Jacques Becker
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1906-09-15 (54 years old)
Deathday
1960-02-21
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also known As
ジャック・ベッケル
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 gangst...
Acting
1946
as Seminarian (uncredited)
1935
as Un Saint-Cyrien
1932
as Le Poète (uncredited)
1929
as Un ouvrier agricole
1957
as The crown prince
1933
as Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited)
1937
as L'officier anglais
1936
as Le jeune chômeur
1967
as Self (archive footage)
1951
as Self (Archive Footage)
Production
1954
as Director
1960
as Director
1947
as Director
1936
as Director
1954
as Director
1952
as Adaptation
1952
as Screenplay
1952
as Director
1958
as Director
1943
as Director
1949
as Writer
1957
as Director
1942
as Director
1945
as Director
1949
as Director
1960
as Dialogue
1960
as Screenplay
1951
as Director
1953
as Director
1954
as Writer
1943
as Adaptation
1957
as Writer
1952
as Dialogue
1932
as Assistant Director
1932
as Production Manager
1932
as Assistant Director
1935
as Screenplay
1935
as Director
1937
as First Assistant Director
1947
as Writer
1940
as Director
1945
as Writer
1951
as Writer
1946
as First Assistant Director
1958
as Screenplay
1936
as Writer
1954
as Screenplay
1931
as Assistant Director
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