René Wheeler

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-02-08 (88 years old)

Deathday

2000-12-11

Place of Birth

Paris, France

René Wheeler

Biography

René Wheeler (8 February 1912 - 11 December 2000) was a French screenwriter and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales (1945) with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus (2004). Wheeler also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1955 heist film Rififi. Source: Article "René Wheeler" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Production

1955

Rififi

as Screenplay

1949

Jour de Fête

as Screenplay

1946

Alert Nights

as Writer

1954

Castles in Spain

as Director

1962

Crime Does Not Pay

as Scenario Writer

1947

1952

1950

1957

1956

1955

1963

Chicken Soup

as Adaptation

1960

Towards Ecstasy

as Director

1954

1954

1952

1946

The Faceless Enemy

as Screenplay

1956

1970

Peace in the Fields

as Screenplay

1957

1960

1950

1953

1953

1943

A Star to the Sun

as Screenplay

1948

1951

Utopia

as Writer

1945

2004

The Chorus

as Original Film Writer

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