Jean André

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Jean Géraud André (born June 18, 1916 in Paris , France , † February 22, 1980 ibid) was a French film architect and set designer.

Life

For around 25 years, André was one of the most sought-after production designers in classic French entertainment cinema; Numerous French screen stars of the 50s to 70s moved in his decorations. Immediately after his training in 1944, he joined the film industry as an assistant production designer; his first work was Falbalas by Jacques Becker . Until 1955 André worked preferably under the patronage of his teacher Max Douy , but occasionally he was also allowed to work as an outfitter (e.g. French Can Can ) and in 1951 as a costume designer at Die Rote Herberge .

The end of 1955 began Jean André in Jean Renoir's genre picture White daisies his regular work as chief architect. "André quickly made a name for himself as a pleasant clothing manufacturer, especially with erotic boudoir fabrics à la parisienne or wicked-morbid haute-volée melodramas." While in the 50s and 60s he built several films for productions by Roger Vadim and designed with Brigitte Bardot , there were a number of comedies with Louis de Funès in the mid-1960s and those with Pierre Richard in the late 1970s , which were often directed by Gérard Oury .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: The Black Jack (Black Jack)
  • 1953: The haughty ones (Les orgueilleux)
  • 1954: French Can Can (only equipment)
  • 1956: White daisies (Elena et les Hommes)
  • 1956: La Nuit aux Baléares
  • 1956: And women always beckons (Et Dieu… créa la femme)
  • 1957: The Parisian Woman (Une parisienne)
  • 1957: It's always night in their eyes (Les bijoutiers du clair de lune)
  • 1958: At night the veil falls (Toi… le venin)
  • 1958: Sometimes this - sometimes that (Faibles femmes)
  • 1959: Babette goes to war (Babette s'en va-t-en guerre)
  • 1959: Do you want to dance with me? (Voulez-vous danser avec moi?)
  • 1960: ... and dying of lust (Et mourir de plaisir)
  • 1960: The Truth (La vérité)
  • 1960: hours of tenderness (Moderato cantabile)
  • 1961: Midnight Party (Le jeu de la vérité)
  • 1961: Parisian women (Les parisiennes)
  • 1962: The pillow of rest (Le repos du guerrier)
  • 1962: Cruel hands (Les grands chemins)
  • 1962: Vice and virtue (La vice et le vertu) (only equipment)
  • 1963: A castle in Sweden (Château en Suède)
  • 1963: The Seductress (Une ravissante idiote)
  • 1963: Like big cats (Les félins)
  • 1965: The wrong ways of passion (Rapture)
  • 1965: Greetings to the mafia (Je vous salue, mafia!)
  • 1965: The Booty (La curée)
  • 1966: Three break pilots in Paris (La grande vadrouille)
  • 1967: Caroline Chérie (Caroline chérie)
  • 1967: Baldwin, the dry swimmer (Le petit baigneur)
  • 1968: The super brain (Le cerveau)
  • 1969: Pascal (L'arbre de Noël)
  • 1970: The Boss (Comptes à rebors)
  • 1971: The house under the trees (La maison sous les arbres)
  • 1971: Hellé
  • 1972: Don Juan 73 (Don Juan 73 ou et si Don Juan était une femme)
  • 1973: The Ruthless One (Par le sang des autres)
  • 1973: Jet Set (La race des seigneurs)
  • 1974: fear over the city (Peur sur la ville)
  • 1975: Calmos
  • 1976: A clumsy go astray (On aura tout vu)
  • 1976: Une femme fidèle
  • 1977: Violette and François (Violette et François)
  • 1978: The gentle one with the quick legs (La carapate)
  • 1979: The sect (Brigade mondaine: la secte de Marrakech)
  • 1979: The Puppeteer (Le guignolo) (equipment only)
  • 1980: The Umbrella Killer (Le coup du parapluie)

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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 106.

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ 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 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 106.
personal data
SURNAME André, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES André, Jean Géraud (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film architect and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1980
Place of death Paris , France