René Delacroix

René Joseph Marie Delacroix (born August 27, 1900 in Paris , † June 11, 1976 in Draveil ) was a French film director .

Delacroix initially worked as a distributor and assistant director for the studios Gaumont and Étoile Films . In the early 1930s he went to Abbé Aloysius Vachet's FiatFilm to make his own films. His first feature film, Adieu les copains , was made in 1934. He made half a dozen other films that received little attention; Only the film Notre-Dame de la Mouise , which was made in 1939, was successful . When the Canadian Renaissance Films Distribution was looking for staff in France in 1944 , he, Abbé Vachet and other FiatFilm employees moved there.

In 1947 Delacroix founded the Union catholique du cinéma in France . With Le gros Bill he made one of the first feature films in Québec in 1949 . Three months later he produced Docteur Louise (1951) in France , a film that turned against abortion in the interests of the Catholic Church. His next film, Le rossignol et les cloches (with singer Gérard Barbeau ) was a failure and was panned by criticism.

Gratien Gélinas commissioned him in 1952 to film his play Tit-Coq . The film became one of the greatest hits of that time in Canada. In 1953 he directed the melodrama Cœur de maman . He then returned to France, where he directed the Union catholique du cinéma . His last film, Le tombeur, was made in 1959 .

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SURNAME	Delacroix, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Delacroix, René Joseph Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French film director
DATE OF BIRTH	August 27, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 1976
Place of death	Draveil