 Dans le Gouffre (also screenwriter, adapter,
actor)
Le Grand Crime (short; also actor)
Les Petits Soldats de Plomb (short; also actor)
1917 Ainsi va la Vie (also screenwriter, adapter)
Loin du Foyer (also screenwriter, adapter)
1919 Histoire d’un Oncle, d’une Nièce et d’un Sabot
(also actor)
La Rétive
Le Mystère de la Villa Mortain (four parts; also
actor)
La Mission du Docteur Klivers (also screenwriter,
actor)
Les Figures de Cire
1920 Une Goutte de Sang (co-director with Etienne
Michel; also co-screenwriter, producer, actor)
1924 Le Loup-Garou (fi ve episodes; co-director with
Jacques Roullet; also actor)
BRESSON, ROBERT (September 25, 1901, Bromont-Lamothe,
Puy-de-Dôme, France–December 18,
1999, Paris, France)
Born in the castle of Bromont-Lamothe, he graduated
with a Latin–Greek–philosophy high school diploma
and turned a painter and then a photographer before
writing gags for commercials. He also was dialogue