René Clément
Born: 1913-03-18 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Died: 1996-03-17
Known For: Directing
Biography
René Clément (March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya. Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, La Bataille du rail (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits). Clément had international success with several films but his star-studded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning?, written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz was a costly box office failure. Clément continued to make a few films until his retirement in 1975, including an international success with Rider On The Rain that starred Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert. In 1984 the French motion picture industry honored his lifetime contribution to film with a special César Award. René Clément died in 1996 and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement. Description above from the Wikipedia article René Clément, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2022
- Les Grands Créateurs de Cinéma : René Clément as Self (archive footage)
2020
2019
- Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau as Self (archive footage)
1984
1975
- The Baby Sitter ... (Director)
1974
- Spécial cinéma as Self
1972
- And Hope to Die ... (Director)
1971
- The Deadly Trap ... (Director)
1970
- Rider on the Rain ... (Director)
1966
- Is Paris Burning? ... (Director)
1964
- Joy House ... (Director)
- Filmmaking on the Riviera as Self
1963
- The Day and the Hour ... (Director)
1961
- The Joy of Living ... (Director)
1960
- Purple Noon as Clumsy Waiter (uncredited)
1957
- This Angry Age ... (Director)
1956
- Cinépanorama as Self
- Gervaise ... (Director)
1954
- Monsieur Ripois ... (Director)
1952
- Forbidden Games ... (Director)
1950
- The Glass Castle ... (Director)
1949
- The Walls of Malapaga ... (Director)
1947
- The Damned ... (Director)
1946
- Beauty and the Beast ... (First Assistant Director)
- The Battle of the Rails ... (Director)
- Mr. Orchid ... (Director)
1943
- Ceux du rail ... (Director)
1937
- L'Arabie interdite ... (Director)
- Aude, belle inconnue ... (Director)
1936
- Watch Your Left ... (Director)
1935
- Évasion ... (Director)
1931
- Caesar among the Gauls ... (Director)