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person_profile-Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara Died at age: 98

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Claude Autant-Lara

Date of Birth:

Aug 05, 1901

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Feb 05, 2000

Biography of

Claude Autant-Lara

    Claude Autant-Lara was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP).

    Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best-known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film.

    As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless". In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes.

    On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly. In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "concerns about the American cultural threat", provoking a walkout by the majority of the deputies.

    In an interview granted to the monthly magazine Globe in September 1989, he accused ex-President of the European Parliament and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil of playing "ethnic politics" to try and "infiltrate and dominate", saying that "If they try to speak to me about genocide, I say they missed mother Veil!" He also described Nazi gas chambers as a "string of lies". The resulting scandal led to his resignation as European deputy. Moreover, the members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, of which he was a vice-president for life, voted to prohibit him from taking his seat thenceforth.

    His memoir, The Rage in the Heart, appeared in 1984. He died at Antibes in Alpes-Maritimes in 2000.

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Claude Autant-Lara

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Filmography of

Claude Autant-Lara

Found 36 Movies in total

Gloria

Director

... 1977

Potatoes

Writer

... 1969

... 1968

... 1967

... 1966

... 1965

Black Humor

Director

... 1965

... 1963

Enough Rope

Director

... 1963

... 1961

... 1961

... 1961

... 1960

... 1959

The Gambler

Director

... 1958

... 1958

... 1956

... 1955

... 1954

... 1954

... 1953

... 1952

The Red Inn

Screenplay

... 1951

... 1949

... 1947

... 1946

Douce

Director

... 1943

... 1942

... 1942

... 1939

Fric-Frac

Director

... 1939

The Stream

Director

... 1938

... 1937

Ciboulette

Director

... 1933

Little Devil May Care

Assistant Director

... 1928

The Crazy Ray

Assistant Director

... 1925