Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1920 L’Eté de la Saint-Martin (also screenwriter,
adapter)
Le Remous / USA: The Whirlpool (also screenwriter)
1921 La Hurle (also screenwriter)
Le Porion (also screenwriter, producer)
1923 L’Evasion (also screenwriter, adapter; shot in
1921)
1926 La Neuvaine de Colette (also producer)
CHAMPETIER, EMILIEN
Filmography
1924 Une Vieille Marquise très riche (also screenwriter,
producer, actor)
1925 L’Eveilleur d’Instincts (also producer, actor)
1926 Eh bien! Dansez maintenant (also screenwriter)
1928 La Maison sans Amour (also producer)
1929 L’Ingénu libertin (also screenwriter, producer)
CHAMPREUX, JACQUES (March 31, 1930, Paris,
France–)
The grandson of director Louis Feuillade and son
of fi lmmaker Maurice Champreux, he started out
as an actor playing small parts in fi lms (1961 Les
Lâches vivent d’Espoir / USA: My Baby Is Black, Claude
Bernard-Aubert; 1962 Les Parisiennes / Le Parigine /
UK: Beds and Broads / USA: Tales of Paris, segment
“Un Copain d’Ella / Ella,” Jacques Poitrenaud, France
/ Italy; 1969 Trente-Six Heures, short, Philippe Haudiquet;
2003 Histoires de Fiction, as himself, Sabine
Chalvon-Demersay, Patrick Jeudy; 2004 Le Fantôme
d’Henri Langlois / USA: Henri Langlois: The Phantom of
the Cinematheque, Jacques Richard) and on TV (1961
Loin de Rueil, Claude Barma; 1964 Rocambole; fi rst
season: L’Héritage mystérieux, Jean-Pierre Decourt).
Known mostly as a screenwriter (1963 Judex / L’uomo
in nero, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist,
Georges Franju, France / Italy; 1967 Saturnin Belloir,
13 26', also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Jacques-
Gérard Cornu; 1968 Les Compagnons de Baal, 7 50':
episodes “Le Secret de Diogène,” “Le Mystère de l’Île
Saint-Louis,” “Le Spectre rouge,” “L’Inquiétant Professeur
Lomer,” “La Nuit du Huit de Trèfl e,” “L’Héritage
de Nostradamus,” “L’Eveil de Liliane,” as screenwriter,
dialogist, actor, Pierre Prévert; 1973 L’Île mystérieuse,
6 52', as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Juan Antonio
Bardem, Henri Colpi, France / Italy / Spain; 1974 Nuits
rouges / UK and USA: Shadowman, as screenwriter,
CHAMPREUX, MAURICE • 203
dialogist, actor, Georges Franju, France / Italy; 1975
L’Homme sans Visage, 8 60': episodes “L’Homme
sans Visage,” “Le Masque de Plomb,” “Les Tueurs sans
Âme,” “La Mort qui rampait sur les Toits,” “La Marche
des Spectres,” “Le Sang accusateur,” “Le Rapt,” “Le
Secret des Templiers,” as screenwriter, dialogist, actor,
France / Italy), he directed a feature fi lm on African
immigration in France.
Filmography
1979 Bako, l’Autre Rive (also co-screenwriter, codialogist)
CHAMPREUX, MAURICE (May 21, 1893, France–
November 15, 1976, Paris, France)
He was the cinematographer and editor of Louis
Feuillade (1918 Vendémiaire, one prologue and three
parts: “La Vigne,” “La Cuve,” “Le Vin nouveau”; 1919
Barrabas, twelve episodes: “La Maîtresse du Juif errant,”
“La Justice des Hommes,” “La Villa des Glycines,”
“Le Stigmate,” “Noëlle Maupré,” “La Fille
du Condamné,” “Les Ailes de Satan,” “Le Manoir
mystérieux,” “L’Otage,” “L’Oubliette,” “Le Revenant,”
“Justice”; L’Homme sans Visage; L’Engrenage; L’Enigme
/ Le Mot de l’Enigme; Le Nocturne; 1921 Les Deux Gamines,
twelve episodes: “Fleurs de Paris,” “La Nuit du
Printemps,” “La Fugitive,” “La Morte vivante,” “Le Lys
sous l’Orage,” “L’Accalmie,” “Celle qu’on n’attendait
plus,” “Parmi les Loups,” “Le Serment de Ginette,”
“Le Candidat à la Mort,” “La Cité des Chiffons,” “Le
Retour”; L’Orpheline, twelve episodes: “Malheurs de
Némorin,” “Orpheline,” “Le Complot,” “L’Intruse,”
“Délivrance,” “Le Traquenard,” “A l’Ombre du Clocher,”
“La Conquête d’un Héritage,” “Soirs de Paris,”
“Chagrin d’Amour,” “Le Revenant,” “Vers le Bonheur”;
1922 Parisette, twelve episodes: “Manoela,”
“Le Secret de Mme Stefan,” “L’Affaire de Neuilly,”
“L’Enquête,” “La Piste,” “Grand-Père,” “Le Faux Révérend,”
“Family House,” “L’Impasse,” “Le Triomphe
de Cogolin,” “La Fortune de Joaquin,” “Le Secret de
Costabella”; Le Fils du Flibustier, twelve episodes: “La
Flibuste,” “Le Pavillon noir,” “Le Vaisseau maudit,”
“Maman,” “La Noce d’Anaïs,” “La Mission d’un Fils,”
“Le Justicier,” “La Drogue blanche,” “Le Passé,” “Le
Revenant de Saint-Fons,” “Le Maître-Chanteur,” “Le
Testament”; 1923 Vindicta, fi ve episodes: “La Terre qui
tremble,” “L’Intruse,” “L’Emmurée,” “Le Mariage de
Blanche Césarin,” “Soir nuptial”; Le Gamin de Paris;
1924 La Gosseline, as co-cinematographer only; La Fille
bien gardée, L’Orphelin de Paris, as co-cinematographer,