Jean Grémillon
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-03-04 (61 years old)
Deathday
1959-11-25
Place of Birth
Bayeux, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Also known As
Jean Gremillon
Jean Grémillon
Biography
Jean Grémillon was a French film director. After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now lost, Grémillon had his first substantial success with the dramatic feature Maldone in 1928. Over the next quarter-century, he directed twenty more feature films, of which he is best known for five made between 1937 and 1944: Gueule d'amour (1937), L'Étrange M. Victor (1938), Remorques (1941), Lumière d'été (1943), and Le Ciel est à vous (1944), all but the first starring Madeleine Renaud. Grémillon rejected what he referred to as "mechanical naturalism" in favor of "the discovery of that subtlety which the human eye does not perc...
Acting
1949
as Narrator
1952
as Narrator (voice)
Production
1956
as Original Music Composer
1928
as Original Music Composer
1941
as Director
1943
as Director
1953
as Director
1949
as Director
1929
as Director
1937
as Director
1932
as Director
1944
as Director
1938
as Director
1930
as Director
1928
as Director
1924
as Director
1934
as Director
1934
as Writer
1937
as Director
1947
as Writer
1936
as Director
1947
as Director
1951
as Director
1955
as Director
1932
as Director
1949
as Director
1923
as Editor
1949
as Screenplay
1923
as Director
1958
as Director
1958
as Screenplay
1956
as Director
1926
as Writer
1926
as Director
1926
as Writer
1926
as Director
1937
as Editor
1952
as Writer
1945
as Camera Operator
1926
as Director
1936
as Director
1934
as Director
1952
as Director
1952
as Director
1949
as Director
1934
as Dialogue
1934
as Screenplay
1954
as Director
1953
as Story
1953
as Writer
1953
as Dialogue
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