Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

La Cigarette
1920 Malencontre
1921 La Belle Dame sans Merci
1922 La Mort du Soleil / German version: Die sterbende
Sonne / USA: The Death of the Sun
Werther (short)
1923 Gossette (six episodes: “La Nuit tragique,” “Le
Revenant,” “Face à Face,” “L’Embûche,” “Les
Lettres volées,” “La Vengeance du Mort”)
La Souriante Madame Beudet (short)
1925 Le Diable dans la Ville
Âme d’Artiste / USA: Heart of an Artist
1926 La Folie des Vaillants
1927 Le Cinéma au Service de l’Histoire (documentary)
L’Invitation au Voyage / USA: Invitation to a Journey
(short; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
producer)
1928 Antoinette Sabrier (also adapter; shot in 1928)
Thèmes et Variations (short)
La Princesse Mandane / L’Oublié
La Germination d’un Haricot (documentary;
short)
Disque 957 (short)
Danses espagnoles (short)
Celles qui s’en font (short)
La Coquille et le Clergyman / UK and USA: The
Seashell and the Clergyman (short; also coscreenwriter,
producer)
1929 Etude cinégraphique sur une Arabesque (short)
1934 Je n’ai plus rien (short; fi lmed song)
DULUD, MICHEL (January 11, 1902, Paris, France–
March 4, 1997, Avallon, Yonne, France–)
A playwright, he was also successively a screenwriter,
co-adapter, dialogist (1949 Tous les Deux, Louis Cuny;
1954 Ma Petite Folie, Maurice Labro; 1956 La Villa
Sans-Souci, Maurice Labro), co-screenwriter, co-dialogist
(1952 Jamais Deux sans Trois, André Berthomieu),
dialogist (1953 Le Petit Jacques, Robert Bibal), screenwriter
(1952 Allô . . . je t’aime!, also author of original
play, André Berthomieu), screenwriter, co-adapter,
and co-dialogist (1959 Soupe au Lait, Pierre Chevalier).
He brought to the screen two of his plays.
Filmography
1941 La Troisième Dalle (also author of original play,
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
1950 Banco de Prince (also author of original play,
screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
DUMONT, BERNARD • 345
DUMONT, BERNARD (March 17, 1942, Argenteuil,
Val-d’Oise, France–)
A former jazz pianist and then camera operator on
several documentaries, he became cinematographer
for TV working with such directors as Claude Santelli,
Jean Prat, and Jacques Doillon. By 1981, he began
writing and directing documentaries, TV movies, and
fi lms.
Filmography
1977 Blues, Blanc, Rouge (documentary; co-director
with Jean-Claude Brisson, Jean-Louis Cavalier,
Robert Réa)
2001 Ligne 208 (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist; shot in 1999)
Television Filmography
1982 Le Professeur jouait du Saxophone (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1985 Maguy (333 26'; co-director only: one episode)
1986 Les Conquérants de l’Impossible (3 52' documentary:
“Portrait de René Desmaison,” “Portrait
de Walter Bonatti,” “Portrait de Groupe
(Edlinger, Profi t, Berault)”)
1988 Tel Père, tel Fils (42 26'; co-director only:
twenty-fi ve episodes)
Vivement Lundi (104 26'; co-director only:
forty episodes)
Salut les Homards (96 26'; co-director only:
six episodes)
1989 Bordertown / Les Deux font la Loi (co-director
only: two episodes; Canada / USA / France)
1990 Mamie by Night
Counterstrike / Force de Frappe (TV series; episode
13; USA / Canada / France)
1992 Le Lyonnais (episode “Cérémonie religieuse”;
also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1993 Tribunal (episode “Question d’Education”)
Rocca (episode “Les Dératiseurs”)
Le Passage du Nord-Ouest (France / Canada)
1994 Extrême Limite (ten episodes)
1995 Les Cinq dernières Minutes (episode “Meurtres
à Ciel ouvert”)
1998 Ma Voyante préférée (twenty-fi ve episodes)
Le Legs
Cap des Pins / USA: The Tide of Life (TV series;
co-director only: six episodes)
2005 Plus Belle la Vie (twenty-fi ve episodes)