Jack Pinoteau

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-09-20 (94 years old)

Deathday

2017-04-06

Place of Birth

Clairefontaine, Seine-et-Oise [now Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, Yvelines], France

Jack Pinoteau

Biography

Jack Albert Louis Charles Pinoteau, known as Jack Pinoteau, is a French director and screenwriter, born on September 20, 1923 in Clairefontaine and died on April 6, 2017 in Chesnay. Jack Pinoteau, born in 1923 near Paris in a family of acrobats. His father Lucien was a stage manager. His sister, the eldest of the siblings, Jacqueline Pinoteau will become a recognized actress under her stage name Arlette Merry. His younger brother Claude Pinoteau before directing La Boum and La Boum 2, one of the greatest popular successes of the early 80s, was an assistant director sought after by a host of leading directors. The list is impressive: Jean Coc...

Acting

1944

Children of Chaos

as Youth from the center (uncredited)

Production

1950

The Strollers

as Assistant Director

1963

People in Luck

as Director

1957

The Tricyclist

as Director

1957

The Tricyclist

as Scenario Writer

1960

1957

1964

Hard Boiled Ones

as Adaptation

1991

1950

One Only Loves Once

as First Assistant Director

1954

The Big Flag

as Adaptation

1952

They Were Five

as Director

1954

The Big Flag

as Director

1964

Hard Boiled Ones

as Director

1958

Honey, Scare Me

as Director

1958

The Sicilian

as Writer

1950

Bouzareah

as Director

1950

Bouzareah

as Writer

1950

Minne

as Assistant Director

1963

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