Maurice Fellous

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Maurice Fellous (born August 20, 1925 in Paris , † April 26, 2015 in Paris) was a French cameraman and one of the most sought-after visual designers of the successful domestic and commercial cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

Live and act

Maurice Fellous had received his training at the IDHEC film school and started filming in 1946 as a camera assistant. In the 1950s he mostly worked as a simple cameraman under the direction of his older brother Roger Fellous and in 1958 became chief cameraman himself.

Since 1961 he has been filming primarily under the direction of Georges Lautner , for whom he photographed most of his comedies and crime films. In addition to Lautner, the specialist in judicial dramas, André Cayatte , used the technical skills of Fellous for his works (No smoke without fire, everyone their hell) . Fellous photographed virtually all the top stars of French entertainment cinema of those years, including Jean Gabin , Lino Ventura , Alain Delon , Louis de Funès , Pierre Richard and again and again Mireille Darc , but also a number of foreign artists such as Hardy Krüger , Rita Hayworth and Sabine Sinjen and Horst Frank .

In the course of the late 1970s, Fellous' work flattened out massively, and he only photographed B-goods that were hardly noticed. Since the 1980s, Maurice Fellous has been mainly active in television, for which he photographed the French-German series joint production The Secrets of Paris . In 2001 he retired.

Maurice Fellous died on April 26, 2015 at the age of 89 in his home in Jouars-Pontchartrain near Paris.

Filmography

  • 1960: The journey in the balloon (Le voyage en ballon)
  • 1961: The seventh jury member (Le septième juré)
  • 1961: The black monocle (Le monocle noir)
  • 1961: Inspector Kent hits the drum (En plein cirage)
  • 1962: In the stranglehold of the black hand (Le scorpion)
  • 1962: Party with 12 pistols (L'œil du monocle)
  • 1963: My uncle, the gangster (Les Tontons flingueurs)
  • 1963: Radishes from below (Des pissenlits par la racine)
  • 1964: Barbouzes' recipes for murder (Les barbouzes)
  • 1965: Galia
  • 1965: The ladies ask (Les bons vivants)
  • 1965: Take it easy, take dynamite (Ne nous fâchons pas)
  • 1966: Fruits amers
  • 1967: A girl like the sea (La grande sauterelle)
  • 1967: Girls on Side Paths (Trois filles vers le soleil)
  • 1968: The Bull (Le Pacha)
  • 1969: The road to Salina (La route de Salina)
  • 1970: Dying of Love (Mourir d'aimer)
  • 1970: The commissioner's great coup (Laisse aller, c'est une valse)
  • 1971: A great bluff (Il était une fois un flic)
  • 1972: No smoke without fire (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu)
  • 1973: The suitcase in the sun (La valise)
  • 1973: The Mafioso (OK Patron)
  • 1974: As cold as the silence (Les seins de glace)
  • 1974: Where do you go to the nearest cemetery? (Pas de problem!)
  • 1975: Old women murder thoroughly (Les grands moyens)
  • 1976: A clumsy head astray (On aura tout vu!)
  • 1976: Everyone's Hell (A chacun son enfer)
  • 1976: The antique hunter (L'homme pressé)
  • 1980: Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai fait au bon dieu pour avoir une femme qui boit dans les cafés avec les hommes!?
  • 1982: Sandy
  • 1983: Blood on the Asphalt (Flics de choc)
  • 1984: Canevas la ville
  • 1987: Faceless (Les prédateurs de la nuit)
  • 1991: Lapsus (short film)
  • 1993: François Truffaut: portraits volés
  • 1994: L'homme de mes rêves (TV movie)
  • 2001: Qui cherche trouve (short film)

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. 643.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Various other circulating dates of birth can be regarded as not applicable. In a lengthy phone call between the film historian Kay Less and Fellous on his 69th birthday, Fellous gave him exactly this date
  2. ↑ Le directeur de la photographie Maurice Fellous, membre d'honneur de l'AFC, nous a quittés. In: afcinema.com. AFC, May 3, 2015, accessed November 25, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Fellous, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 2015
Place of death Jouars-Pontchartrain , Île-de-France , France