Jean-Pierre Melville
Known for: Directing
Born: October 19, 1917 in Paris, France - Died: August 1, 1973
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
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Breathless
Parvulesco the Writer
Belmondo, le magnifique
Self (archive footage)
Bluebeard
Clemenceau's Aide
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Narrator (uncredited)
Two Men in Manhattan
Moreau
Le Combat dans l'île
Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
Code Name: Melville
Self (archive footage)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
Himself
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Self (archive footage)
A Girl in a Pocket
Commissioner
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
Self (archive footage)
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Self (archive footage)
Bob le Flambeur
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Self - Interviewee
Melville, le dernier samouraï
(archives)
Sign of the Lion
Un Consommateur (uncredited)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Midi trente
Self (archive footage)
Cinépanorama
Self
Le Samouraï
Screenplay
Le Doulos
Director