Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

470 • GRIMAULT, PAUL
Le Diable souffl e / USA: Woman of Evil (also
screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)
1948 Noose / USA: The Silk Noose (UK)
Neit tevergreefs / But Not in Vain (shot in double
version; Netherlands / UK)
1949 The Romantic Age / USA: Naughty Arlette (UK)
1951 Die Bilderschnitzer vom Walsertal (West Germany)
1953 L’Envers du Paradis (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1955 Le Port du Désir / USA: House on the Waterfront
Tant qu’il y aura des Femmes
1956 Je plaide non Coupable / UK and USA: Guilty?
(also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France
/ UK)
1958 Quand sonnera Midi / Plotone di esecuzione
(France / Italy)
1959 L’Île du Bout du Monde / UK: Temptation Island
/ USA: Temptation (also co-screenwriter, coadapter)
1960 Beat Girl / USA: Wild for Kicks (UK)
Les Mains d’Orlac / The Hands of Orlac / USA:
Hands of a Strangler / Hands of a Strangler
(shot in double version; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist as Max Montagut;
France / UK)
1961 Les Menteurs / UK: House of Sin / USA: The
Liars / Twisted Lives (also co-screenwriter, coadapter,
co-dialogist as Max Montagut)
1963 L’Accident / USA: The Accident (also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter, co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1964 Dossiers de Guerre secrète: Les Exploits de Jim
Laloy (episode “Péril au Paradis”; also dialogist)
GRIMAULT, PAUL (March 23, 1905, Neuilly-sur-
Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France–March 29, 1994, Le
Mesnil-Saint-Denis, Yvelines, France)
The son of an archaeologist, he studied commercial
art at the Ecole d’Art appliqué Germain Pilon (1919–
1922). From 1923 to 1930, he worked in advertising
as an actor, production designer, cameraman, director,
and screenwriter with the collaboration of Jean
Aurenche, Jean Anouilh, Marcel Carné, Yves Allégret,
Jacques Prévert, and Max Ernst. An artistic director
for the Les Gémeaux society, he began directing
animated fi lms (1936–1950). In 1952, he created his
own production company, Les Films Paul Grimault.
He played in a few movies (1934 L’Atalante / Le
Chaland qui passe, Jean Vigo; L’Hôtel du Libre Echange,
Marc Allégret; 1935 Le Crime de Monsieur Lange /
USA: The Crime of Monsieur Lange, Jean Renoir; 1957
Paris mange son Pain, short, Pierre Prévert; 1962 Le
Pèlerinage, short, Jean L’Hôte). Other credit (as author
of animated sequences): 1962 Mourir à Madrid (documentary,
Frédéric Rossif).
Filmography
1929 Brummel (animated short)
1931 L’Armoire (animated short)
1932 La Table tournante (animated short; co-director
with Jean Aurenche)
1936 Monsieur Pipe fait de la Peinture (animated
short; also screenwriter; unfi nished)
1937 Concours de Pêche Lesieur (animated short)
Phénomènes électriques (animated short; also
screenwriter)
1938 Le Messager de la Lumière (animated short;
also screenwriter)
1939 Gô chez les Oiseaux (animated short; the shooting
of the fi lm was interrupted by the war and
resumed in 1941 under the title Les Passagers
de la Grande Ourse; also screenwriter)
1942 Le Marchand de Notes (animated short; also
co-screenwriter)
1943 L’Epouvantail / USA: The Scarecrow (animated
short; also co-screenwriter)
1944 Le Voleur de Paratonnerres (animated short; also
co-screenwriter)
1945 Niglo Reporter (animated short)
1946 La Flûte magique (animated short; also screenwriter)
1947 Le Petit Soldat (animated short; also co-screenwriter,
co-adapter)
1952 La Bergère et le Ramoneur / UK: The Shepherdess
and the Chimneysweep / USA: Adventures of
Mr. Wonderful / The Curious Adventures of Mr.
Wonderful (animation; also co-screenwriter;
shot in 1947–1950)
Pierres oubliées (animated short)
1956 Enrico Cuisinier (short; also screenwriter)
1957 La Faim du Monde / La Faim dans le Monde
(animated short; also co-screenwriter)
1969 Le Diamant (animated short; also co-screenwriter)
1973 Le Chien mélomane (animated short; also coscreenwriter)
1980 Le Roi et l’Oiseau / UK and USA: The King and
the Mockingbird (animation; Paul Grimault