Jean-Pierre Melville
Born: 1917-10-20 in Paris, France
Died: 1973-08-02
Known For: Directing
Biography
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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2024
- Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs as Self (archive footage)
2023
- Les Rois de la comédie as Self (archive footage)
2021
- Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville ... (Original Film Writer)
2020
- Melville, le dernier samouraï as (archives)
2019
- Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Thlípsi ... (Thanks)
- Lino Ventura, la part intime as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Belmondo, le magnifique as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Melville-Delon: Honor and Night as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Code Name: Melville as Self (archive footage)
2004
- Their First Films ... (Director)
2003
- The Good Thief ... (Original Film Writer)
1999
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai ... (Thanks)
1977
- Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante as Self (archive footage)
1972
- Midi trente as Self (archive footage)
- A Cop ... (Writer)
1971
- Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses as Himself
1970
- Le Cercle Rouge ... (Director)
1969
- Army of Shadows ... (Screenplay)
1967
- Le Samouraï ... (Director)
1966
- Le Deuxième Souffle ... (Writer)
- Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle as Self - Interviewee
1963
- Bluebeard as Clemenceau's Aide
- Magnet of Doom ... (Dialogue)
1962
- Sign of the Lion as Un Consommateur (uncredited)
- Le Combat dans l’île as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
- Le Doulos ... (Director)
1961
- Léon Morin, Priest ... (Director)
1960
- Breathless as Parvulesco the Writer
1959
- Two Men in Manhattan as Moreau
1957
- A Girl in a Pocket as Commissioner
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Bob le Flambeur as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1953
- When You Read This Letter ... (Director)
1950
- Orpheus as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
- The Strange Ones ... (Director)
1949
- The Silence of the Sea ... (Adaptation)
1946
- 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown as Narrator (uncredited)