Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

UK; 1946 Captive Heart, as associate producer, Basil
Dearden, UK) and consultant art director (1941 The
Ghost of St. Michaels, Marcel Varnel, UK; Turned Out
Nice Again, Marcel Varnel, UK). He moved to Brazil
for a series of lectures and was hired by the Véra
Cruz Company as general producer (1950 Caiçara,
also co-screenwriter, Adolfo Celi, Tom Payne, John
Waterhouse, Brazil; 1951 Painel, documentary, short,
Lima Barreto, Brazil; Angela, also co-screenwriter,
Eros Martin Gonçalves, Tom Payne, Abilio Pereira
de Almeida, Brazil; 1952 Terra è Sempre Terra, Tom
Payne, Brazil; Santuario, documentary, short, Lima
Barreto, Brazil). Having returned to Europe in 1955,
he carried on his directing career, played in a feature
fi lm (1975 Lettres de Stalingrad, Gilles Katz, shot in
1968–1969), and appeared as himself in documentaries
shot for TV (1968 Cinéastes de notre Temps,
episode “Le Cinéma de la première Vague,” Noël
Burch, Jean-André Fieschi; 1974 Le Cinéma français
par ceux qui l’ont fait, Armand Panigel) and cinema
(1973 Grierson, Roger Blais, Canada).
Filmography
1926 Rien que les Heures / UK: Nothing but Time /
USA: Nothing but the Hours (also screenwriter,
adapter, editor)
1927 La P’tite Lili (also short, editor)
Yvette (also screenwriter, adapter, editor)
1928 En Rade / UK and USA: Sea Fever (also coscreenwriter,
editor, composer)
1929 La Jalousie du Barbouillé (also screenwriter,
adapter, co–production designer; shot in
1927)
Le Train sans Yeux (also screenwriter, adapter,
editor; shot in 1926)
Le Capitaine Fracasse / US video: Captain Fracasse
(co-director with Henry Wulschleger;
also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, editor)
1930 Vous verrez la Semaine prochaine (documentary;
medium-length; also screenwriter, editor)
Le Petit Chaperon rouge / USA: Little Red Riding
Hood (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, production
designer, editor)
Dans une Île perdue (French-language version
of William A. Wellman’s Dangerous Paradise,
USA)
Toute sa Vie / L’Appel du Coeur (Frenchlanguage
version of Dorothy Arzner’s Sarah
and Son; also Portuguese-language version: A
Canção do berço, USA)
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1931 Les Vacances du Diable (also adapter; Frenchlanguage
version of Edmund Goulding’s The
Devil’s Holiday, USA)
A mi-Chemin du Ciel (also adapter; Frenchlanguage
version of George Abbott’s Half-Way
to Heaven, USA)
1932 Le Truc du Brésilien (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
En lisant le Journal (short)
Le Jour du Frotteur (short; also screenwriter)
Montmartre qui tourne / Nous ne ferons jamais
de Cinéma / Revue montmartroise (short; also
screenwriter, adapter)
Plaisirs défendus (short; also screenwriter)
1933 Le Mari Garçon.
Coralie et Cie (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
Pour un Piano (also screenwriter; unfi nished)
Tour de Chant (short; also screenwriter)
1934 New Rates (documentary; short; UK)
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs (short;
also uncredited co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
actor, editor, sound designer; UK)
1935 Coal Face (documentary; short; also co-screenwriter,
sound engineer; UK)
1936 Message from Geneva (documentary; short;
also screenwriter; UK)
1937 Who Writes to Switzerland (documentary;
short; also screenwriter; UK)
We Live in Two Worlds, a Film Talk by J. B. Priestley
(documentary; short; UK)
The Line to Tschierva Hut (documentary; also
screenwriter, editor; UK)
1938 Four Barriers (documentary; short; also screenwriter;
UK)
1939 A Midsummer Day’s Work (documentary; short;
also screenwriter, editor; UK)
Men of the Alps (documentary; short; UK)
1940 Factory Front (also producer; UK)
1941 Yellow Caesar (documentary; short; UK)
1942 Film and Reality (compilation documentary;
also author of commentary; UK)
Alice in Switzerland (documentary; UK)
Went the Day Well? / USA: 48 Hours (UK)
1943 Waterlight (documentary; also screenwriter;
UK)
1944 The Halfway House / USA: Halfway House
(uncredited director with Basil Dearden; also
associate producer; UK)
Champagne Charlie (UK)