André Hunebelle

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1896-09-01

Deathday 1985-11-27 (89 years old)

Place of Birth Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Also Known As Андре Юнебель

André Hunebelle

Biography

André Hunebelle (1 September 1896 – 27 November 1985) was a French maître verrier (master glassmaker) and film director. After attending polytechnic school for mathematics, he became a decorator, a designer, and then a master glass maker in the mid-1920s (first recorded exhibition PARIS 1927 included piece "Fruit & Foliage"). His work is known for its clean lines, which are elegant and singularly strong. He exhibited his own glass in a luxurious store located at 2 Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III, at the roundabout of the Champs Èlysées in Paris. Etienne Franckhauser, who also made molds for Lalique and Sabino, made the molds for Hunebelle's glass which was fabricated by the crystal factory in Choisy-le-Roi, France. Hunebelle's store ceased all activity in 1938 prior to World War II. Hunebelle pieces are marked in several ways. The most common is A.HUNEBELLE-FRANCE in molded capitals either within the glass design or on the base. Other pieces are marked simply A.HUNEBELLE. There was also a paper label with A and H superimposed in a stylized manner. Since paper labels are frequently lost, many pieces may appear completely unmarked. In the author's collection there are pieces marked A.HUNEBELLE both with and without the word FRANCE, and a bowl marked MADE IN FRANCE that is identical to one shown in a Hunebelle catalogue. Hunebelle also used a more elaborate maker's mark imprinted on some glass pieces which had the word FRANCE encircled by the words MADE IN FRANCE MODELLE DEPOSE et R COGNEVILLE and with A. HUNEBELLE underneath (reflects mid 1930s partnership with COGNEVILLE). In a short essay, he defined his stylistic aims as a glassmaker, explaining that he wanted to be "an adept of an abstract art where the geometric exactness, the poetry of line, and transparency are combined." He also patented techniques for producing exact mouldings of items. His glasswork displays a calculated modernism in contrast to influences derived from animals, plants and flowers which featured in the work of contemporaries such as René Lalique, Pierre D'Avesn and Marius-Ernest Sabino at the time. Hunebelle chose to focus on geometric forms, using technique and his scientific background to enhance light emission as much as possible. Surface contrasts, volume intersections, polished-non polished effects, geometry, light and poetry of line feature prominently in his work. Hunebelle employed both mold-blown and pressed-molded techniques in producing his pieces. Hunebelle was a publisher of a French newspaper called La Fleché. During World War II, he had no job until a friend Marcel Achard found him work in films for Production Artistique Cinématographique (P.A.C.) where he acted as an art director and later began producing films beginning with Leçon de conduite (1946). He directed his first film Métier de fous in 1948. His next three films were a film series of French film noir featuring Raymond Rouleau as a journalist character mixing with crime. All three had the titles beginning with the letter "M" in honour of author Pierre Benoît whose heroines all began with the letter "A". The films were written by Michel Audiard, a crime novelist. ... Source: Article "André Hunebelle" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Director

1978
Ça fait tilt

as Director

1973
Joseph Balsamo

as Director

1968
1965
Fantomas Unleashed

as Director

1964
Fantomas

as Director

1963
1963
Be Careful Ladies

as Director

1962
1961
Blood on His Sword

as Director

1960
Captain Blood

as Director

1959
1959
Stop the Massacre

as Director

1958
1957
The Twilight Girls

as Director

1957
Paris Casino

as Director

1956
1956
1955
1954
Cadet Rousselle

as Director

1953
1953
1952
Mister Taxi

as Director

1952
Massacre in Lace

as Director

1951
1950
Beware of Blondes

as Director

1949
1949
Mission in Tangier

as Director

1948
Métier de fous

as Director

Producer

1968
1964
Fantomas

as Producer

1958
Les Misérables

as Producer

1955
Série noire

as Producer

1954
Cadet Rousselle

as Producer

1953
1953
1952
Massacre in Lace

as Producer

1952
Mister Taxi

as Producer

1949
Mission in Tangier

as Producer

1948
Métier de fous

as Producer

1947
1946
Driving Lesson

as Producer

1942
Sacred Fire

as Producer

Writer

1964
OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok

as Scenario Writer

1963
1961
1960
Captain Blood

as Writer

1959
1958
1956

Actor

2022
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

as Self (archive footage)

1956