Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

214 • CHEVALLIER, LAURENT
Willy Rozier; Le Père tranquille / USA: Mr. Orchid,
René Clément; 1947 Les Maudits / UK and USA:
The Damned, René Clément; Les Requins de Gibraltar,
Emile-Edwin Reinert; 1948 Neuf Garçons, un Cœur,
Georges Freedland; 1949 Au-delà des Grilles / La mura
di Malapaga / USA: The Walls of Malapaga, René Clémént,
France / Italy; 1950 La Marie du Port, Marcel
Carné; 1951 L’Etrange Madame X, Jean Grémillon; Rue
des Saussaies, Ralph Habib; 1952 Brelan d’As, Henri
Verneuil; Le Fruit défendu / UK and USA: Forbidden
Fruit, Henri Verneuil; 1954 Le Mouton à Cinq Pattes
/ USA: The Sheep Has Five Legs, Henri Verneuil), he
directed mostly comedies (1955–1963) and erotic
fl icks by 1968. Other credit (as set decorator): 1980
Sexo canibal / French video: Chasseur de l’Enfer / Chasseurs
d’Hommes / Jungfrau unter Kannibalen / USA:
Mandingo Hunter (Jesús Franco, Spain / France / West
Germany).
Filmography
1955 Les Impures / USA: Human Cargo (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter)
1956 Vous pigez? / Il maggiorato fi sico / Donne, Danni
e diamante (France / Italy)
1957 L’Auberge en Folie
Fernand clochard (also co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1958 En Bordée
Le Sicilien (also co-adapter)
1959 Soupe au Lait (also co-adapter, co-dialogist)
La Marraine de Charley (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1960 Le Mouton (also co-adapter)
1961 Auguste (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1962 Règlements de Comptes
1963 Clémentine chérie
Le Bon Roi Dagobert / Il re e il monsignore (also
co-screenwriter; France / Italy)
1968 Huyendo de sí mismo (co-director with Juan
Fortuny; Spain)
1969 Nathalie, l’Amour s’éveille (as Peter Knight; also
co-screenwriter)
1971 La Vie amoureuse de l’Homme invisible / Orloff y
el hombre invisible / UK: Orloff and the Invisible
Man / The Invisible Dead / USA: Orloff Against
the Invisible Man / Dr. Orloff’s Invisible Monster
(as Peter Knight; also co-screenwriter; France
/ Spain)
1973 Pigalle, Carrefour des Illusions (as Peter Knight;
shot in 1971)
Avortement clandestin! / Abortus in het geheim
(also co-screenwriter)
1974 La Maison des Filles perdues / La casa delle
bambole crudeli / UK: House of the Lost Girls /
US video: House of Lost Dolls (as Peter Knight;
also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)
1976 Hommes de Joie pour Femmes vicieuses / Des
Hommes de Joie (as Chantal Calvanti and Lina
Cavalcanti; also co-screenwriter as H. L. Rostaine;
shot in 1974)
Vergewaltigt (West Germany)
1977 Convoi de Femmes (France / Italy; shot in
1974)
1984 Viol, la grande Peur (shot in 1978)
CHEVALLIER, LAURENT (June 6, 1955, France–)
Having trained at the Louis Lumière fi lm school
(1974–1976), he was an assistant cameraman (1983
Duvar / Le Mur / UK and USA: The Wall, Yilmaz Güney,
Turkey / France; 1986 Mon Beau-Frère a tué ma Soeur,
Jacques Rouffi o), cameraman (1988 Une Histoire de
Vent / Eine Geschichte über der Wind / USA: A Tale of
the Wind, Joris Ivens, France / UK / West Germany /
Netherlands), cinematographer for cinema (1977 Nucléaire,
Danger immédiat, documentary, Serge Poljinsky;
1985 L’Index, short, Marie-Hélène Quinton; 1993 The
Tulkus, Pan Nalin, Canada / France / India; 1998 Le
Poète que je préfère, short, Christel Delahaye) and
television (1988 Un Médecin des Lumières / Ein Artzt
der Hoffnung, René Allio, France / West Germany;
1995 Music for the Movies: The Hollywood Sound, documentary,
Joshua Waletzky, USA / France / Japan), and
editor (2002 Crash Test, short, Stéphan Archinard;
2005 Alex au Pays des Merveilles, short, Luis Inácio). He
appeared as himself in J’aime la Vie, je fais du Vélo, je vais
au Cinéma (documentary, Francis Fourcou, 2005).
Filmography
1976 Les Apprentis se réveillent (short)
1978 Une Souris et des Hommes (short)
1979 Voie Express (short)
1980 Rupal 80 (short)
1981 Dévers (short)
1982 Patagonie Force 10 (short)
1983 Paroi en Coulisse (short)
Sérac (short)
1984 Corsicayak (short)
1985 L’Apocalypse 2 (short)
L’Oiseau rare (short)
Little Karim (short)
1986 La Lumière du Rocher (short)
Papy Pôle (short)