Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Filmography
1985 Le Thé au Harem d’Archimède / USA: Tea in
the Harem (also original novel, screenwriter,
dialogist)
1987 Miss Mona (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1988 Camomille (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1992 Au Pays des Juliets (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2000 Marie-Line (also screenwriter, dialogist)
2001 La Fille de Keltoum / Bent Keltoum / Canada:
The Daughter of Keltoum (also screenwriter;
France / Belgium / Tunisia)
2005 Les Enfants invisibles / All the invisible Children
(segment “Tanza”; France / Italy)
2007 Cartouches gauloises (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Television Filmography
1996 Pigeon volé (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1999 La Maison d’Alexina (also screenwriter, dialogist)
CHARIGOT, PHILIPPE (January 20, 1955, Paris,
France–)
He made his apprenticeship as second assistant director
(1980 Tout dépend des Filles, Pierre Fabre; 1982
L’Honneur d’un Capitaine / USA: A Captain’s Honor,
Pierre Schoendoerffer; 1984 Le Jumeau, Yves Robert)
and then fi rst assistant director (1986 La Dernière Image
/ Al-Coura-al-akhira, Mohammed Lakdhar-Hamina,
France / Algeria). The only feature fi lm he directed
was a commercial failure.
Filmography
1987 Châteauroux District (also co-adapter, codialogist)
CHARON, JACQUES (February 27, 1920, Paris,
France–October 15, 1975, Paris, France)
The son of hosiers, he was the pupil of Julien Bertheau
and Maurice Escande at the Conservatoire
d’Art Dramatique de Paris. He made his stage debut
at the Comédie Française in 1942. He devoted his life
to theater as a performer and a director. From 1941
(Premier Rendez-vous / USA: Her First Affair, Henri Decoin)
to 1969 (Trois Hommes sur un Cheval), he played
supporting roles in twenty-nine movies. He brought
to the screen Georges Feydeau’s play La Puce à
l’Oreille, starring Rex Harrison and Louis Jourdan. He
died of a heart attack at age fi fty-fi ve. Autobiography:
1975 Moi, un Comédien (Editions Albin Michel).
Filmography
1968 A Flea in Her Ear / La Puce à l’Oreille (France
/ USA)
Television Filmography
1973 Monsieur Pompadour
CHARPAK, ANDRÉ (1930–Deceased)
A playwright and stage, TV, and fi lm (1958 En Bordée,
Pierre Chevalier; 1965 La Dame de Pique, Léonard
Keigel) actor, he created his own theatrical company
before fi lming shorts and feature fi lms.
Filmography
1964 Mayeux le Bossu (documentary; short; also
screenwriter)
1967 La Vie normale (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1968 Le Crime de David Levinstein (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, actor)
1970 La Provocation / Provokatia (also actor; France
/ Israel)
Television Filmography
1973 William Conrad (4 25')
CHATILIEZ, ETIENNE • 207
CHATILIEZ, ETIENNE (June 17, 1952, Roubaix,
Nord, France–)
An ideas man and writer for ten years for the advertising
agency CLM-BBDO before shooting commercials,
he directed successful comedies. He occasionally
appeared as an actor in a couple of fi lms (1985
La Nuit Porte-Jarretelles, Virginie Thévenet; 1999 Doggy
Bag, Frédéric Comtet).
Filmography
1988 La Vie est un long Fleuve tranquille / UK and
USA: Life Is a Long Quiet River (also co- screenwriter)
1990 Tatie Danielle
1995 Le Bonheur est dans le Pré / USA: Happiness Is
in the Field
2000 Scénarios sur la Drogue (segment La Famille
Médicament)
2001 Tanguy (also co-screenwriter)
2004 La Confi ance règne (also original idea, coscreenwriter)
2008 Agathe Cléry (also co-screenwriter)