René Renoux

René Marcel Renoux (born November 21, 1904 in Brest , † March 16, 2000 in La Verrière ) was a French film architect .

Live and act

Renoux came to film in 1919 as an assistant set designer and initially worked for set designers such as Jean Perrier , Robert-Jules Garnier and Henri Ménessier . In 1928, as chief architect, he was allowed to design film sets on his own for the first time. In the following four decades, Renoux was one of the most sought-after film architects, but he was mostly only used for pleasant, not too demanding entertainment products. His more important works include the sets for Fritz Lang's Molnár adaptation Liliom , Abel Gance's moral painting “ Lucrezia Borgia ” and the literary adaptations “ Topaze ” by Louis Gasnier and “ Le père Goriot ” by Robert Vernay .

Immediately after the Second World War he was able to land two great commissions with the drafts for Jean Delannoy's Gide film “ And there was light ” and the plague doctor drama Monsieur Vincent . He was then closely associated with the productions of Sacha Guitry and Henri Decoin . Delannoy had a large part of his post-war productions designed by René Renoux. Renoux's extensive designs from the 1950s for the lavish history and equipment films “ A Queen's Romance ”, Versailles - Kings and Women , The Hunchback of Notre Dame and “ Napoleon ” and some films with Jean Gabin towards the end are particularly remembered of the same decade.

Filmography

• 1928: La faute de Monique
• 1928: Tu m'appartiens
• 1931: Il est charming
• 1931: Rien que la vérité
• 1932: Topaze
• 1933: Le maîtres des forges
• 1933: Les surprises du sleeping
• 1934: Liliom
• 1934: Lady of the Camellias (La dame aux camélias)
• 1934: Le prince Jean
• 1935: Dora Nelson
• 1935: Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrèce Borgia)
• 1935: Sacré Léonce
• 1936: Ménilmontant
• 1936: Sept hommes… une femme
• 1937: Le fauteuil 47
• 1937: La fille de Madelon
• 1938: Le présidente
• 1938: The Road of Love (Remontons les Champs-Elysées)
• 1938: Le ruisseau
• 1939: Fric-Frac (Fric-Frac )
• 1939: Berlingot et Cie.
• 1941: The first ball (Premier bal)
• 1941: The blue veil (Le voile bleu)
• 1942: My greatest love (La femme que j'ai le plus aimée)
• 1942: The Count of Monte Cristo, two parts (Le comte de Monte Cristo)
• 1943: Vautrin
• 1943: The Song of Songs of Love (Les Anges du péché)
• 1943: Goodbye (Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs)
• 1944: Le père Goriot
• 1944: Knight of the Night (Le bossu)
• 1945: Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1945: Adventure at the royal court (Le capitan)
• 1945: Roger-la-Honte
• 1946: Le visiteur
• 1946: Hyménée
• 1946: And there was light (La symphonie pastorale)
• 1947: The Foreign Legion fortress (Bethsabée)
• 1947: The actor (Le comédien)
• 1948: The Limping Devil (Le diable boiteux)
• 1948: Meeting point Rio (Aux yeux du souvenir)
• 1949: The Man on the Eiffel Tower
• 1949: La cage aux filles
• 1949: Zone frontière
• 1950: God needs people (Dieu a besoin des hommes)
• 1950: Clara de Montargis
• 1951: Hafengasse 5 (Le garçon sauvage)
• 1951: We need a man (Le désir et l'amour)
• 1952: The reward of fear (Le salaire de la peur)
• 1953: In the big girls' dormitory (Dortoir des grandes)
• 1953: Versailles - kings and women
• 1953: Can women be like that? (Secrets d'alcôve)
• 1954: People on the trapeze (obsession)
• 1954: Napoleon (Napoléon)
• 1955: Like lost dogs (Chiens perdus sans collier)
• 1955: A Queen's Romance Novel (Marie-Antoinette)
• 1956: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• 1957: Spies at work (Les espions)
• 1957: Inspector Maigret sets a trap
• 1958: The Bar of Temptation (Guinguette)
• 1958: The big families (Les grandes familles)
• 1959: Maigret knows no mercy (Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre)
• 1959: Wiesenstrasse 10 (Rue des Prairies)
• 1960: A gentleman without change (Le baron de l'écluse)
• 1960: The Princess of Cleve (La princesse de Cleves )
• 1961: Colonel Strogoff (Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff)
• 1963: Le bon roi Dagobert
• 1964: Secret friendships
• 1964: Shoot as long as you can (L'arme à gauche)
• 1965: Just one night, Chéri (Les sultans)
• 1966: Spy between two fronts
• 1966: Action Man (Le soleil des voyous)
• 1967: The she-wolf (La louve solitaire)
• 1969: The man with the torpedo skin (La peau de torpédo)
• 1972: Just a matter of time (Pas folle la guêpe)

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 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 485.

Web links

• René Renoux in the Internet Movie Database (English)