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person_profile-Philippe de Broca

Philippe de Broca Died at age: 71

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Philippe de Broca

Date of Birth:

Mar 15, 1933

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Nov 26, 2004

Biography of

Philippe de Broca

    Philippe de Broca (15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director.

    He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio), The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) and On Guard (Le Bossu). His works include historical, romantic epics such as Chouans! and King of Hearts (Le Roi de cœur), as well as comedies with a charismatic, breezy hero ready to embark upon any adventure which comes his way, so long as it means escaping everyday modern life: Practice Makes Perfect (Le Cavaleur), The Devil by the Tail (Le Diable par la queue), The African (L'Africain). He had links with the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, with whom he made six films, as well as with Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort.

    Philippe de Broca was born on 15 March 1933 in Paris, France. He was the son of a cinema set designer and the grandson of a well-known painter, Philippe de Broca. He studied at the Paris Photography and Cinematography School (école Vaugirard), graduating in 1953. He carried out his military service with the service cinématographique des armées (army film service) in Germany and then in Algeria, directing or acting as head cameraman on short films. Greatly affected by the war he witnessed, he vowed to show life in its best light in his future films “because laughter is the best defence against upsets in life”. After his discharge from the military, he set off on a journey taking in the length of Africa in Berliet trucks before returning to Paris.

    He began working as an intern with Henri Decoin, before finding assistant positions with Claude Chabrol: Bitter Reunion (Le Beau Serge), The Cousins (Les Cousins), Web of Passion (À Double Tour), François Truffaut: The 400 Blows (Les 400 Coups) and Pierre Schoendoerffer: Ramuntcho. In 1959, Claude Chabrol produced de Broca's first film for him, The Love Game (Les jeux de l’amour) with Jean-Pierre Cassel. De Broca went on to work with Cassel again in The Joker (Le Farceur, 1960), Five Day Lover (L’Amant de cinq jours, 1961), and Male Companion (Un Monsieur de Compagnie, 1964).

    De Broca's first commercial success came with Swords of Blood (Cartouche), filmed in 1962. This film also saw two more names become associated with de Broca: the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and the producer Alexandre Mnouchkine. International acclaim came with That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio) in 1964, Up to His Ears (Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine) in 1965, The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) in 1973 and Incorrigible (L'Incorrigible) in 1975.

    In 1966, he co-wrote, directed and produced King of Hearts (Le Roi de Cœur). This parody of the Great War, which some cinema-lovers consider his masterpiece, was a commercial and personal failure, to de Broca's dismay. Yet it eventually achieved genuine cult-film status during the mid 1970s when it was presented in repertory movie theaters as well as non-theatrical college and university film series across the United States, eventually running for five years at the now defunct film house, the Central Square Cinemas in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

    Source: Article "Philippe de Broca" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Filmography of

Philippe de Broca

Found 16 Movies in total

Le Terminus des prétentieux

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

The Foreign Eye

Self ( Actor )

... 2006

... 1996

Droit de Réponse

Self ( Actor )

... 1981

The Magnificent One

Un Plombier (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1973

Le Cinema de Papa

Jean Timent ( Actor )

... 1971

The Devil by the Tail

Un passant suédois ( Actor )

Director

... 1969

King of Hearts

Adolf Hitler ( Actor )

Director

... 1966

Les pieds nickelés

le chauffeur de taxi ( Actor )

... 1964

People in Luck

Le passant qui reçoit l'affiche (« Une nuit avec la vedette ») ( Actor )

Writer

... 1963

... 1962

Cartouche

L'homme qui crie 'les aristocrates à la lanterne' ( Actor )

Writer

... 1962

The Love Game

L'homme au cabaret Le Bateau Mouche ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 1960

Breathless

A Journalist (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1960

The 400 Blows

Man in Funfair ( Actor )

Assistant Director

... 1959

Handsome Serge

Jacques Rivette de la Chasuble ( Actor )

... 1958