Jacques Colombier (film architect)

Jacques Etienne Colombier (born November 9, 1901 in Compiègne , † February 12, 1988 in Paris ) was a French film architect .

Life

Jacques Etienne Colombier received his artistic training at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts . Immediately thereafter, he switched to film and, at the age of 22, designed his first film structures for silent productions by his brother, the director Pierre Colombier (1896–1958).

With the dawn of the age of talkies, Jacques Colombier also designed the decorations for productions by other directors, including well-known names such as Maurice Tourneur , Abel Gance , Sacha Guitry and Max Neufeld and Robert Siodmak, who had emigrated from Germany . The extremely productive Colombier worked in numerous genres without showing his own, unmistakable style.

Colombier's most significant film buildings came into being after the Second World War : he now preferred to create backdrops for everyday stories of the present, determined by the new objectivity. His set designs for the legal and social dramas of André Cayatte and for several collaborations between the director Gilles Grangier and the actor Jean Gabin are particularly remembered . In the mid-1960s, Colombier withdrew into private life.

Filmography

• 1923: Amour et carburateur
• 1923: Le mariage de Rosine
• 1924: Paris en cinq jours
• 1925: Mon curé chez les riches
• 1927: Les transatlantiques
• 1929: Paris Girls
• 1929: Chiqué
• 1930: upside down into happiness
• 1930: Mon gosse de père
• 1931: Faubourg-Montmarte
• 1931: Partir
• 1931: Two in one car
• 1932: Cocaine (Au nom de la loi)
• 1932: Théodore et Cie.
• 1933: Charlemagne
• 1933: Le voleur
• 1933: Toto
• 1934: Sapho
• 1934: Antonia, romance hongroise
• 1935: Parisian life (La vie parisienne)
• 1936: Beethoven's great love (Un grand amour de Beethoven)
• 1936: The King (Le roi)
• 1936: Les nouveaux riches
• 1937: Ignace
• 1937: Les rois du sport
• 1937: Balthazar
• 1938: Tricoche et Cacolet
• 1938: Le dompteur
• 1938: Le veau gras
• 1939: Circonstances atténuantes
• 1941: Le destin fabuleux de Désirée Clary
• 1941: Le prince charming
• 1942: L'amant de Bornéo
• 1942: Ademaï, bandit d'honneur
• 1943: Countess Chabert (Le colonel Chabert)
• 1943: Coup de tete
• 1945: King of the Nassau (Le roi des resquilleurs)
• 1945: To little luck (Au petit bonheur)
• 1946: Dernier refuge
• 1946: Fantomas (Fantômas)
• 1947: In the shadow of a lie (Route sans issue)
• 1948: The secret of the five red tulips (Cinq tulipes rouges)
• 1948: Jo la Romance
• 1949: Amédée
• 1949: Amour et Cie.
• 1950: jury court ( Justice est faite )
• 1951: Edouard and Caroline ( Edouard et Caroline )
• 1951: meeting point Paris (Ils étaient cinq)
• 1952: We are all murderers ( Nous sommes tous des assassins )
• 1953: Before the Flood ( Avant le déluge )
• 1953: La vierge du Rhin
• 1954: The Sunday Angler (Poisson d'avril)
• 1955: The black file ( Le Dossier noir )
• 1955: Gas-Oil (Gas-Oil)
• 1956: Paradise of Love (Folies-Bergère)
• 1956: An eye for an eye (Oeil pour œil)
• 1957: The king's best man (La tour, prends garde!)
• 1958: The day and the night (Le miroir à deux faces)
• 1958: There are no vacancies in Kittchen (Archimède, le clochard)
• 1960: Desire drives man (Le cercle vicieux)
• 1960: The President (Le président)
• 1961: The Lord with the Millions (Le cave se rebiffe)
• 1962: A gentleman from the best of circles (Le gentleman d'Epsom)
• 1963: Inspector Maigret sees red (Maigret voit rouge)
• 1964: Flegelalter (L'âge ingrat)
• 1965: The Train to Hell (Train d'enfer)

literature

• 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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 124.

Web links

• Jacques Colombier in the Internet Movie Database (English)