François Villiers

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François Villiers (born March 2, 1920 in Paris , † January 29, 2009 in Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine , France ), holder of the order Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur , was a French director and screenwriter .

life and work

François Villiers was born in 1920 under the real name François Salomons as the son of Alexandre Salomons, owner of the linen shop La Maison Du Blanc , and Suzanne Cahen. The father Villiers, whose family came from Holland , was Jewish ; his mother a French woman . His older brother was the well-known actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911-2001). His mother's uncle was the famous actor Georges Berr (1867–1942).

François Villiers, a discreet, talented and sensitive man, made a dozen notable films. He made his debut with the drama Die Hafenbar von Marseille ( Hans le marin , 1949 ) which he shot together with Lilli Palmer , Jean-Pierre Aumont and his wife, the Dominican actress María Montez (1912-1951) in 1948. His works include Manika, une vie plus tard ( 1989 ) for which he received the audience award in Cannes . In Hollywood he received for the natural drama When the tide comes in ( L'eau vive , 1958 ) - by Jean Giono with Pascale Audret in the role of Hortense, who for best actress with the Etoile de Cristal was awarded - in 1959 the Golden Globe for the best foreign language film. The films Green Harvest ( La Verte Moisson , 1959 ) with Jacques Perrin and Claude Brasseur , Pierrot la tendresse ( 1960 ) with Michel Simon and The Corsican Son ( Jusqu'au bout du monde ) - for which he won the French Cinema Grand Prix that year 1962 got - and The Three Truths ( Le Puits aux trois vérités , 1961 ) and The Murder That Happened Twice ( Constance aux enfers , 1963 ) with Michèle Morgan were other well-known films by him.

In the mid-1960s Villiers turned to television and created a number of renowned television series such as Les Chevaliers du ciel ( 1967 - 1970 ) and Jean-Christophe ( 1978 ) for a presentation of the Nobel Prize winner for literature, Romain Rolland . He also shot the German-French co-production Sun Horses ( Les Chevaux du soleil , 1980 ) by the French writer Jules Roy, in which Götz George and Gila von Weitershausen participated, as well as Quelques hommes de bonne volonté ( 1983 ) by the French novelist Jules Romains , a Adaptation by the author Marcel Jullian .

As a director of popular film and television productions, he was known for depicting complex issues. Villiers also wrote the scripts for many of his films, such as The Port Bar of Marseille , The Three Truths or Manika, une vie plus tard , his last film.

François Villiers died on January 29, 2009, the 8th anniversary of his brother Jean-Pierre Aumont's death , at the age of 88 in Boulogne-Billancourt in the Hauts-de-Seine department.

Honors and prizes

Filmography

Director

  • 1948: The port bar of Marseille , reference title: The whore and her fool (Hans le marin)
  • 1958: Le foulard de Smyrne
  • 1958: When the tide comes (L'eau vive)
  • 1959: La duchesse
  • 1959: Green harvest (La verte moisson)
  • 1960: Pierrot la tendresse
  • 1961: The three truths (Le puits aux trois vérités)
  • 1962: Fumée, histoire et fantaisie
  • 1963: The Corsican son (Jusqu'au bout du monde)
  • 1963: The Murder That Happened Twice (Constance aux enfers)
  • 1964: L'autre femme
  • 1966: L'affaire du camion
  • 1966: Un beau dimanche (TV movie)
  • 1967–1970: Les chevaliers du ciel (TV series, 20 episodes)
  • 1971: Le miroir 2000 (TV series)
  • 1972: Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1973: Graf Luckner (Les aventures du capitaine Lückner) (TV series, unknown number of episodes)
  • 1974: Le soleil se lève à l'est (miniseries)
  • 1975: L'idiote (TV movie)
  • 1977: C'est arrivé à Paris (TV film)
  • 1978: Jean-Christophe (TV series)
  • 1980: Sun horses (Les chevaux du soleil) (TV series, 12 episodes)
  • 1983: Quelques hommes de bonne volonté (miniseries)
  • 1989: Manika, une vie plus tard

script

  • 1948: The port bar of Marseille (Hans le marin)
  • 1959: La duchesse
  • 1961: Le puits aux trois vérités
  • 1963: Jusqu'au bout du monde - adaptation
  • 1964: L'autre femme
  • 1966: Un beau dimanche - adaptation (TV movie)
  • 1967–1970: Les chevaliers du ciel (TV series, 23 episodes)
  • 1978: Jean-Christophe (TV series) - adaptation
  • 1983: Quelques hommes de bonne volonté - Adaptation (miniseries)
  • 1989: Manika, une vie plus tard

actor

  • 1993: L'éternel mari - as Serge Pogoretz (TV movie)

Remaining staff

  • 1976: Le siècle des lumières - stage manager (TV film)

Assistant director

  • 1945: Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires

Further appearances

  • 1999: Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires - as himself (TV movie)
  • 2003: Histoires de fiction - as himself (TV series)
  • 2008: Mémoires du cinéma francais, de la libération à nos jours - as himself

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film year according to Die Hafenbar von Marseille in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used
  2. ↑ Kabelein's series dictionary  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 19, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kabeleins.de  
  3. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on toutlecine.com; Retrieved September 18, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.toutlecine.com
personal data
SURNAME Villiers, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salomons, François (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2009
Place of death Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , France