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person_profile-Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Pierre Melville Died at age: 55

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jean-Pierre Melville

Date of Birth:

Oct 20, 1917

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Aug 02, 1973

Biography of

Jean-Pierre Melville

    Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).

    Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.

    His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."

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Filmography of

Jean-Pierre Melville

Found 14 Movies in total

... 2004

A Cop

Writer

... 1972

... 1970

... 1969

Le Samouraï

Screenplay

... 1967

... 1966

... 1963

Le Doulos

Screenplay

... 1962

... 1961

Two Men in Manhattan

Moreau ( Actor )

Writer

... 1959

Bob le Flambeur

Narrator (voice) (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1956

... 1953

The Strange Ones

Production Design

... 1950

... 1949