Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

1960 Les Vieux de la Veille / Gli allegri veterani / UK:
The Old Guard (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy)
1961 Le Cave se rebiffe / Il re dei falsari / UK: The
Counterfeiters / USA: Money Money Money /
The Counterfeiters of Paris (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1962 Le Gentleman d’Epsom / Les Grands Seigneurs /
Il re delle corse / UK: Duke of the Derby / USA:
The Gentleman from Epsom (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter; France / Italy)
1963 Le Voyage à Biarritz (also co-screenwriter, coadapter;
France / Italy)
Maigret voit rouge / Maigret e i Gangsters (also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)
La Cuisine au Beurre / La cucina al burro / UK
and USA: My Wife’s Husband (also uncredited
actor; France / Italy)
1964 L’Âge ingrat (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
1965 Les Bons Vivants / Un Grand Seigneur / Per favore
chiudete le persiane / UK: High Lifers / USA:
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning / US TV:
Keep the Red Light Burning (segments “La Fermeture,”
“Le Procès”; France / Italy)
Train d’Enfer / Danger dimensione morte /
Trampa bajo el sol / US TV: Operation Double
Cross (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter;
France / Italy / Spain)
1967 Une Cigarette pour un Ingénu (unfi nished)
1968 L’Homme à la Buick (also screenwriter, adapter;
shot in 1966)
1969 Sous le Signe du Taureau (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1972 Un Cave (also co-adapter, dialogist)
1974 Gross Paris (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Television Filmography
1967 Max le Débonnaire (episode “Un Petit Jules”)
1970 Les Enquêteurs associés (episode “La Mort
d’une Louve”)
1971 Quentin Durward (7 55')
1973 Les Mohicans de Paris (26 15')
1974 Deux Ans de Vacances / Zwei Jahren Ferien
(France / Romania / Belgium / Switzerland /
West Germany)
1975 Insula comorilor (co-director with Sergiu Nicolaescu;
Romania / West Germany)
Piratii din Pacifi c (co-director with Sergiu Nicolaescu;
Romania / West Germany)
1977 Ne le dites pas avec des Roses (26 13')
Banlieue Sud-Est (TV miniseries)
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1979 Les Insulaires (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
Histoires de Voyous (episode “L’Elégant”; also
co-screenwriter, co-adapter)
Histoires insolites (episode “Le Locataire d’en
haut”; also co-screenwriter)
1980 Jean-Sans-Terre (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
L’Aéropostale, Courrier du Ciel (6 80')
1982 Les Brigades vertes
Guillaume le Conquérant / Wilhelm Cucerotorul /
Cucerirea Angliei / USA: William the Conqueror
(6 52'; co-director with Sergiu Nicolaescu;
France / Romania / Switzerland)
1985 Brigade verte (8 52'; co-director only)
GRANIER-DEFERRE, DENYS (December 27,
1949, Paris, France–)
The son of director Pierre Granier-Deferre, he was
an assistant director for ten years, notably to his
father (1971 Le Chat / Le Chat—L’implacabile uomo di
Saint Germain / UK and USA: The Cat, Pierre Granier-
Deferre, France / Italy; 1973 Le Grand Bazar, Claude
Zidi; Le Train / Noi due senza domani / UK: The Train
/ US DVD: The Last Train, Pierre Granier-Deferre,
France / Italy; 1974 Les Quatre Charlots Mousquetaires
/ UK: The Four Charlots Musketeers, André Hunebelle;
La Race des Seigneurs / L’arrivista / USA: Creezy, Pierre
Granier-Deferre, France / Italy; A nous Quatre Cardinal!
/ UK: The Four Charlots Musketeers 2, André Hunebelle;
Le Secret / Il segreto / UK and USA: The Secret, Robert
Enrico, France / Italy; Mes Petites Amoureuses, Jean Eustache;
1975 Section spéciale / L’affare della sezione speciale
/ Sondertribunal—Jeder kämpft für sich allein / UK
and USA: Special Section, Costa-Gavras, France / Italy
/ West Germany; Sept Morts sur Ordonnance / Quartett
bestial / Siete muertos por prescripcion facultativa,
Jacques Rouffi o, France / West Germany / Spain; 1976
Duelle (Une Quarantaine) / Duelle, Jacques Rivette; Une
Femme fi dèle, Roger Vadim; 1977 René la Canne / Tre
simpatiche carogne, Francis Girod, France / Italy; 1978
L’Amant de Poche / UK: Lover Boy, Bernard Queysanne;
L’Etat sauvage / UK and USA: Savage State, Francis
Girod; 1979 Saint Jack, Peter Bogdanovich, USA; Le
Toubib, Pierre Granier-Deferre; Buffet froid / UK and
USA: Cold Cuts, Bertrand Blier; 1981 Psy, Philippe de
Broca; Condorman, Charles Jarrott, UK; Beau-Père /
UK: Stepfather / USA: Beau Pere, Bertrand Blier). He
also was a technical adviser (1982 T’empêches tout le
Monde de dormir, Gérard Lauzier) and played in TV
movies and feature-length fi lms (1982 Merci Bernard,