Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 15, 1906
Died
Feb 21, 1960
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
28 titles
Jacques Becker
Biography
Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as Partie de campagne (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937). In the early part of World War II, Becker was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp for a year. During the Nazi occupation of France, he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'or held in high esteem among film critics. Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Becker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker
Self (archive footage)
Le Trou
Director
The Lovers of Montparnasse
Director
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
The crown prince
Cinépanorama
Self
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Director
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Director
Rue de l'estrapade
Director
Casque d'Or
Adaptation
Edward and Caroline
Director
On the Set of 'Casque D'Or'
Self (Archive Footage)
Rendezvous in July
Writer
Antoine & Antoinette
Director
A Day in the Country
Seminarian (uncredited)
Paris Frills
Director
It Happened at the Inn
Director
The Trump Card
Director
Cristobal's Gold
Director
The Great Hope
Director
Grand Illusion
British Officer (uncredited)
Life Is Ours
Le jeune chômeur
Pitiless Gendarme
Un Saint-Cyrien
Chotard and Co.
Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Le Poète (uncredited)
Night at the Crossroads
Assistant Director
Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique
Assistant Director
Le Bled
Un ouvrier agricole