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- Stunts
Alban Lenoir was born on 16 December 1980 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Taken (2008), Erased (2012) and Hero Corp (2008).- Claude Jade, the daughter of English-teachers, was a student at the "Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique" in Dijon. In 1966, she won a Prize for best actress on stage (Agnès in Molière's "L'école des femmes"). She was also a student on the Academy in Paris (teacher: Jean-Laurent Cochet), appeared in a TV series, and on stage in Paris, and made her first movie, Stolen Kisses (1968) ("Stolen Kisses") directed by François Truffaut. He proposed to marry her in the Spring of 1968, but she later married Bernard Coste (son Pierre was born in 1976), a diplomat with whom she also lived for some years in Russia.
- Director
- Writer
- Actress
Patricia Mazuy was born on 22 January 1960 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. She is a director and writer, known for Saint-Cyr (2000), Thick Skinned (1989) and Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (1993).- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Catherine Wilkening was born on 16 July 1963 in Dijon, France. She is an actress and director, known for Jesus of Montreal (1989), Le crime d'Antoine (1989) and The Days of Desire (2008).- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Jocelyn Quivrin was born on 14 February 1979 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was an actor and writer, known for 99 Francs (2007), Syriana (2005) and Jacquou le croquant (2007). He was married to Alice Taglioni. He died on 15 November 2009 in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Christine Carère was born on 27 July 1930 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Don Juan (1956), The Case of Poisons (1955) and I Deal in Danger (1966). She was married to Philippe Nicaud. She died on 13 December 2008 in Fréjus, Var, France.- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Nathalie Boutefeu was born in 1968 in Dijon, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Comme c'était bien (1999), Apesanteurs (2000) and Irma Vep (1996).- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Eric Kole was born in Dijon, France. He is an actor and director, known for Django (2022), World on Fire (2019) and Manhunt (2019).- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jacques Frantz was born on 4 April 1947 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was an actor, known for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Heartbreaker (2010) and The masked avenger: Lagardère (2003). He died on 17 March 2021 in Paris, France.- Actor
- Production Manager
- Additional Crew
Jean Lara was born on 20 September 1922 in Dijon, France. He was an actor and production manager, known for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Das Boot (1981) and King on Horseback (1958). He died on 25 September 2010 in France.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Eric Valli was born on 21 December 1952 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is a director and writer, known for Himalaya (1999), Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and Chasseur de miel (1989).- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Alain Bernardin was born on 9 January 1916 in Dijon, France. He was a director and writer, known for Leaving Las Vegas (1995), In Fabric (2018) and Les anges gardiens (1995). He died on 15 September 1994 in Paris, France.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Christophe Julien was born on 14 November 1972 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is a composer and actor, known for Joyeux Noel (2005), See You Up There (2017) and Delicious (2021).- Ali Boulabiar was born on 17 July 1989 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. Ali is an actor, known for Back to the Present!, Compatible (2022) and Or noir (2022).
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Jean-Philippe Rameau was born on 25 September 1683 in Dijon, France. He was a composer, known for Casanova (2005), Babylon A.D. (2008) and The Handmaiden (2016). He died on 12 September 1764 in Paris, France.- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Camera and Electrical Department
Sabrina Karine is a young French filmmaker. She arrived in Vancouver in summer 2005 and co-directed her first short, "We're so screwed", in summer 2006 with Jessica Brajoux. "We're so screwed" was nominated for best picture editing at the Leo awards 2006.
Three months later, along with Jessica Brajoux, she wrote and directed two others shorts, "Save my soul" and "Planet 6". While working on these shorts, she started writing Smile of April her first feature film. They auto produced it and wrapped production in July 2007.
In august 2007 they present the script of a new feature film, "Elles Trois" at the Cold Reading Series, a script reading event up in Vancouver, BC. They win the Keith Provost Award.
Back in France, she shot another short, La ligue des amis imaginaires and is now working with producers in Paris on other projects, shorts and features.- François Berland was born on 10 April 1958 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is an actor, known for Double zéro (2004), La reine s'évade (2011) and Une poignée de main historique (2015).
- Writer
- Director
- Visual Effects
Mathieu Sapin was born in 1974 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is a writer and director, known for La loi de la jungle, We Need Your Vote (2018) and Arthur and the Invisibles (2006).- Jean-Claude Baker was born on 18 April 1943 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was an actor and producer, known for 42nd Street: River to River (2009), Jean-Claude Rousseau: Ich bin ein Mann (1969) and Legendary Sin Cities (2005). He died on 15 January 2015 in East Hampton, New York, USA.
- Actress
Louise Colombet was born on 10 September 1886 in Dijon, France. She was an actress. She died on 1 August 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Anne Lauvergeon was born on 2 August 1959 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. She is married to Olivier Fric. They have two children.
- Marie Mansart was born on 5 March 1925 in Dijon, France. She was an actress, known for Au théâtre ce soir (1966), Two English Girls (1971) and Les brigades du Tigre (1974). She died on 12 January 2012 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Additional Crew
- Publicist
Nathalie Iund was born on 23 October 1974 in Dijon, France. Nathalie is a publicist, known for Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002), Eden Log (2007) and Mirages (2010).- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Philippe Théaudière was born on 9 June 1942 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Seven Women for Satan (1976). He died on 29 December 2016 in Paris, France.- He was a pioneer in neuroendocrinology, and shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Rosalyn Sussman Yalow and Andrew Schally.
He graduated from the University of Dijon and started medical school at the University of Lyon. He interrupted his studies to join the French underground's efforts to help refugees get to Switzerland during WWII. He received a medical degree in 1949, and earned a PhD at the University of Montreal.
He joined the faculty at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston, Texas where he taught physiology and searched for neurohormones. In 1970, he moved to the Salk Institute in San Diego, California where he spent the rest of his career. - Writer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Damien Montaron was born on 12 February 1985 in Dijon, France. Damien is a writer and director, known for Almaritsu (2008), Outsiplou (2011) and Jun (2012).- Denis Brogniart was born on 12 June 1967 in Dijon, France. He is an actor, known for Les aventuriers de Koh-Lanta (2001), Domino Day (1998) and Un gars, une fille (au pluriel) (2023).
- Sound Department
Boris Chapelle was born on 3 February 1978 in Dijon, France. He is known for La Vie En Rose (2007), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) and 36th Precinct (2004).- After graduating from school, Gustave Eiffel first studied chemistry at the École des Arts et Manufactures in Paris. The internship period in an ironworks sparked Eiffel's interest in civil engineering. After his studies, he founded a company that specialized in iron structures. Eiffel made a name for himself as a designer and was able to realize numerous projects such as the construction of bridges and domes. For the Paris World Exhibition in 1889, he constructed the Eiffel Tower, which was then named after him and served as the entrance to the French pavilion, based on a design by M. Koechlin. The later symbol of the French capital made it world famous.
To build the tower, Eiffel was able to draw on his extensive experience in bridge construction. The Eiffel Tower was constructed as a steel frame structure with prefabricated elements; the construction time was 16 months. The construction method with its maximum wind permeability allowed a then sensational height of over 300 meters; This made the Eiffel Tower the world's tallest building. The structure was hailed as a groundbreaking advance in construction technology. Beginning in 1890, Eiffel conducted aerodynamic experiments on the tower's platform. Eiffel also constructed the iron skeleton for the Statue of Liberty in New York.
His other monumental buildings include the largest bridge in the world at the time, the Garhabit Viaduct, the dome of the observatory in Nice and the huge locks of the Panama Canal.
Gustave Eiffel died on December 28, 1923 in Paris. - Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Jean-Louis Picavet was born on 26 November 1927 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was a cinematographer, known for I... For Icarus (1979), If I Were a Spy (1967) and Mille milliards de dollars (1982). He died in February 1991 in Paris, France.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Jean Berton was born on 11 March 1906 in Dijon, France. He was an actor, known for Andalousie (1951), El sueño de Andalucía (1951) and Quentin Durward (1971). He died on 20 April 1979 in Draguignan, Var, France.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Art Director
- Writer
Pierre Fanet was born on 9 April 1969 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is an art director and writer, known for Paris, I Love You (2006), Holy Motors (2012) and Black Box (2021).- Jacques Chérèque was born on 9 September 1928 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was married to Marie-Elisabeth Colson. He died on 24 December 2017 in France.
- Pascal Thibaut was born in 1965 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Eric Coiffier was born on 11 October 1958 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is an actor, known for Hors normes (2005), Nudité injustifiée (2007) and Vive le cinéma! (1996).- Actress
Cloe Canivet was born on 16 September 1994 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. She is an actress, known for Ego (2014).- Jacques Sauvageot was born on 16 April 1943 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was an actor, known for Pano Will Not Be Shown (1969) and Mai 68 (1968). He died on 28 October 2017 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
- Jean-Marc Boivin, born in Dijon and died February 17, 1990, in Venezuela near Salto Angel, was a French mountaineer, extreme skier, paraglider, caver and base jumper. He has directed several award-winning films. He holds altitude records in hang gliding and paragliding; he was also the first to descend Everest by paraglider.
This "adventurer of modern times" as he has defined himself is of Dijon origin and made his debut as climbers in Fissin and the difficult limestone cliffs of the Cormot rocks. A true jack-of-all-trades for adventure, Jean-Marc Boivin stands out for the diversity of his talents: climber, mountain guide, glacier climber, paraglider, steep slope skier, this man, known for his kindness and warmth holy energy! His twenty years of adventure know the major stages that punctuate his career. The winter of 1977 was conducive to extreme skiing: he succeeded in his first 8 descents. The following summer, he opened a new route on the Extremely Difficult side of Mont Blanc du Tacul. In 1980, his lightning ascent of the north face of the Matterhorn in solo leaves dreamer: 4h10mns. On September 26, 1986, "the bird-man" flew from the summit of Everest, to descend from the roof of the world in a paraglider for 12 minutes of "happiness" in his own words. But the general public has especially remembered the fantastic spectacle played by Jean-Marc in March 1986 when he succeeded in chaining the four winter north faces of Mont-Blanc in less than twenty hours, combining both his talents as an extreme skier , mountaineer, parachutist and delta wing virtuoso. In hang-gliding, he holds several world records, notably jumping from the summit of Aconcagua and covering some 34 km in a paraglider from the summit of Mont-Blanc.
On February 16, 1990, followed by a television crew filming for the show Ushuaïa, the extreme magazine, Jean-Marc Boivin managed a jump of nearly 1,000 meters in base-jump from the Salto Angel waterfall, the highest waterfall in the world, on the Auyan Tepuy, in Venezuela. The next day, he decides to repeat the feat from, this time, the top of the fall itself, at 979 meters. Or, a woman, Catherine, who had jumped just before him having injured herself after his fall, Jean-Marc Boivin jumped just after to help him. But, at the end of the jump, he collided with a tree. To the team that came to rescue him by helicopter, he told them to go first to rescue the person who had jumped before him. When the team returned to him, he had died of internal bleeding at the age of 38. He is the first Frenchman to die in Base Jump. - Soundtrack
Thoinot Arbeau was born on 17 March 1520 in Dijon, France. Thoinot died on 23 July 1595 in Langres, France.- Nicolas Chinardet was born on 25 July 1974 in Dijon, France. He is an actor, known for 9 Dead Gay Guys (2002) and Dead Boss (2012).
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Jacque-Simonot was born on 3 May 1912 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was a composer, known for Glamador (1958), Shadow of the Guillotine (1956) and Allô allô (1954). He died on 4 March 1961 in Choisel, Yvelines, France.- Marine Debauve was born on 3 September 1988 in Dijon, France.
- Julien Rivier was born on 8 February 1981 in Dijon, France.
- Henri Vincenot was born on 2 January 1912 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was a writer, known for Le pape des escargots (1979), La princesse du rail (1967) and Lectures pour tous (1953). He died on 21 November 1985 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France.
- Mieczyslaw Andryinski was born on 28 June 1927 in Dijon, France. He died on 22 June 2002 in Marcilly-d'Azergues, France.
- Damien Witecka was born on 10 April 1968 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He is an actor, known for Cap Nord (2007), Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011) and Cordier and Son: Judge and Cop (1992).
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Michaël Balerdi was born on 15 August 1983 in Dijon, France. He is an actor, known for Después de la evasión (2002), Xanadu (2011) and Champs d'honneur (2006).- Annaëlle Houdot was born on 27 January 2008 in Dijon, France.
- Marie Prouvensier was born on 9 February 1994 in Dijon, France.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Visual Effects
- Editorial Department
Cyrille Valroff was born on 15 April 1977 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. Cyrille is known for The Goodbye Kiss (2006), Fantômes (2001) and Une femme d'honneur (1996).