René Wheeler

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René Wheeler (born February 8, 1912 in Paris , France , † December 11, 2000 in Équemauville ) was a French dialog and screenwriter and director .

Live and act

Wheeler had attended the Collège de Pontoise in the 1920s before starting to write in the early 1930s. In 1936 he joined the film industry, first as an actor (“ Moutonnet ”, 1936), then soon as a dialogue writer and screenplay co-author. His first work was for films by the actor Noël-Noël , whom he met on his camera debut.

After the war , Wheeler made a name for himself with manuscripts on thematically very different, commercially extremely successful entertainment films , including the comedy Tatis Schützenfest , the costume and adventure piece Fanfan, the Hussar and the burglar crime classic Rififi . He was also one of several screenwriters on the last Laurel and Hardy film Atoll K. For his script participation in The Nightingale Cage , Wheeler was nominated for an Oscar several years late due to the war .

Between 1949 and 1959, the Parisian tried three times as a director; his stories, some of which were quite ambitious, were only moderately successful. Since the 1960s René Wheeler has concentrated on working for television and wrote the scripts ' L'inspecteur Leclerc ',' Les compagnons de Jéhu ',' L'enfance de Thomas Edison ',' Des oiseaux sur la branche ' and ' Marie Curie ' as well as numerous script adaptations, including 1980 for the multi-part The Secrets of Paris (Les mystères de Paris). In 1968 he wrote several manuscripts for the Hamburg crime series Polizeifunk ruft .

René Wheeler has also written for the theater (the play Il pleut bergère ), as a director he realized his own scripts with the 13-part series L'éventail de Séville . In 1974 he published the novel La maison des bois in collaboration with a co-author .

Wheeler was between 1959 and 1963 as president of the professional organization of screenwriters in France, the Syndicat des scénaristes.

Filmography (cinema only)

as a screenwriter unless otherwise stated

  • 1937: L'innocent
  • 1938: Je chante (only production management)
  • 1939: La damille Duraton (also production manager)
  • 1942: Une étoile au soleil
  • 1944: The nightingale cage (La Cage aux rossignols)
  • 1945: Nuits d'alerte
  • 1946: L'ennemi sans visage
  • 1947: Hafenliebchen (Les amants du pont Saint-Jean)
  • 1947: La vie en rose (Turlot's diary) (La vie en rose)
  • 1947: Tati's shooting festival (Jour de fête)
  • 1949: Premières armes (also director)
  • 1950: L'homme de joie
  • 1951: Atoll K
  • 1951: La plus belle fille du monde
  • 1952: Fanfan, the Hussar (Fanfan la Tulipe)
  • 1952: Plume au vent
  • 1953: A Woman's Love (L'amour d'une femme)
  • 1954: Theodora, Empress of Byzantium (Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio)
  • 1954: Châteaux en Espagne (also director)
  • 1954: Rififi
  • 1955: The rags go to hell (Les salauds vont en enfer)
  • 1956: The Wolves (Pardonnez nos offenses)
  • 1956: The Adventures of Till Ulenspiegel (Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle)
  • 1956: Murder on Montmartre (Réproduction interdite)
  • 1957: Behind blind windows (Méfiez-vous, fillettes)
  • 1958: The night has black eyes (Fekete szem éjszakája)
  • 1959: Dedicated to the devil (L'ambitieuse)
  • 1960: Under the spell of ecstasy (Vers l'extase) (also director)
  • 1961: Crimes of love (Le crime ne paie pas)
  • 1965: Diary of a gynecologist (Le journal d'une femme en blanc)

literature

  • Who's Who in France , 16ième édition, Dictionnaire biographique, Paris 1983–1984, p. 1432
  • Dictionnaire du cinéma , sous la direction de Jean Loup Passek. Édition Larousse, Paris 1992, p. 702

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Who's Who in France , 16ième édition, Dictionnaire biographique, Paris 1983–1984, p. 1432
personal data
SURNAME Wheeler, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, screenwriter, dialogue writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2000
Place of death Équemauville