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Lou de Laâge was born on 27 April 1990 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for The Innocents (2016), Jappeloup (2013) and The Mad Women's Ball (2021).- Director
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Benjamin Millepied is a world-renowned choreographer, dancer, and rising director. In 2010, Millepied choreographed and starred in the Oscar winning feature Black Swan (2010). Since then, he has directed a number of short films, commercials, and music videos in collaboration with artists including Philip Glass, Mark Bradford, IO Echo, Lil Buck, and Zeds Dead. Most recently, Millepied directed a short film for luxury jewelry brand Van Cleef and Arpels based on his original choreography entitled Reflections. In 2012, Millepied founded The Amoveo Company, a multi-media production company and art collective based in Los Angeles.- Actor
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Olivier Marchal started taking acting lessons when he still was a police officer. He began his career in television, appearing in supporting parts or writing scripts for detective TV series. In 1989 when Yves Rénier resurrected his TV series Commissaire Moulin (1976) he became his partner as scriptwriter, series supervisor and sometimes actor. In 2000 he starred as Commandant Pierre Rivière in his own TV series Police district (2000), written by novelist Hugues Pagan, himself also a former police officer.- Actress
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Danielle Darrieux was born in 1917 in Bordeaux, France, to Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Germain Jean Darrieux, a physician. She was raised in Paris. She was only fourteen when she auditioned for a secondary role in Le bal (1931): she got the part, and the producer offered her a five-year contract. She had her first romantic lead in La crise est finie (1934) and scored an international hit with the historical drama Mayerling (1936) in which she played Marie Vetsera opposite Charles Boyer. In 1938, she went to Hollywood to appear in the fine comedy The Rage of Paris (1938) but quickly returned to Paris.
Darrieux remained in France during the Occupation and was one of the leading actresses during this period, starring in major hits such as Premier Rendez-Vous (1941). In 1945, she appeared both on stage (in "Tristan et Isolde") and on screen (in Au petit bonheur (1946)). In the next three decades, she found several important roles, in films like La Ronde (1950), The Earrings of Madame De... (1953) -- in which she gave her best performance, as a society lady torn between her husband and her lover -- and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).
In 1970, she replaced Katharine Hepburn on Broadway in "Coco." Afterwards, she made occasional screen and stage appearances. But she made a triumphant comeback in 2002, playing Catherine Deneuve's mother in the international hit 8 Women (2002).
She died on October 17, 2017 in Bois-le-Roi, Eure, France. She was 100.- Actress
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As an actress she came to prominence in the 60s nouvelle vague. As a chanteuse she was noted for her beautifully emotional, melancholy voice and went on to sell more than 35 million albums. Marie Laforet was born Maïtena Doumenach in the seaside resort of Soulac-sur-Mer in the Gironde region of Acquitane. After being raped by a neighbour at the age of three, she was unable to speak for a long time. Marie had also developed a natural shyness which she took great pains to overcome as a youngster. She was enrolled at the prestigious Lycée Jean-de-La-Fontaine when the family moved to Paris. Eventually she undertook drama classes with actor/director Raymond Rouleau. At the age of twenty, she won a radio talent contest. Soon thereafter -- thrust into almost instant stardom -- Marie was cast as the female lead in her first film, the René Clément-directed thriller Purple Noon (1960) (based on the Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley), starring Alain Delon and Maurice Ronet. In her next high profile picture she was The Girl with the Golden Eyes (1961), permanently taking on the tag and remaining strongly identified with this role for years to come. The director, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco became the first of her five husbands. All those marriages ultimately ended in divorce.
The world of music being still more competitive than that of acting has often prompted hopeful musicians to start out as actors. Marie Laforet was no exception. Her career as a vocalist only took off after she sang the jaunty title song in Saint-Tropez Blues (1961), a musical comedy in which she also starred. However, after that, she went from strength to strength with renditions of romantic ballads and pop hits like Apres Toi Qui Sait, Un amour qui s'est eteint, Les vendanges de l'amour, Viens Viens and the haunting Tu Fait Semblant. She also recorded successful cover versions of Bob Dylan's t Blowin' in the Wind," Simon & Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" and The Rolling Stones number "Paint It Black," (as "Marie Douceur, Marie Colère"). In the 70s, Laforet revamped her style and her repertoire and widened her appeal by branching out into American and Eastern European folk music.
Her screen career meanwhile continued through the 60s with unabated success in generally above-average productions, usually paired with seasoned box-office stars: in Dark Journey (1961) (playing Angele, a prostitute, this story of a love triangle partnered her with Louis Jourdan and the magnificent Lilli Palmer); Rat Trap (1963) (an adventure, filmed in Paraguay with Charles Aznavour); the Franco-Italian rom-com Male Hunt (1964) (one of several films in which she appeared with Jean-Paul Belmondo); the slick caper comedy How Not to Rob a Department Store (1965) (with Jean-Claude Brialy) and (as a resourceful heroine outwitting international spies) in Claude Chabrol's sub-Hitchcockian action thriller Blue Panther (1965). Laforet lent a touch of continental sophistication to Jack of Diamonds (1967), an international co-production about a team of cat burglars filmed in Germany and released by MGM, but the picture proved somewhat less than satisfactory. Television became a viable medium for character roles later in her career.
Despite enduring popular acclaim and sold-out concerts, Laforet was less than content with her career, famously declaring "I'm ashamed of doing what I do: interpreting pop songs in a superficial way." By 1978, she had ceased going on tour (though she did make a final comeback in 2005), resettled in Geneva, became a Swiss citizen and opened an art gallery. She spent the succeeding decades tending to art, writing songs as well as a book of biographical reminiscences. In the late 90s, she returned to the stage at the Théâtre Antoine and at the Opéra Comique in Paris with a tour-de-force portrayal of opera diva Maria Callas in Terrence McNallys play "Master Class". Laforet finally retired from screen acting in 2010 and died in Genolier, Switzerland, on November 2 2019 at the age of 80.- Actress
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Lili Damita was a French-American actress, best remembered today for whom she married than for the movies in which she appeared. When the sound revolution arrived in Hollywood, all of the studio's scrambled to find actors who could speak lines and record well. It was at this time Lili burst onto the scene. While her accent would always be quite noticeable, the novelty of sound overcame the quality of lines uttered. In the MGM movie The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929), she played against Ernest Torrence as his love interest. In 1931, she was cast with Gary Cooper in the early western Fighting Caravans (1931). After that, her career was almost over as she continued to make only a few other movies over the next few years. In 1935, she married a hell raiser by the name of Errol Flynn. This rocky tempestuous union lasted until 1942.- Editor
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Jean Eustache was born on 30 November 1938 in Pessac, Gironde, France. He was an editor and director, known for The Mother and the Whore (1973), My Little Loves (1974) and Les photos d'Alix (1982). He died on 3 November 1981 in Paris, France.- Director
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René Clément was one of the leading French directors of the post-World War II era. He directed what are regarded as some of the greatest films of the time, such as The Battle of the Rails (1946), Forbidden Games (1952) and The Day and the Hour (1963). He was later almost forgotten as a director. He was back in public attention briefly when his epic Is Paris Burning? (1966) (with an all-star cast of famous actors) was released in 1966, but it was much criticized.
During the 1960s and 1970s Clement directed a number of unnoticed international productions, always with his usual brio and technical virtuosity. Indeed, what characterizes most of his films is how, even to serve sometimes very unexceptional scripts, the directing is always breathtakingly original, inventive, featuring technical virtuosity and the use of special effects. When a remarkable script is associated with these qualities, a film such as Forbidden Games (1952) is the result: the masterpiece of a lifetime. I think we can say that René Clément was one of the most unlucky talented filmmakers who existed, but unfortunate career choices damaged his legacy.
He died in March 1996.- Cécile Bois was born on 26 December 1971 in Talence, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for Candice Renoir (2013), Germinal (1993) and Gloria (2021).
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Cedric Nicolas-Troyan was born on 9 March 1969 in Talence, Gironde, France. He is a director, known for Kate (2021), The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). He has been married to Sue Troyan since 25 July 2002. They have one child.- Actress
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Barbara Schulz was born on 15 March 1972 in Talence, Gironde, France. She is an actress and director, known for French Kiss (1995), The Longest Week (2014) and La dilettante (1999).- Producer
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac (Gironde) in France. He entered the naval academy in 1930, was graduated and became a gunnery officer. Then, while he was training to be a pilot, a serious car accident ended his aviation career. In order to rehabilitate his body, he was told to swim regularly in the Mediterranean. In 1936, near the port of Toulon, he went swimming underwater with goggles for the first time and his life was changed forever. Seeking a way to explore underwater longer than a single lung-full of air would allow, he partnered with an engineer Emile Gagnan to co-invent the Aqualung, what became known as Scuba (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) in 1943, and the world was changed forever. Now, for the first time, people could explore the ocean freely. After World War II, Cousteau, along with naval officer Philippe Tailliez and diver Frédéric Dumas, became known as the " mousquemers " (musketeers of the sea) as they carried out diving experiments. In 1950, he converted a former wooden hulled minesweeper called Calypso into an oceanographic vessel, equipped with instruments for diving and scientific research. In 1953 Jacques released a book called The Silent World. Three years later in 1956, Jacques along with his co-director, a young Louis Malle, turned the book into a film also called The Silent World. It was a global phenomenon winning a Palm D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956 and an Academy Award that same year as well. In 1964 he won his second Academy Award with the film World Without Sun. In 1968, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau was launched on ABC in the United States and became a worldwide sensation. Through more than 115 television films and 50 books, Captain Cousteau opened up the wonder and mystery of the oceans to millions of households. During this time he was joined by his youngest son Philippe Cousteau Sr. who went on to direct, produce and film 26 episodes of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau as well as his own 6-part series Oasis in Space. Throughout his career, Jacques received numerous honors and awards for his work. On April 19, 1961, President John F. Kennedy presented the National Geographic Society's Gold Medal to Captain Jacques Cousteau. He was also recognized as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor for his service in the French Résistance during WWII. He was the Director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco for thirty years as well as a member of the US Academy of Sciences. In 1977, the United Nations awarded him the International Environmental Prize. He received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985. Then, in 1988, he was inscribed in the UN Environmental Programme's Global 500 Roll of Honor of Environmental Protection and received the National Geographic Society's Centennial Award. Then in 1989 he was elected to the Académie Française. In 1990 he launched a worldwide petition campaign to save Antarctica from mineral exploitation. His effort was successful when nations from around the world agreed to the protection of Antarctica from all exploitation. Captain Cousteau died on June 25, 1997, at the age of 87- Anh Duong was born in France to a Spanish mother and a Vietnamese father. She studied Classical dance and started as a top model. In 1988, she moved to New York and began a career as an artist and an actress. She was cast in the Mambo Kings as her first role in a featured film. Her career also includes roles in films such as I Shot Andy Warhol, and High Art by Lisa Cholodenko which was presented in Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals. Duong also acted in two films by French director Laetitia Masson, For Sale and Love Me which was screened in the Berlin Film Festival. After a break of ten years from acting while she was focusing on her art career. Duong started again with her role of Nasrin in Appropriate Behavior by Desiree Akhavan in the Sundance competition - GHB of French director Laetitia Masson and Abel Ferrara Welcome to New York. And The only living boy in New York with Pierce Brosnan Cynthia Nixon Debi Mazar and Wallace Shawn.
As for her Art career in 1991 Sperone Westwater Gallery featured Duong's first painting exhibition in New York. Her earliest self-portrait was included in a 1997 show at the PMMK Museum of Modern Art in Ostend, Belgium. Two years later (1999), the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris presented her first solo exhibition of self-portraits with more than 65 works on display Duong has since become a recognized painter in New York City. Her latest solo exhibitions in New York have been at the Sonnabend gallery and London at the Robilant&Voena gallery. Duong has worked on portraits such as Bruno Bischofberger, Simon de Pury, Angelica Houston, Susan Sarandon. Duong's latest portrait has been a sculpture standing nine feet tall in stainless steel of Diane von Furstenberg for the figurehead of Barry Diller's yacht. She has sculpted the 50 stars that is part of the entrance mural for the the Statue of Liberty new museum opened in 2018. She is currently working on the 35 sculptures of the birds for the entrance wall of the new headquarters of the Hillary Clinton foundation Vital Voices in Washington DC opening in May 2022. A retrospective of 20 of her paintings has been exhibited at the Gmurzynska gallery in Zurich summer 2021. She is having her first show in Los Angeles opening April 2022 at the Spring Place Beverly Hills. The National Portrait gallery in Washington DC has acquired a portrait she made of Diane von Furstenberg for their permanent collection. She lately starred in the Kate Spade- H&M -Bergdorf Goodman Miu Miu- Pomellato and Thom Browne campaigns to name a few. A book has been published of her work by Assouline (Self)-Portraits She received the Veuve Clicquot Tribute to Inspiring Women Award Duong lives currently between New York / Paris. She is fluent in french, english and spanish. - Director
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Édouard Molinaro was born on 13 May 1928 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Birdcage (1996), La Cage aux Folles (1978) and A Mistress for the Summer (1960). He was married to Catherine Molinaro, Marie-Hélène Breillat and Pierrette Carvallo. He died on 7 December 2013 in Paris, France.- Actor
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Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy, Max Linder is in many ways as important a figure as Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd, not least because he predated (and influenced) them all by several years and was largely responsible for the creation of the classic style of silent slapstick comedy.
Linder started out as an actor in the French theatre, but after making his screen debut in 1905 he quickly became an enormously famous and successful film comedian on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to his character "Max," a top-hatted dandy. By 1912 he was the highest-paid film star in the world, with an unprecedented salary of one million francs. He began to direct films in 1911 and showed equal facility behind the camera, but his career suffered an almost terminal blow when he was drafted into the French army to fight in World War I. He was gassed, and the illness that resulted would blight his career. Although offered a contract in America, recurring ill health meant that his US films had little of the sparkle of his early French work, and a brief attempt to revive his career by making films for the recently-formed United Artists (one of whose founders, of course, was Chaplin) in the early 1920s came to little, although these later films are now regarded as classics. He returned to France and killed himself in a suicide pact with his wife in 1925.- Writer
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Léa Mysius was born in Bordeaux on 4 April 1989. She spent her first thirteen years in the Medoc region (where she filmed most of her first feature "Ava", whose eponymous character is a... thirteen-year-old girl!) Following her parents, she lived on the Reunion island until she graduated from high school. She then came back to Metropolitan France. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris before joining the Femis School. Still learning the ropes of her trade at the film school, she was already noticed for her talent both as a writer and director. Her first short Cadavre exquis (2013). told an unusual and unsettling story, that of a boy fascinated by the corpse of a beautiful dead girl. It earned Léa Mysius the SACD Award at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. Her next two shorts, Thunderbirds (2014) and L'île jaune (2016) (the last one co-directed by cinematographer Paul Guilhaume), were in turn shown in many festivals and also won awards. Léa Mynius was only 26 when in the Summer of 2016 she started filming Ava (2017), her first feature. As offbeat as her shorts, 'Ava' has another young teenager as its central figure, and one who loses sight into the bargain. And the second character is a young gypsy rejected by his family. Not the standard French film heroes indeed. Moreover, seeing 'Ava', one realizes that Léa Mysius is already a genuine author (adolescent malaise, the sea, the water, dogs, among others, are characteristic elements present in two or several of her four films). A fruitful career is undoubtedly in store for Léa Mynius, one of the youngest and - not one of the least personal - French directors- Hélène Surgère was born on 20 October 1928 in Caudéran, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), The Divorce (2003) and Marcel Proust's Time Regained (1999). She died on 27 March 2011 in Paris, France.
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Marie-Hélène Breillat was born on 2 June 1947 in Talence, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for Last Tango in Paris (1972), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1977) and Claudine (1978). She was previously married to Édouard Molinaro.- Georges Descrières was born on 15 April 1930 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Would-Be Gentleman (1958), The Three Musketeers: Part I - The Queen's Diamonds (1961) and Ce diable d'homme (1978). He was married to Nicolette Felbert and Geneviève Brunet. He died on 19 October 2013 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Jean-Michel Dubreuil was born in Talence, Gironde, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France. He is an actor, known for Cornelius, the Howling Miller (2017), Sol y sombra and The House of Gaunt (2021).
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Evelyne Dandry is singer André Dassary's daughter. She made her debut on stage at the Theatre de la Huchette in Paris when she was only sixteen: she had only three lines to utter there in a play by Jean Tardieu. But it was the first of a series comprising "Les Enfants d'Edouard", Isabelle et le Pélican", Arthur Miller's "Vu du Pont" produced in 1958 by Peter Brook at Theâtre Antoine, Pol Quentin's "Football" (1959), "Le Voyage de Georges Shéhade" (a Jean-Louis Barrault production of 1960), Valentino Bompani's "Teresa Angelica" (1961) and others. She became a regular on French television, a little less so on the big screen. She was nevertheless granted a double best actress award for her performance in "Sitcom" (François Ozon, 1997).- Actor
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Jacques Dufilho was born on 19 February 1914 in Bègles, Gironde, France. He was an actor and director, known for Le Crabe-Tambour (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and A Bad Son (1980). He died on 28 August 2005 in Lectoure, Gers, France.- Madame Bartet was born on 9 October 1876 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for The Return of Ulysses (1909), Vendetta (1914) and Sadounah (1915). She died on 26 October 1949 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Pierre Cassignard was born on 19 December 1965 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Empreintes criminelles (2010), Le sourire du clown (1999) and Russian Dolls (2005). He died on 20 December 2021 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
- Geneviève Fontanel was born on 27 June 1936 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for The Man Who Loved Women (1977), L'affaire Dominici (1973) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). She was married to Jacques Destoop. She died on 17 March 2018 in Draveil, Essonne, France.
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Marie Bell was born on 23 December 1900 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for Life Dances On (1937), Madame Récamier (1928) and La garçonne (1936). She was married to Jean Chevrier. She died on 14 August 1985 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Writer
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José Bové was born on 11 June 1953 in Talence, Gironde, France. He is a writer and actor, known for Une affaire de principe (2024), Mortus Corporatus (2014) and Pas assez de volume! - Notes sur l'OMC (2004).- Actress
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Yvonne Arnaud was born on 20 December 1892 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933), Tons of Money (1930) and Lady in Danger (1934). She was married to Hugh McLellan. She died on 20 September 1958 in London, England, UK.- Pierre Olaf was born on July 14, 1928 in Caudéran, Bordeaux, Gironde, France as Pierre-Olaf Trivier. He was an actor, known for Camelot (1967), The Art of Love (1965) and Christmas Carol (1984). He died on September 13, 1995 in Paris, France. He is also known for creating the role of Jacquot in Carnival on Broadway (1961-1963) He was nominated for a Tony in 1963. He was the younger brother of Robert Trivier, French Painter (1919-1987).
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Claire Etcherelli was born on 11 January 1931 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Élise ou la vraie vie (1970), La dérobade (1973) and Benny Lévy, la révolution impossible (2008). She died on 5 March 2023 in Paris, France.- Writer
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Jean Anouilh was born on 23 June 1910 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a writer and director, known for Deux sous de violettes (1951), Le Voyageur sans bagage (1944) and Anna Karenina (1948). He was married to Nicole Lançon and Monelle Valentin. He died on 3 October 1987 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.- Mireille Perrey was born on 3 February 1904 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Pas sur la bouche (1931) and Jim la houlette (1935). She died on 8 May 1991 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France.
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Romain Barreau was born on 5 June 1998 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He is a director and actor, known for Désarticulé (2020), Marisa (2017) and Soif (2020).- Producer
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An experienced feature film Producer, Emmanuel Itier directed several pictures before completing in 2012 the Peace documentary 'The Invocation' narrated by Sharon Stone and staring Desmond Tutu, HH The Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra as well as many worldwide peace activists. In 2013 Mr. Itier executive-produced a Drama filmed in Hong Kong: 'Red Passage' which won many Awards in the Festival circuit.
Emmanuel Itier has also been a successful Music and Film journalist for both Rock Magazines, French TV networks and various websites for the last twenty five years. Finally Itier has been a buyer for many French and American Film distribution companies for the last twenty years. He was on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Film Festival for a decade and he writes poetry. He is also very involved with charities and the political world. Mr. Itier seats on the board of Directors of 'Darfur Women Action Group' in an attempt to bring Peace to Darfur. He is also the current President of the Rotary E-Club of World Peace ( RotaryEclubofWorldPeace.org ) and he is a member of the U.N Association.
Mr. Itier grew up in France and he moved in the USA thirty years ago. He resides in Santa Barbara, California with his wife and three sons. Finally Emmanuel Itier released in 2014 another inspiring documentary Celebrating Women around the planet: 'FEMME-Women healing the World.' This Documentary earned over 20 Awards around the World.
Late 2017 Mr. Itier completed his third feature Documentary: 'Shamanic Trekker', about shamanism in Peru. Mr. Itier is now about to release two more documentaries in order to keep "Making Peace, One movie at a time." These films are part of a series called 'The Oneness Collection: Documentaries for a conscious Humanity.' The first one is called 'The Cure: Healing The Mind, Healing The Body, Healing the Planet' to be distributed mid 2018 and by the end of this year the political loaded Doc: 'We The People: A Re-Evolution of Economics and Politics' is sure to shake the system.
On the non-fiction side Mr. Itier is planning on directing a biopic about the poet Charles Bukowski.- Producer
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Born in 1954 into a wealthy family, Humbert Balsan started his career as a movie actor, his main claim to fame in this field being his performance as Gawain in Robert Bresson's Lancelot of the Lake (1974). But the young man soon gave up acting for production, a task in which he found an avid interest. From 1979 to his premature death in 2005, he imposed himself as a demanding producer, constantly privileging quality over profit. He helped several women directors to put their projects together; in this regard, Sandrine Veysset, Claire Denis,Brigitte Roüan owe him much. Likewise, great foreign filmmakers, particularly Arab, benefited from the support of Ognon Pictures, Balsan's film company, among whom Youssef Chahine, Elia Suleiman, Yousry Nasrallah, but also James Ivory and Lars von Trier. The day of February 2005 when Humbert Balsan took his own life at the age of fifty was day of mourning for French auteur cinema.- Actor
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Jean-Pierre Bouyxou was born on 16 January 1946 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He is an actor and writer. He was previously married to Maud Sinet and Janine Delannoy.- Mona Heftre was born in 1953 in Condat, Gironde, France. She is an actress, known for Emmenez-moi au théâtre (1982).
- Pierre Larquey was born on 10 July 1884 in Cénac, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Diabolique (1955), Tarass Boulba (1936) and Sylvie et le fantôme (1946). He died on 17 April 1962 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France.
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Jean-Louis Daniel was born in 1954 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He is a director and writer, known for Gunblast Vodka (2000), Neon Angel and Shanghai Belle (2011). He was previously married to Anja Kruse.- Writer
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René Pujol was born on 18 August 1887 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. René was a writer and director, known for The City of Lost Children (1995), Ça... c'est du sport (1938) and Everyone Has Their Chance (1930). René was married to Blanche Picotin. René died on 20 January 1942 in Paris, France.- Paul Dullac was born on 9 March 1882 in Bègles, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Marius (1931), The Baker's Wife (1938) and César (1936). He was married to Odette Dullac. He died on 17 August 1941 in Vichy, Allier, France.
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Séverin-Mars was born on 21 February 1873 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was an actor and director, known for The Wheel (1923), Macbeth (1915) and La dixième symphonie (1918). He died on 17 July 1921 in Courgent, Yvelines, France.- Writer
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Willy Rozier (b.1903) .although a writer, was not very good at conceiving movies;"Les Anges Noirs " (1937) highlighted his problem: though based on a François Mauriac's novel ,it was impossible to take an interest in these characters ,the director being incapable of giving a little life to them."Monsieur Chasse" (1946) was pure filmed stage production."56 Rue Pigalle"praised act keeping in with moral standards , so did "Le Bagnard" which told the story of a doctor who gambled his money away , was sent to a penal colony and finally redeemed his soul ."L'Epave"(1949) was certainly the most satisfying effort of his career ."Les Amants Maudits " was a poor man's Bonnie and Clyde ,but "Manina ,La Fille Sans Voile" revealed,long before Vadim ,Brigitte Bardot's sensuality and sex appeal.The three Callaghan movies (1954,1955, 1960) were mediocre stuff.Rozier would cast his Callaghan ,Tony Wright, in another Cheyney adaptation "Et Par Ici La Sortie ",a heavy-handed slapstick,the kind of flick which makes me like the coming of the Nouvelle Vague."Prisonniers De La Brousse ",in which five persons who survived a forced landing in African bush walked through a hostile nature,was a return to the two-bit exoticism of "Le Bagnard" .His last efforts "Dany La Ravageuse " and "Dora La Frénésie Du Plaisir " (sic) were pornographic movies.He died in 1983.- Director
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Danièle Roy was born on 11 November 1921 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She is a director and actress, known for Les amants maudits (1952), The Woman with Three Husbands (1993) and A Child's Dream (1998).- Jean-Yves Chatelais was born on 7 March 1953 in Caudéran, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Coco Before Chanel (2009), The Squad (2000) and Les Montana (2004). He died on 31 July 2018 in Bordeaux, France.
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Pierre Gaspard-Huit was born on 29 November 1917 in Libourne, Gironde, France. He was a writer and director, known for Scorching Sands (1963), Le capitaine Fracasse (1961) and The Leatherstocking Tales (1969). He was married to Claudine Auger. He died on 1 May 2017 in Paris, France.- Yvonne Vallée was born on 21 February 1899 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for Le petit café (1931) and Hello New York! (1928). She was married to Maurice Chevalier. She died on 15 June 1996 in Vallauris, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Philippe Vallois was born on 27 August 1948 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He is a director and writer, known for Nous étions un seul homme (1979), Spirit Are You There? (2008) and Lamento (1977).- Gabrielle Fontan was born on 16 April 1873 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for Sylvie et le fantôme (1946), Angel and Sinner (1945) and Strangers in the House (1942). She died on 8 September 1959 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne, France.
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Michel Mardore was a writer, film critic in Positif, les Cahiers du cinéma, Les Lettres françaises, Lui, Pariscope, Cinéma and Le Nouvel Observateur. He was one of the most important film critics in France and in 1962 he the first one to interview Henri Langlois, the creator of the Cinémathèque française. For many years he contributed to the French Radio (Le Masque et la plume) for film criticism. His first film, Le sauveur, is an original story about the good and the bad during the world war two in south of France.