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Known For
Directing
Birthday
October 20, 1917
Died
August 2, 1973
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
0.5 Popularity
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
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
2024
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
2023
7.4
(archives)
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
2018
7.7
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, le magnifique
2017
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
2011
6.7
Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville
2010
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
1977
🎬
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Midi trente
1972
Credits
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.0
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.5
Melville, le dernier samouraï
as (archives)
2020
7.4
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.0
Lino Ventura, la part intime
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.8
Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)
2017
7.7
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
as Self (archive footage)
2011
0.0
Code Name: Melville
as Self (archive footage)
2010
6.7
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
as Self (archive footage)
1977
5.5
🎬
Midi trente
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
🎬
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
as Himself
1971
7.2
🎬
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
as Self - Interviewee
1966
0.0
Bluebeard
as Clemenceau's Aide
1963
6.3
Le Combat dans l’île
as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
1962
6.7
Sign of the Lion
as Un Consommateur (uncredited)
1962
7.0
Breathless
as Parvulesco the Writer
1960
7.5
Two Men in Manhattan
as Moreau
1959
6.3
A Girl in a Pocket
as Commissioner
1957
4.3
Bob le Flambeur
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1956
7.3
Cinépanorama
as Self
1956
8.0
Orpheus
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1950
7.7
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
as Narrator (uncredited)
1946
6.0