Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

into Darkness, Anatole Litvak; 1937 Nuits de Feu / UK
and USA: The Living Corpse, Marcel L’Herbier; Forfaiture,
Marcel L’Herbier; 1939 La Mode rêvée, short, Marcel
L’Herbier; 1940 Les Surprises de la Radio, Marcel Aboulker)
and collaborated as a screenwriter on several
fi lms (1935 Soirée de Gala, short, Victor De Fast; 1936
Le Mioche / USA: 40 Girls and a Baby / Forty Little Mothers,
as co-adapter, Léonide Moguy; 1937 La Citadelle
du Silence / USA: The Citadel of Silence, also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, Marcel L’Herbier; 1938 Métropolitain,
as dialogist, Maurice Cam; 1940 La Comédie du Bonheur
/ Ecco la felicità, as co-screenwriter, Marcel L’Herbier,
France / Italy; 1948 Les Frères Bouquinquant, as coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, Louis Daquin; 1949 Le Signal
rouge, as dialogist, Ernest Neubach; 1953 Tourbillon, as
dialogist, Alfred Rode; 1956 Trois de la Canebière, as
adapter, Maurice de Canonge; 1962 La Salamandre d’Or
/ Il paladino della corte di Francia, as co-screenwriter,
Maurice Régamey; 1970 Les Libertines / L’intreccio / Las
bellas del bosque / UK: Versatile Lovers, Dave Young =
Pierre Chenal, France / Italy / Spain), a TV movie (1966
Trois Etoiles en Touraine, as co-screenwriter, Maurice
Régamey), and TV series (1973 Les Mohicans de Paris,
26 15', as screenwriter, adapter, co-dialogist, Gilles
Grangier; 1975 Salvator et les Mohicans de Paris, 8 55',
as screenwriter, adapter, Bernard Borderie).
Filmography
1930 La Joie d’une Heure (short; also screenwriter)
1933 Le Médecin de Service (short; also screenwriter)
1935 Une Belle Opération (short)
1948 Si Jeunesse savait (also screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1949 La Veuve et l’Innocent (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
Fausse Monnaie (short)
Le Portefeuille (short)
1951 Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (also
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1952 Le Crime du Bouif (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist)
1956 Appartement à louer (short)
Hatha-Yoga (short)
CHABAT, ALAIN (November 25, 1958, Oran, Algeria–)
His family settled in a Parisian suburb in 1963. He
drew comics before working for various radio channels
(Radio Andorre, France Inter, RMC). After enter-
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ing Canal Plus in the early 1980s as a weatherman, he
co-founded with Bruno Carette, Chantal Lauby, and
Dominique Farrugia the comedy team Les Nuls. From
1990 (Baby Blood, Alain Robak) to 2008 (Night at the
Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian, Shawn Levy, USA),
he played in about thirty movies. In 1997, he created
his own production company, Wam Productions, and
notably co-fi nanced Prête moi ta Main (also original
idea, actor, Eric Lartigau, 2006), Big Family (short, Cyril
Cohen, 2007), La Personne aux Deux Personnes / USA:
The Person Who Is Two Persons / Me Two (also actor,
Nicolas and Bruno, 2008), Baby(ies) (documentary;
Thomas Balmes, 2008), and A Thousand Words (Brian
Robbins, USA). He co-wrote La Cité de la Peur (also
actor, Alain Berbérian) and authored the additional
dialogue of Papa (also actor, Maurice Bathélémy).
Filmography
1997 Didier (also screenwriter, dialogist, co-producer,
actor)
2002 Astérix et Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre / Asterix &
Obelix: Mission Kleopatra / UK and USA: Asterix
& Obelix: Mission Cleopatra / USA: Asterix & Obelix
Meet Cleopatra (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, co-producer, actor; France / West
Germany)
2004 RRRrrrr!!! (also co-screenwriter, actor)
Videos
1999 Bricol’s Girls (also co-screenwriter, actor)
2000 Authentiques (musical video; co-director with
Stéphane Begoc)
CHABROL, CLAUDE (June 24, 1930, Paris,
France–)
Born into a bourgeois family, he prepared at pharmacy
school to succeed his father. His passion for cinema
led him to work as press attaché for the Twentieth
Century Fox advertising department. He collaborated
on the reviews Arts and Les Cahiers du Cinéma, in which
he published fi lm criticism and interviews. In 1957, he
co-authored with Eric Rohmer the fi rst book ever
published on Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock, Editions
Universitaires Biarritz). Thanks to an inheritance his
wife had come into, he directed his fi rst feature fi lm,
Le Beau Serge / UK: Bitter Reunion / USA: Handsome
Serge. Besides his directing career, he played supporting
roles in fi lms (1958 Le Coup du Berger / USA: Fool’s
Mate, short, also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, coproducer,
Jacques Rivette; 1960 Paris nous appartient