Robert Clavel

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Robert Joseph Clavel (born October 15, 1912 in Paris , † July 14, 1991 ibid) was a French film architect . In his time he was considered one of the leading production designers in his country.

Life

Clavel received his artistic training at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . In 1940 he joined the film industry and initially assisted his colleagues Léon Barsacq , Max Douy and Alexandre Trauner . In this role, since the liberation of his hometown in 1944, he was involved in important productions such as Robert Bresson's Die Damen vom Bois de Boulogne and Georges Lampin's The Idiot .

In 1948 Clavel rose to the position of chief architect and in "the 50s and 60s [...] became one of the most outstanding representatives of the elegant cinema set" in his country. Clavel often designed the sets for social melodramas and other high-profile entertainment films (such as Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour - Beauty of the Day with Catherine Deneuve ), in which top star Jean Gabin appeared several times . Clavel also furnished various adventure, action, war and crime films with Eddie Constantine , Anthony Quinn , Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo , but also designed the buildings for one or the other comedy with Fernandel and Louis de Funès . The directors with whom Clavel worked again and again included Jean-Paul Le Chanois , Henri Decoin , Gilles Grangier , Denys de La Patellière , Yves Robert , Édouard Molinaro and, in the later years, especially Henri Verneuil (twelve films together) and André Cayatte (ten films together).

Filmography

  • 1948: Venus in the car (Tous les chemins mènent à Rome)
  • 1949: The Parisian Waltz (La valse de Paris)
  • 1949: L'invité du mardi (L'invité du mardi)
  • 1950: Ship in God's hands (Maître après dieu)
  • 1951: Dr. Knock lets ask (Knock)
  • 1951: Passion
  • 1951: L'amour Madame (L'amour Madame)
  • 1952: he and she (Elle et moi)
  • 1952: Haunted by sensations (Les dents longues)
  • 1953: A Woman's Love (L'amour d'une femme)
  • 1953: Virgile
  • 1954: The Count of Monte Christo (Le comte de Monte-Christo)
  • 1954: The refugees (Les évadées)
  • 1954: The calf with five feet / The mutton with five legs (Le mouton à cinq pattes)
  • 1954: Papa, Mama, Katrin and I (Papa, maman, la bonne et moi)
  • 1954: A Whole Life (Les hommes en blanc)
  • 1955: Hunted Innocence (La foire aux femmes)
  • 1955: The road to perdition (Des gens sans importances)
  • 1955: Papa, Mama, my wife and I (Papa, maman, ma femme et moi)
  • 1956: The law of the street (La loi des rues)
  • 1956: The man in the raincoat (L'homme à l'imperméable)
  • 1957: Cavaliers (Charmants garçons)
  • 1957: Girl trap (Donnez-moi ma chance)
  • 1957: Behind blind windows (Méfiez-vous, fillettes)
  • 1957: Night falls (Le rouge est mis)
  • 1958: The gorilla sends his regards (Le gorille vous salue bien)
  • 1958: The citizen as a nobleman (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)
  • 1958: The affairs of Madame M. (Maxime)
  • 1959: Nathalie plays a secret agent (Nathalie agent secrèt)
  • 1959: Signed: Arsène Lupine (Signé Arsène Lupine)
  • 1960: Beyond the Rhine (Le passage du Rhin)
  • 1960: One night affair (L'affaire d'une nuit)
  • 1960: The night has dark shadows (La mort de belle)
  • 1960: Tender, wild Elisabeth (Tendre et violente Élisabeth)
  • 1961: trained in freedom (La bride sur le cou)
  • 1961: Don't shoot, darling, kiss! (Cause toujours mon lapin)
  • 1961: Eddie and the sharp curves (Une gross tête)
  • 1961: A warning is given about salon lions (Les lions sont lâchés)
  • 1961: A monkey in winter (Un singe en hiver)
  • 1962: As silent as the night (Mélodie en sous-sol)
  • 1962: Give Tinder, Eddie! (L'empire de la nuit)
  • 1962: Stealing also needs to be learned (Arsène Lupine contre Arsène Lupine)
  • 1963: 100,000 dollars in the sun (Cent mille dollars au soleil)
  • 1963: Like father like son (Bébert et l'omnibus)
  • 1963: My days with Pierre - my nights with Jacqueline (La vie conjugale)
  • 1964: Les copains
  • 1964: Dunkirk, June 2, 1940 (Week-End à Zuydcoote)
  • 1965: Lord of Brassac Castle (Le tonnerre du dieu)
  • 1965: Rififi in Paris (Du rififi à Paname)
  • 1965: Hungry for Life (Piège pour cendrillon)
  • 1966: The 25th hour (La 25e heure)
  • 1966: Belle de Jour - Beauty of the day (Belle de jour)
  • 1967: San Sebastian (La bataille de San Sebastian)
  • 1968: Baldwin, the night ghost (Le tatoué)
  • 1968: Clérambard
  • 1969: Katmandu (Les chemins de Katmandou)
  • 1970: Dying of Love (Mourir d'aimer)
  • 1971: Un cave
  • 1972: Rendezvous for a happy death (Au rendez-vous de la mort joyeuse)
  • 1972: No smoke without fire (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu)
  • 1974: The verdict (Verdict)
  • 1976: Everyone's Hell (A chacun son enfer)
  • 1977: raison d'état (raison d'état)
  • 1978: Indictment: murder (L'amour en question)

Web links

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. 85.

Individual evidence

  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 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 85.
personal data
SURNAME Clavel, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clavel, Robert Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1991
Place of death Paris