Jean-Pierre Lajournade

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1937-04-19

Deathday 1976-11-08 (39 years old)

Place of Birth Pau, France

Jean-Pierre Lajournade

Biography

After studying at IDHEC from 1959 to 1961, he worked for television from 1962 to 1968. He was co-producer and director of the program Lire: he signed fifteen documentaries and four TV movies. In 1967 he filmed his first short film, Assommons les pauvres, with stolen film. He left the ORTF after the strike movement of May 1968. He then devoted himself to the realization of his experimental feature film (Le Joueur de quilles), produced by Jean-Edern Hallier, and three short films produced by Pierre Braunberger. He collaborated in the journal Cinéthique from 1975.

Known For

Director

1970
La tzira

as Script Supervisor

1970
1969
Cinéma-Cinéma

as Director

1968
Werther

as Director

1968
1967
Bruno

as Director

Writer

1971
Le Sang

as Writer

1970
1969
Cinéma-Cinéma

as Writer

1968

Actor

1970
Bartleby

as Bartleby

1970
La Fin des Pyrénées

as L'acrobate céleste