Known For
Directing
Born
Oct 20, 1917
Died
Aug 02, 1973
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
39 titles
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
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
Original Film Writer
Melville, le dernier samouraï
(archives)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Self (archive footage)
Thlípsi
Thanks
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
Director
The Good Thief
Original Film Writer
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Thanks
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Self (archive footage)
Un Flic
Director
Midi trente
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
Himself
Le Cercle Rouge
Editor
Army of Shadows
Director
Le Samouraï
Screenplay
Le Deuxième Souffle
Writer
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Self - Interviewee
Magnet of Doom
Director
Bluebeard
Clemenceau's Aide
Le Doulos
Director
Le Combat dans l'île
Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
Sign of the Lion
Un Consommateur (uncredited)
Léon Morin, Priest
Director
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
Director
Orpheus
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
The Strange Ones
Director
The Silence of the Sea
Director
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Narrator (uncredited)