Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

230 • CLOUZOT, CLAIRE
Peppino e Violetta / UK: Never Take No for an
Answer (also co-screenwriter; Italy / UK)
1952 Domenica (also adapter, co-dialogist, producer)
Rayé des Vivants (also producer)
Images d’Argile (documentary; short)
1953 Moineaux de Paris (also adapter, producer)
Le Mont Saint-Michel (documentary; short)
1954 Nuits andalouses / Noches andaluzas (also coadapter,
co-producer; France / Spain)
1955 Un Missionnaire (also producer)
1957 Quand vient l’Amour / Ko pride ljubezen / Kad
dodje ljubav (also co-adapter, co-dialogist, coproducer;
shot in 1955)
Adorables Démons (also co-dialogist; coproducer)
Marchands de Filles / USA: Girls Merchants /
Sellers of Girls (also screenwriter, dialogist)
Ca aussi . . . c’est Paris (documentary; short)
1958 Prisons de Femmes (also co-adapter)
1959 Filles de Nuit / La legge del vizio / Denn keiner ist
ohne Sünde / USA: Girls of the Night (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy / West
Germany; shot in 1957)
Le Fric / La grana (also screenwriter, producer;
France / Italy)
Bal de Nuit (also screenwriter)
1960 Touchez pas aux Blondes (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1961 Cocagne / Fernandel scopa e pennel (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1963 La Porteuse de Pain / La portatrice di pane /
USA: The Bread Peddler (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)
1964 Requiem pour un Caïd (also co-screenwriter)
Coplan Agent secret FX 18 / Uccidete agente
segreto 777—stop / Accion en Mallorca / Orden:
FX 18 / USA: FX 18, Secret Agent (France / Italy
/ Spain)
1966 Baraka sur X 13 / Agente X-77— ordine di
uccidere / Operacion Silencio / UK: Agent X-77
Orders to Kill / USA: Baraka X-77 / Baraka
for Secret Service (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy)
1967 Le Vicomte règle ses Comptes / The Viscount:
Furto alla banca mondiale / Atraco al hampo
/ UK and USA: The Viscount (France / Italy /
Spain)
1968 Le Tueur aime les Bonbons / Un Killer per sua
maestà / Zucker für den Mörder / UK and USA:
The Killer Likes Candy (also co-screenwriter;
co-director with Richard Owens = Federico
Chentrens; France / Italy / West Germany)
1973 Mais toi tu es Pierre (shot in 1971)
Television Filmography
1974 Le Chevalier de Janjoie (TV miniseries)
1978 Les Hommes de Rose (6 52')
1981 Le Mari, la Femme et le Cosmos
La Guerre des Chaussettes
1983 Dessin sur un Trottoir (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
CLOUZOT, CLAIRE (August 2, 1933, Paris,
France–)
The niece of fi lmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot, she
was a reporter, journalist, fi lm critic (notably for the
review Ecran), trainee editor, and script supervisor on
Agnès Varda’s and Claude Lelouch’s movies. She authored
several books: 1972 Le Cinéma français depuis
la Nouvelle Vague (Fernand Nathan / Alliance française);
1976 Autobiographie d’une Pionnière du Cinéma: 1873–
1968 (collective book, Gonthier); Paroles, elles tournent
(collective book, Editions des Femmes); 1999 William
Klein Films (Editions Marval); 2004 Catherine Breillat:
Indécence et Pureté (Cahiers du Cinéma).
Filmography
1981 L’Homme fragile (also screenwriter, dialogist)
1986 Rémy Duval, 28 Place des Vosges (short)
CLOUZOT, HENRI-GEORGES (November 20,
1907, Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France–January 12, 1977,
Paris, France)
The son of a former book shopper turned auctioneer,
he intended to prepare for naval school, but his myopia
thwarted his projects. He opted for a diplomatic
career and enrolled in the Sciences Po but soon
switched to journalism as columnist at Paris-Matin.
Hired as a secretary by chansonnier René Dorin, he
wrote sketches for his boss and another cabaret artist,
Mauricet. Encouraged by screenwriter Henri Jeanson,
he entered fi lms as a screenwriter (1931 Le Chanteur
inconnu, as co-adapter, Victor Tourjansky; Je serai seul
après Minuit, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Jacques
de Baroncelli; Ma Cousine de Varsovie, Carmine Gallone;
Un Soir de Rafl e, as adapter, Carmine Gallone; 1932
La Chanson d’une Nuit, as adapter, dialogist, Frenchlanguage
version of Das Lied einer Nacht, Anatole