Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

348 • DUPONTEL, ALBERT
Moissons d’aujourd’hui (documentary; short)
Okoumé (documentary; short)
Palmes (documentary; short)
Voilà (n)vous! (documentary; short)
1953 A tout casser (short)
1954 L’Enfant au Fennec (short)
1955 Coureurs de Brousse (documentary; short)
1956 Crèvecoeur / Heartbreak Ridge (documentary;
shot in 1953–1954)
1959 La Passe du Diable / I fi gli di Gengis-Khan / El
desfi ladero del Diablo (co-director with Pierre
Schoendoerffer; shot in 1956–1957; France /
Italy / Spain)
1960 Les Distractions / Le distrazioni / UK and USA:
Trapped by Fear (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy)
1967 Demain Roissy en France (documentary; short)
1971 Les Chantiers de Roissy en France (documentary;
short)
1978 Paris (documentary; short)
Television Filmography
1990 Les Sacrifi és d’Orves
DUPONTEL, ALBERT (January 11, 1964, Saint-
Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France–)
He grew up in a Parisian suburb. After studying medicine,
he attended drama courses with Yves Pignot and
Antoine Vitez. He performed onstage and earned his
living as stuntman at the Opera. He played in about
thirty fi lms (from 1988 La Bande des Quatre / USA:
The Gang of Four / US DVD: Gang of Four, Jacques
Rivette, to 2009 Micmacs à Tire-Larigot, Jean-Pierre
Jeunet), including those he directed.
Filmography
1992 Désiré (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist,
actor)
1996 Bernie (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor)
1999 Le Créateur / USA: The Creator (also co-screenwriter,
co-dialogist, actor)
2006 Enfermés dehors (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
2009 Le Vilain (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)
DUPONT-MIDY, FRANÇOIS (1939, France–)
Having trained as an assistant director (1961 Le Rendez-
Vous, Jean Delannoy, France / Italy; 1964 Les Amitiés par-
ticulières / UK and USA: This Special Friendship, Jean Delannoy;
1965 Le Majordome / Operazione maggiordomo,
Jean Delannoy, France / Italy; Buffalo Bill, l’eroe del Far
West / Buffalo Bill, le Héros du Far West / L’Attaque de Fort
Adams / Das war Buffalo Bill / UK and USA: Buffalo Bill,
Hero of the Far West / USA: Buffalo Bill, John W. Fordson
= Mario Costa, Italy / France / West Germany; 1966 Les
Sultans / L’amante italiana, Jean Delannoy, France / Italy;
1967 Le Soleil des Voyous / Il più grande colpo del secolo /
UK: Leather and Nylon / USA: Action Man, Jean Delannoy,
France / Italy / West Germany), he started his directing
career fi lming a segment of Le Lit à Deux Places. Other
credit (as collaborator): 1966 Le Deuxième Souffl e / UK
and USA: Second Breath (Jean-Pierre Melville).
Filmography
1965 Le Lit à deux Places / Racconti a due piazze
(co-director with Jean Delannoy and Gianni
Puccini, segment “Le Monsieur de Passage”;
France / Italy)
1970 Pour un Sourire (also screenwriter, adapter)
1975 Vous ne l’emporterez pas avec vous (also coscreenwriter)
Television Filmography
1974 Valérie (40x13’)
1976 Commissaire Moulin (episode “Intox”)
1978 Les Yeux bleus (6 52')
1980 Julien Fontanes, Magistrat (episode “Par la
Bande”)
1981 Julien Fontanes, Magistrat (episodes “Le Soulier
d’Or,” “La Dernière Haie”)
1982 Bonbons en gros (also co-screenwriter)
Julien Fontanes, Magistrat (episode “Une Fine
Lame”)
1984 Opération O.P.E.N. (episodes “Le Grand Chaos,”
“Un Amour de loin”)
1986 L’Homme au Képi noir (36 13'; co-director)
Oscar et Valentin (also co-screenwriter)
1991 Bébé Express
DUPOUEY, PIERRE
Mostly a cinematographer (about twenty movies
from 1971 Le Coeur renversé, short, Maurice Frydland,
to 2001 Skoot hansawwar / Silence . . . on tourne /
USA: Silence . . . We’re Rolling, Youssef Chahine, Egypt /
France), he directed a feature fi lm and a TV movie.
Filmography
1992 Vincennes Neuilly (also screenwriter, dialogist)