Jean-Pierre Melville

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1917-10-20

Deathday 1973-08-02 (55 years old)

Place of Birth Paris, France

Also Known As Jean-Pierre Grumbach, 让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔, 장피에르 멜빌, 장-피에르 멜빌, 장 피에르 멜빌

Jean-Pierre Melville

Biography

Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969). Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

2004
Their First Films

as Director

1972
A Cop

as Director

1970
Le Cercle Rouge

as Director

1969
Army of Shadows

as Director

1967
Le Samouraï

as Director

1966
1963
Magnet of Doom

as Director

1962
Le Doulos

as Director

1961
1959
1956
Bob le Flambeur

as Director

1950
The Strange Ones

as Director

1949

Actor

2023
Les rois de la comédie

as Self (archive footage)

2019
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Lino Ventura, la part intime

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Belmondo, le magnifique

as Self (archive footage)

2011
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night

as Self (archive footage)

1972
Midi trente

as Self (archive footage)

1963
Bluebeard

as Clemenceau's Aide

1962
Le Combat dans l’île

as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)

1962
Sign of the Lion

as Un Consommateur (uncredited)

1960
Breathless

as Parvulesco the Writer

1959
1957
A Girl in a Pocket

as Le commissaire

1956
Bob le Flambeur

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1956
1950
Orpheus

as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

1946
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

as Narrator (uncredited)

Writer

2003
The Good Thief

as Screenplay

1972
A Cop

as Writer

1970
Le Cercle Rouge

as Writer

1969
Army of Shadows

as Screenplay

1967
Le Samouraï

as Screenplay

1966
1963
Magnet of Doom

as Screenplay

1963
Magnet of Doom

as Dialogue

1962
Le Doulos

as Screenplay

1961
1959
1956
Bob le Flambeur

as Writer

1950
1949
1949

Producer

1956
Bob le Flambeur

as Producer

1950
The Strange Ones

as Producer

1949
The Silence of the Sea

as Executive Producer

Editor

1970
Le Cercle Rouge

as Editor

Crew

2018
Thlípsi

as Thanks

Art

1950
The Strange Ones

as Production Design