Jean-Pierre Melville
Directing
Born October 20, 1917 in Paris, France
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.
Filmography
Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville
Melville, le dernier samouraï
(archives)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Self (archive footage)
Thlípsi
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, le magnifique
Self (archive footage)
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville
Self (archive footage)
Their First Films
The Good Thief
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Self (archive footage)
Un Flic
Midi trente
Self (archive footage)
Le Cercle Rouge
Army of Shadows
Le Samouraï
Le Deuxième Souffle
Magnet of Doom
Bluebeard
Clemenceau's Aide
Le Doulos
Le Combat dans l'île
Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
Sign of the Lion
Un Consommateur (uncredited)
Léon Morin, Priest
Breathless
Parvulesco the Writer
Two Men in Manhattan
Moreau
A Girl in a Pocket
Commissioner
Bob le Flambeur
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Cinépanorama
Self
When You Read This Letter
Orpheus
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
The Strange Ones
The Silence of the Sea
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Narrator (uncredited)