Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

28 • ARNAUD, MICHÈLE
Saved from the Titanic / UK: A Survivor of the
Titanic (short; unconfi rmed; USA)
The Guardian Angel (short; USA)
The High Cost of Living (short; USA)
The Holy City (short; USA)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (short; USA)
The Letter with the Black Seals (short; also
screenwriter; USA)
The White Aprons (short; USA)
1913 A Tammany Boarder (short; also screenwriter;
USA)
Apply to Janitor (short; USA)
Loaded (short; USA)
Oh! You Rubber! (short; USA)
Roaring Bill (short; USA)
The Spectre Bridgeroom (short; USA)
Trouble on the Stage (short; USA)
1914 An Enchanted Voice (short; USA)
Cue and Miss Cue (short; USA)
Duty (short; USA)
The Dancer and the King (short; USA)
The Electric Girl (short; USA)
The Snake Charmer (short; USA)
Valentine’s Day (short; USA)
ARNAUD, MICHÈLE (Micheline Caré / March 18,
1919, Toulon, Var, France–March 30, 1998, Maisons-
Laffi tte, Yvelines, France)
Parallel to her studies of literature and law, she
frequented such cabarets as Le Tabou and La Rose
Rouge. She made her debut as singer at Milord
l’Arsouille in 1952. In the early 1960s, she switched
to production for TV (1963 Les Raisins verts, variety
show, also co-screenwriter, Jean-Christophe Averty;
1966–1968 Tilt Magazine, variety show, Pierre Desfons,
Jean-Pierre Spiero; 1967 Anna, TV movie, Pierre
Koralnik) and fi lms (1972 Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii /
Pink Floyd à Pompéi / Pink Floyd in Pompeii / Pink Floyd /
USA: Echoes: Pink Floyd, as associate producer; Adrian
Maben, France / Belgium / West Germany; 1976 Oskar
Kokoschka, documentary, as associate producer,
Gianpaolo Tescari; 1978 Monsieur René Magritte /
USA: Magritte, documentary, medium-length, Adrian
Maben, West Germany / France). She appeared as
herself in half a dozen episodes of Ni Figue ni Raisin
(1964–1965) and in a musical TV short (1965 Seul à
Seul / Onder vier ogen, Serge Leroy, Belgium). Her son
is former singer Dominique Waller (b. 1942), and her
daughter is photographer Florence Gruère (b. 1943).
Filmography
1974 Virage à 80 (documentary; also screenwriter,
producer)
ARNAUDY, ANTOINE (Marius Joseph Alexis
Guarino / July 17, 1881, Marseille, Bouches-du-
Rhône, France–November 1, 1969, Saint-Etienne,
Loire, France)
A stage actor and director (he had his own troupe),
he played in about twenty fi lms from 1932 (Un Coup
de Téléphone, Georges Lacombe) to 1953 (Carnaval,
Henri Verneuil). Best remembered for his performances
in Marcel Pagnol’s Cigalon (1935) and Topaze
(1936), he co-directed a movie in 1932.
Filmography
1932 Direct au Cœur / Un Direct au Cœur (co-director
with Roger Lion)
ARNOLD, PASCAL
He entered fi lms as a screenplay consultant for Ciby
2000 before founding his own company, Arcandes,
in 1993. Five years later, he created another society,
Toloda, which notably produced the movies he cowrote
and co-directed with Jean-Marc Barr. He collaborated
as a screenwriter on the following movies:
1999 Lovers (also delegate producer; Jean-Marc Barr),
2000 Rats and Rabbits (Lewis Furey; Canada / France),
2002 Les Fils de Marie (also delegate producer, cinematographer;
Carole Laure; Canada / France), and
2007 Darling (Christine Carrière).
Filmography
2001 Too Much Flesh (co-director with Jean-Marc
Barr; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, delegate
producer, cinematographer; shot in
1999)
Being Light (co-director with Jean-Marc Barr;
also co-screenwriter, delegate producer, cinematographer)
2006 Chacun sa Nuit (co-director with Jean-Marc
Barr; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, delegate
producer; France / Denmark)
ARNOUX, STÉPHANE (December 6, 1976, Paris,
France–)
After obtaining a degree in spectacle arts, stage, and
cinema (1998); a master’s of theater studies from
Paris X University (his thesis was titled A Brechtian