Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

268 • COWL, DARRY
1947 Hyménée (also screenwriter, adapter as Robert
Eyquem, producer, editor)
Un Sourire dans la Nature (short; also screenwriter)
1948 Colomba (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist
as Robert Eyquem, producer)
1949 Le Bout de la Route (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist as Robert Eyquem, producer)
1950 Un Trou dans le Mur (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist as Robert Eyquem,
producer)
Trois Marins dans un Couvent (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist as Robert Eyquem,
producer)
Le Cauchemar d’Hortense Pingouin (mediumlength;
also screenwriter, dialogist as Robert
Eyquem, producer)
1951 Le Don d’Adèle (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist as Robert Eyquem, producer)
1952 Ce Coquin d’Anatole (also screenwriter, adapter,
co-dialogist, producer)
Buridan, Héros de la Tour de Nesle (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer)
Trois Vieilles Filles en Folie (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer)
Le Curé de Saint-Amour (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer)
1953 Quand te tues-tu? (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist, producer)
La Famille Cucuroux (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1954 Trois Jours de Bringue à Paris (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist, producer)
Le Congrès des Belles-Mères (also screenwriter,
dialogist, producer)
1956 Mon Curé Champion de Régiment (also screenwriter,
adapter, dialogist)
1957 Trois Marins en Bordée (also screenwriter, dialogist
as Robert Eyquem, producer)
1959 Quai des Ilusions / La legge mi incolpa (also
screenwriter, dialogist, producer, editor;
France / Italy; shot in 1956)
1962 Césarin joue les “Etroits Mousquetaires” (also
screenwriter, dialogist, producer)
COWL, DARRY (André Darricau / August 27, 1925,
Vittel, Vosges, France–February 14, 2006, Neuilly-sur-
Seine, France)
After studying music at the Paris Conservatory, he
became a barroom piano player before making his
acting debut in Parisian cabarets. He wasted his real
talent starring or co-starring in cheap comedies of
the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (more than 120
movies from 1955 Bonjour Sourire, Claude Sautet, to
2005 La Vie privée, Zina Modiano) with some notable
exceptions (1957 Les Trois font la Paire, Sacha Guitry,
Clément Duhour; Assassins et Voleurs / UK: Murderers
and Thieves / USA: Lovers and Thieves, Sacha Guitry;
1965 Les Tribulations d’un Chinois en Chine / L’uomo
di Hong Kong / UK and USA: Up to His Ears / USA:
Chinese Adventures in China, Philippe de Broca, France
/ Italy; 1974 Touche pas à la Femme blanche / Non toccare
la donna bianca / US video: Don’t Touch the White
Woman, Marco Ferreri, France / Italy; 1999 Augustin,
Roi du Kung-Fu / USA: Augustin, King of Kung-Fu, Anne
Fontaine; 2003 Pas sur la Bouche / USA: Not on the Lips,
Alain Resnais, France / Italy). He wrote the dialogue
of a Jean Delannoy segment (“La Répétition”) of Le Lit
à Deux Places / Racconti a due piazze / USA: The Double
Bed (France / Italy). Other credits (as composer):
1967 Ces Messieurs de la Famille (Raoul André); 1969
Le Bourgeois Gentil Mec (Raoul André); 1970 Ces Messieurs
de la Gâchette (Raoul André); 1973 Le Concierge
(Jean Girault); 1976 Le Jour de Gloire / Ein Priester, ein
Panzer und ein Haufen müder landser (Jacques Besnard,
France / West Germany); 1977 Arrête ton Char . . . Bidasse!
/ Oh, la-la—Die kleinen Blonden sind da (Michel
Gérard, France / West Germany); 1978 Général . . .
nous voilà! (Jacques Besnard). He authored two autobiographies:
1996 Débit de Paroles (L’Archipel); 2005
Mémoires d’un Canaillou (Editions Numéro 1).
Filmography
1964 Jaloux comme un Tigre (co-director with Maurice
Delbez; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
co-composer, actor)
COZARINSKY, EDGARDO (January 13, 1939,
Buenos Aires, Argentina–)
The grandson of Russian immigrants, he co-wrote several
movies (1967 Los traidores de San Angel, Leopoldo
Torre Nilsson, Argentina / USA / Mexico / Chile /
Puerto Rico; 1979 Beto nervio contra el poder de las
tinieblas, Miguel Bejo, Argentina; La Mémoire courte,
Eduardo de Gregorio) and appeared as an actor in
Argentinian and French fi lms (1971 La familia unida esperando
la llegada de Hallewyn, Miguel Bejo, Argentina;