Jean-Charles Tacchella

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-09-23 (99 years old)

Deathday

2024-08-29

Place of Birth

Cherbourg, Manche, Haute-Normandie, France

Jean-Charles Tacchella

Biography

Jean-Charles Tacchella (born 23 September 1925) is a French screenwriter and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film Cousin Cousine (1975), which was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and which was later (1989) remade in a US version starring Ted Danson and titled Cousins. Jean-Charles Tacchella studied in Marseilles and, just after the Liberation, left for Paris with the aim of becoming a film director. He joined L'écran Français when he was nineteen where he worked with Renoir, Becker and Grémillon. While with the magazine, he wrote about filmmakers, a...

Acting

1960

The Itchy Palm

as Second priest (uncredited)

1970

Happy He Who Like Ulysses

as Motorist / Man at the arenas of Arles (uncredited)

Production

1985

Staircase C

as Director

1987

Travelling avant

as Director

1962

Crime Does Not Pay

as Scenario Writer

1992

1981

Croque la vie

as Screenplay

1981

Croque la vie

as Director

1975

Cousin, Cousine

as Director

1987

1992

1959

Time Bomb

as Story

1959

Time Bomb

as Screenplay

1979

Silver Anniversary

as Screenplay

1979

1960

The Itchy Palm

as Screenplay

1958

1959

1971

1990

Gallant Ladies

as Director

1990

1995

Seven Sundays

as Writer

1995

Seven Sundays

as Director

1962

1989

Cousins

as Original Story

1966

Long March

as Writer

1977

Blue Country

as Writer

1977

Blue Country

as Director

1955

1975

Cousin, Cousine

as Screenplay

1964

The Big Hit

as Adaptation

1985

Staircase C

as Writer

1965

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