Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

420 • GAILLARD, JACQUES
2001 J’ai tué Clémence Acéra / Es ist nie zu spät
(also screenwriter, dialogist, adapter, dialogist;
France / Germany)
GAILLARD, JACQUES (January 26, 1930, Paris,
France–)
He was mostly a fi lm editor and notably edited all
Claude Chabrol’s movies from 1958 (Le Beau Serge
/ UK and USA: Bitter Reunion / Handsome Serge) to
1974 (Les Innocents aux Mains sales / Gli Innocenti dalle
mani sporche / Die Unschuldigen mit den schmutzigen
Händen, France / Italy / West Germany).
Filmography
1964 La Ligne droite (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist; shot in 1961)
GAINSBOURG, SERGE (Lucien Ginzburg / April
2, 1928, Paris, France–March 2, 1991, Paris, France)
The son of Jewish Russian parents who settled in
France after the Bolshevik Revolution, he intended
to become a painter and attended the Beaux-Arts
school courses. Judging severely his own artistic
work, he renounced his true passion and earned his
living as a cabaret piano player. Infl uenced by Boris
Vian, he decided to write and perform songs. From
1958 to his death, he was at the same time one of
the most popular and much-debated French singers
and songwriters. He composed about fi fty fi lm scores
(from 1959 L’Eau à la Bouche / UK and USA: A Game
for Six Lovers, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, to 1992 Tous
les Garçons, short, Etienne Faure) and played more
than forty supporting roles on-screen (from 1959
Voulez-vous danser avec moi? / Sexy Girl / UK: Come
Dance with Me / USA: Come Dance with Me!, Michel
Boisrond, to 1990 Stan the Flasher, Serge Gainsbourg),
including a couple of sword-and-sandal fl icks in which
he portrayed memorable baddies (1960 La rivolta
degli schiavi / Rebelion de los esclavos / Die Sklaven Roms
/ USA: Revolt of the Slaves, Nunzio Malasomma, Italy /
Spain / West Germany; 1961 Sansone / Samson contre
Hercule / USA: Samson, Gianfranco Parolini, Italy /
France; 1962 La furia die Ercole / Hercule se déchaîne
/ USA: The Fury of Hercules / US TV: The Fury of Hercules,
Gianfranco Parolini, Italy / France) and Abraham
Polonsky’s Romance of a Horsethief / Le Roman d’un
Voleur de Chevaux (USA / France / Yugoslavia, 1971).
He died of a heart attack at age sixty-two. From
1968 to 1980, he was the companion of actress and
singer Jane Birkin (b. 1946). Their daughter is actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg (b. 1971).
Filmography
1976 Je t’aime, moi non plus / UK and USA: I Love
You, I Don’t (also screenwriter, dialogist, composer)
1980 Le Physique et le Figuré (short)
1983 Equateur (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist,
composer; France / Gabon)
1986 Charlotte For Ever (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor, composer)
1990 Stan the Flasher (also screenwriter, dialogist,
actor)
Television Filmography
1982 Cinéma, Cinémas (short; Remake Scarface)
GAINVILLE, RENÉ (René-Jacques de Geninville /
December 2, 1931, Budapest, Hungary–)
He studied in Hungary, where he was notably the pupil
of fi lm theoretician Béla Balázs, and started his fi lm career
as an assistant director. Having settled in France
in 1952, he directed fi fty shorts before shooting his
fi rst feature fi lm in 1966. He produced a few movies
(1989 Thank You Satan!, André Farwagi; 2001 Mikor siel
az oroszlan?, Zsolt Balogh, Hungary) and played in a
Hungarian TV series (1994 Kisvaros, episode “Tuniszi
kapessolat,” Lajos Fazekas, Adam Rozgonyi).
Filmography
1963 Tambi (short)
1966 L’Homme de Mykonos / De Man van Mykonos
(also co-screenwriter; France / Italy / Belgium)
1968 Le Démoniaque (shot in 1966)
1969 Un Jeune Couple / USA: A Young Couple (also
co-screenwriter)
1970 Alyse et Chloé / UK: Alyse and Chloe (also
screenwriter)
1973 Le Complot / Il complotto / El complot de los
rebeldes / Conspiracion para matar a un cura
(France / Italy / Spain)
1975 Le Pensionnat et ses Intimités (as Catherine
Balogh)
1979 L’Associé / Mein Partner Davis / UK and
USA: The Associate (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / West Germany)