Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

Francis, who starred in the movies he directed and
the one he wrote (1920 La Fête espagnole, Germaine
Dulac). He never stopped writing in fi lm magazines
(1918 Paris Midi; 1923–1924 Bonsoir). In 1920, he
co-founded Le Journal du Ciné-Club and then, in 1921,
Cinéa. He was a pioneer of cine-clubs. His novel Le
Train sans Yeux was brought to the screen by Alberto
Cavalcanti in 1926, two years after his death from
tuberculosis. Other credit (as actor): 1921 Prométhée
. . . Banquier (Marcel L’Herbier). Books: 1919 Cinéma
et Cie (Grasset); 1920 Photogénie (De Brunhoff); 1921
Charlot (De Brunhoff; English edition: 1922 Charlie
Chaplin, John Lane, London; American edition: 1922
Charlie Chaplin, The Bodley Head Ltd., New York).
Filmography
1920 Le Silence (short)
Fumée noire (co-director with René Coiffard;
also screenwriter)
1921 Le Tonnerre (short; also screenwriter)
Le Chemin d’Ernoa / L’Américain ou Le Chemin
d’Ernoa / L’Américain / USA: Ernoa’s Way (codirector
with René Coiffard; also screenwriter)
Fièvre / La Boue (also screenwriter; the movie
was banned and then cut)
1922 La Femme de nulle Part (also screenwriter)
1924 L’Inondation (also screenwriter, adapter)
DELON, ALAIN (November 8, 1935, Sceaux,
Hauts-de-Seine, France–)
A former butcher apprentice in his adolescence and
an Indochina War veteran (1953–1954), he starred in
almost ninety fi lms from 1957 (Quand la Femme s’en
mêle / Godot / Die Killer lassen bitten / UK: When the
Woman Gets Confused / Send a Woman When the Devil
Fails / US TV: When a Woman Meddles, Yves Allégret,
France / Italy / West Germany) to 2008 (Astérix aux
Jeux Olympiques / Asterix bei den Olympischen Spielen,
Frédéric Forestier, France / Germany) working with
such great directors as René Clément (1960 Plein
Soleil / Delitto in pieno sole / UK: Blazing Sun / UK and
USA: Purple Noon / USA: Lust for Evil, France / Italy;
1961 Che gioia vivere / Quelle Joie de vivre! / UK and
USA: The Joy of Living, France / Italy; 1964 Les Félins /
UK: The Love Cage / USA: Joy House; 1966 Paris brûlet-il?
/ Is Paris Burning?, France / USA), Luchino Visconti
(1960 Rocco e I suoi fratelli / Rocco et ses Frères / UK
and USA: Rocco and His Brothers, France / Italy; 1963
Il Gattopardo / Le Guépard / UK and USA: The Leopard,
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France / Italy), Michelangelo Antonioni (1962 L’eclisse
/ L’Eclipse / UK: The Eclipse / USA: Eclipse, France /
Italy), Jean-Pierre Melville (1967 Le Samouraï / Frank
Costello, faccia d’angelo / USA: The Godson, France /
Italy; 1970 Le Cercle rouge / I senza nome / UK and
USA: The Red Circle, France / Italy; 1972 Un Flic / Notte
sulla città / USA: Dirty Money / US DVD: A Cop, France
/ Italy), and Joseph Losey (1972 The Assassination of
Trotsky / L’Assassinat de Trotsky / L’assassinio di Trotsky,
UK / Italy / France; 1976 Monsieur Klein / Chi è Mr.
Klein? / USA: Mr. Klein, France / Italy). He directed a
couple of action fi lms. From 1964 to 1968, he was
married to actress and directress Nathalie Delon (b.
1941). Their son is actor Anthony Delon (b. 1964).
Filmography
1981 Pour la Peau d’un Flic / USA: Whirlpool (also coscreenwriter,
co-adapter, actor)
1983 Le Battant / US video: Ice (also co-screenwriter,
actor)
DELON, NATHALIE (Francine Canovas / August
1, 1941, Oujda, Morocco–)
Having settled in Paris in 1960, she started her
working life as a cover girl. Married to actor Alain
Delon in 1964, she made her fi lm debut three years
later co-starring with him (1967 Le Samouraï / Frank
Costello, faccia d’angelo / USA: The Godson, Jean-Pierre
Melville, France / Italy). Seen in about thirty movies,
she directed a couple of motion pictures. She wrote
a novel (2006 Au plus fort de l’Orage, Editions Robert
Laffont) and an autobiography (2006 Pleure pas c’est
pas grave . . . , Editions Flammarion). Her son is actor
Anthony Delon (b. 1964).
Filmography
1982 Ils appellent ça un Accident / USA: They Call It an
Accident (co-director with Yves Deschamps;
also screenwriter, dialogist, actor, producer)
1987 Sweet Lies (alo co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)
DELOUCHE, DOMINIQUE (April 9, 1931, Paris,
France–)
Having trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he
became a painter. His knowledge of music (he is a
pianist) and his taste for dancing provided him the
material for most of the movies he directed. A fi lm
critic in the 1950s, he also was fi rst assistant director
to Federico Fellini (1955 Il Bidone / UK: The Swindlers
/ USA: The Swindle, Italy; 1957 Le notti di Cabiria / Les