Gilles Grangier

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Gilles Grangier (born May 5, 1911 in Paris , † April 28, 1996 in Suresnes ) was a French film director and screenwriter .

Life

Grangier came to film as a stuntman and extra. From 1933 he worked as an assistant director. His career in film was interrupted by military service and imprisonment. After his release he was able to make his first film as a director in 1942. Grangier also wrote the screenplay for many of his films and has written crime novels, dramas and comedies. He worked particularly often with the actor Jean Gabin , but also with other French stars of the time such as Fernandel and Jean Marais . In the last few years of his professional life, Grangier mainly shot for television.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1946: impostor on board (Rendezvous à Paris)
  • 1952: Love at 20 (L'Amour, Madame)
  • 1954: The Sunday Angler (Poisson d'Avril) - also screenplay
  • 1955: Roadblock (Gas-Oil) with Jean Gabin
  • 1956: Murder on Montmartre (Reproduction interdite) - also screenplay
  • 1956: Vulkan im Blut (Le sang à la tête) - also screenplay
  • 1957: Police action dynamite (Échec au porteur) - also script
  • 1958: In the cloak of the night (Le desordre de la nuit) - also screenplay
  • 1959: There is no free room in the Kittchen (Archimède le clochard) - also script
  • 1959: Tatort Paris (125 Rue Montmartre) - also screenplay
  • 1960: Heaven is already sold out (Le vieux de la vieille) - also script
  • 1961: The Lord with the Millions (Le cave se rebiffe) - also screenplay
  • 1962: A gentleman from the best of circles (Le gentleman d'Epsom) - also screenplay
  • 1963: Everything in butter (La cuisine au beurre)
  • 1963: Inspector Maigret sees red (Maigret voit rouge) - also script
  • 1964: Flegelalter (L'âge ingrat) - also screenplay
  • 1965: The Train to Hell (Train d'enfer) - also screenplay
  • 1965: The ladies ask (Les bons vivants)
  • 1967: The man with the Buick (L'homme à la Buick) - also script
  • 1971: Quentin Durward (TV series, 13 episodes)
  • 1974: Two years of vacation ( Deux ans de vacances , TV series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ... found work in the film studios of Billancourt, as walk-on, prop boy, stuntman, grip; then on to manager, assistant director and eventually director . Retrieved April 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 359.
personal data
SURNAME Grangier, Gilles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1996
Place of death Suresnes