Jean Douchet

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1929-01-19

Deathday 2019-11-22 (90 years old)

Place of Birth Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France

Jean Douchet

Biography

Jean Douchet (January 19, 1929 – November 22, 2019) was a French film director, historian, film critic and teacher who began his career in the early 1950s at Gazette du Cinéma and Cahiers du cinema with members of the future French New Wave. As a journalist Douchet wrote extensively about New Wave filmmakers, as well as such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Kenji Mizoguchi, Vincente Minnelli, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Daniel Pollet. He enabled Serge Daney to begin working for Cahiers. He also acted in small roles for such directors as Godard, Rohmer, François Truffaut, Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette, Jean Pierre Lefebvre and François Ozon. He taught at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques and his students included Ozon, Émilie Deleuze and Xavier Beauvois. He was also involved with the Cinémathèque Française and regularly hosts screenings and events. For the Cinémathèque's 2010 tribute to the then recently deceased Éric Rohmer he made the documentary Claude et Éric, an interview with Claude Chabrol about Rohmer's early days at Cahiers du cinema. On November 22, 2019, the Cinémathèque Française announced that Jean Douchet had died at age 90. Source: Article "Jean Douchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Actor

2016
Elle

as Party Guest

2014
La photo

as Self

2010
2006
Gardens in Autumn

as Le père de l'huissier

1999
As Bodas de Deus

as Bardamu

1998
Sitcom

as Psychotherapist

1996
God's Comedy

as Antoine Doinel

1994
1993
Claude Chabrol, l'entomologiste

as Self - Interviewer

1992
North

as Christian, boss of the pharmacy

1983
A Brutal Game

as Le Professeur Marchal

1982
Employment Offer

as Le directeur

1981
1980
1978
Cinématon

as N°66

1974
1973
The Mother and the Whore

as Café de Flore's Customer (uncredited)

1965
Six in Paris

as A Client (segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)

1965
Place de l'Étoile

as A client (uncredited)

1960
The Good Girls

as customer (uncredited)

1960
Breathless

as A Journalist (uncredited)

1959
The 400 Blows

as Gilberte's Lover (uncredited)

Director

2009
À bicyclette

as Director

1996
La serva amorosa

as Director

1987
1969
Et crac…!

as Director

1965
Six in Paris

as Director

1965

Writer

1969
Et crac…!

as Writer

1965
Six in Paris

as Writer

1965