Eugène Lourié

Personal Info

Know For

Art

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-04-08 (88 years old)

Deathday

1991-05-26

Place of Birth

Kharkov, Russian Empire [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]

Eugène Lourié

Biography

Eugène Lourié (1903 - 26 May 1991) was a French film director, art director, production designer, set designer and screenwriter who was known for his collaborations with Jean Renoir and for his 1950s science fiction movies. Allmovie contributor, Sandra Brennan, has wrote that he was "among the best art directors in French cinema." He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1969 for best visual effects on the film Krakatoa, East of Java. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eugène Lourié, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1983

Breathless

as Dr. Boudreaux

Production

1937

Grand Illusion

as Set Decoration

1945

The House of Fear

as Art Direction

1961

Gorgo

as Director

1973

1952

Limelight

as Art Direction

1959

1959

The Giant Behemoth

as Screenplay

1934

The Bread Peddler

as Art Direction

1934

The Bread Peddler

as Set Decoration

1945

This Love of Ours

as Art Direction

1947

The Long Night

as Production Design

1943

This Land Is Mine

as Production Design

1948

A Woman's Vengeance

as Art Direction

1929

Cagliostro

as Costume Designer

1927

The Chess Player

as Costume Design

1938

La Bête Humaine

as Production Design

1978

1971

1976

Time Travelers

as Art Direction

1951

The River

as Production Design

1959

The Giant Behemoth

as Production Design

1937

Alibi

as Production Design

1940

There's No Tomorrow

as Art Direction

1944

In Society

as Art Direction

1963

Shock Corridor

as Art Direction

1965

Crack in the World

as Art Direction

1965

Crack in the World

as Special Effects

1943

This Land Is Mine

as Associate Producer

1927

Napoleon

as Art Direction

1980

Bronco Billy

as Art Direction

1976

Burnt Offerings

as Production Design

1938

Rasputin

as Production Design

1938

Rasputin

as Art Direction

1968

Krakatoa, East of Java

as Production Design

1945

The Southerner

as Production Design

1964

Flight from Ashiya

as Production Design

1939

The Rules of the Game

as Production Design

1978

An Enemy of the People

as Production Design

1935

Dark Eyes

as Art Direction

1938

The Lafarge Case

as Art Direction

1937

Grand Illusion

as Production Design

1962

Confessions of an Opium Eater

as Production Design

1940

The French Way

as Art Direction

1972

Haunts of the Very Rich

as Art Direction

1967

Bikini Paradise

as Art Direction

1954

So This Is Paris

as Art Direction

1964

The Naked Kiss

as Art Direction

1971

Death Takes a Holiday

as Art Direction

1940

Cristobal's Gold

as Art Direction

1946

The Diary of a Chambermaid

as Production Design

1972

The Eyes of Charles Sand

as Art Direction

1967

Custer of the West

as Art Direction

1949

Wild Weed

as Art Direction

1972

The Delphi Bureau

as Art Direction

1943

Sahara

as Assistant Art Director

1964

The Strangler

as Art Direction

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