Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

trainee editor and shot TV documentaries (including
one on his foster father, Le Braconnier) and reports
before switching to fi lmmaking and acting (more than
fi fty movies from 1970 La Ville-Bidon / La Décharge,
also co-screenwriter, Jacques Baratier, to 2008 Plus
Tard / Canada and USA: One Day You’ll Understand,
Amos Gitai, France / Germany / Israel). He was formerly
married to actress Anna Karina (b. 1940).
Filmography
1969 Le Mariage de Clovis (short; also screenwriter)
1974 Le Voyage d’Amélie (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1977 L’Ombre des Châteaux (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
1979 La Dérobade / UK: The Getaway / The Life /
USA: Memoirs of a French Whore (also coadapter,
actor)
1981 L’Amour trop fort (also screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, actor)
1983 L’Effraction (also co-adapter, co-dialogist)
2006 Le Temps des Porte-Plumes / UK: A Year in My
Life / USA: The Time of the Pen-Holder (also coscreenwriter,
co-dialogist, actor)
Television Filmography
1984 Série noire (episode “Un Chien écrasé”; also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist;
1987
France / Switzerland / Italy / Luxembourg /
Hungary)
Série noire (episode “Lorfou”; France / Switzerland
/ Italy / Luxembourg / Hungary)
1990 Mais qui arrêtera la pluie? / Sale Temps pour
l’Assassin (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist, actor)
Les lendemains qui tuent (also actor)
DUVIVIER, JULIEN (October 3, 1896, Lille, Nord,
France–October 30, 1967, Paris, France)
Educated at a Jesuit school, he briefl y studied at
Lille University before opting for an acting career.
He moved to Paris, where he was an assistant to
André Antoine and played at the Odéon in 1915. Two
years later, he became an assistant director (1917 Le
Coupable, André Antoine; Les Travailleurs de la Mer,
two episodes, André Antoine; Les Frères corses / UK
and USA: The Corsican Brothers, André Antoine; 1919
Tih-Minh, four episodes, Louis Feuillade; 1921 Quatre-
Vingt-Treize, Albert Capellani started shooting the fi lm
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in 1914 before leaving for the USA, and then André
Antoine completed and edited it in 1917; banned
during World War I, the movie was fi nally released
in 1921; La Terre, André Antoine; 1922 L’Agonie des
Aigles, two episodes: “Le Roi de Rome,” “Les ‘Demi-
Soldes,’” also screenwriter, adapter, Bernard-Deschamps;
L’Arlésienne, André Antoine) and then screenwriter
(1921 Crépuscule d’Epouvante, Henri Etiévant).
A fi lm director since 1919, he joined Charles Delac
and Marcel Vandal’s Le Film d’Art in 1925. He died of
a heart attack behind the wheel of his car in 1967.
Filmography
1919 Haceldama ou Le Prix du Sang (also screenwriter,
producer, cinematographer, editor)
1920 La Réincarnation de Serge Renaudier (movie
destroyed by fi re before being released)
1922 Le Logis de l’Horreur (also screenwriter, producer)
Les Roquevillard (also screenwriter, adapter,
producer)
L’Ouragan sur la Montagne / USA: The Hurricane
on the Mountain (also co-screenwriter)
1923 Le Refl et de Claude Mercoeur / USA: The Refl
ection of Claude Mercoeur (also screenwriter,
adapter, producer)
1924 Credo ou La Tragédie de Lourdes (also screenwriter,
producer)
Cœurs farouches (also co-screenwriter, producer)
1925 L’œuvre immortelle / Wat eeuwig blijft (also coscreenwriter;
France / Belgium)
L’Abbé Constantin (also screenwriter, adapter)
1926 Poil de Carotte (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
L’Homme à l’Hispano
1927 L’Agonie de Jérusalem (also screenwriter)
Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (also
screenwriter, adapter)
1928 Le Mystère de la Tour Eiffel / Les Frères Mironton
/ T.S.F.—Tramel s’en fout . . .
1929 Le Tourbillon de Paris / USA: The Maelstrom of
Paris (also screenwriter, adapter)
La Divine Croisière / USA: The Divine Voyage
(also screenwriter)
La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin / USA: The
Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux (also screenwriter,
adapter)
1930 Maman Colibri / USA: Mother Hummingbird
(also co-adapter)
Au Bonheur des Dames