Léonide Moguy

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-07-14 (77 years old)

Deathday

1976-04-21

Place of Birth

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Léonide Moguy

Biography

Léonide Moguy (14 July 1899 – 21 April 1976) was a Ukrainian, French and Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor. Moguy was born Leonid Mohylevskyi (Леонід Могилевський) in Odesa, Russian Empire in 1899 in a Jewish family. He lived in Soviet Ukraine until 1929, in the United States in the 1940s, and in Italy from 1949 until his death. He was active in film between 1927 and 1961. His work has influenced American director Quentin Tarantino, who discovered him while writing the script for Inglourious Basterds, and named a character after him in Django Unchained. Mohylevskyi was born in Odesa in a family of a merchandise worker. Dur...

Production

1942

El gran secreto

as Original Story

1946

Whistle Stop

as Director

1939

The Deserter

as Director

1943

Paris After Dark

as Director

1951

1953

Children of Love

as Director

1935

Divine

as Editor

1938

1947

Bethsabée

as Director

1950

1957

1928

1952

1952

100 Little Mothers

as Screenplay

1952

1952

100 Little Mothers

as Supervising Art Director

1935

Divine

as Director of Photography

1935

Baccara

as Assistant Director

1950

1938

Conflit

as Director

1956

1938

Conflit

as Scenario Writer

1950

Tomorrow Is Too Late

as Associate Producer

1936

1944

Action in Arabia

as Director

1938

Prison Without Bars

as Adaptation

1940

Two Women

as Director

1961

1961

1957

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