Marcel Carné

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-08-18 (90 years old)

Deathday

1996-10-31

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Marcel Carné

Biography

Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Marcel Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in silent film as a camera assistant with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carné had already directed his first short film, Nogent, Eldorado du dimanche (1929). He assisted Feyder (and René Clair) on several films through to La kermesse héroïque (1935). Feyder accepted an invitation to work in England for Alexander Korda, for whom he made Knight Without ...

Production

1945

1971

Law Breakers

as Director

1971

Law Breakers

as Screenplay

1974

1974

The Marvelous Visit

as Screenplay

1939

Daybreak

as Director

1936

Carnival in Flanders

as Assistant Director

1954

Air of Paris

as Director

1946

1942

1938

Port of Shadows

as Director

1958

The Cheaters

as Director

1938

Hôtel du Nord

as Director

1950

1953

Thérèse Raquin

as Director

1953

Thérèse Raquin

as Adaptation

1936

Jenny

as Director

1937

Bizarre, Bizarre

as Director

1960

Wasteland

as Director

1934

The Great Game

as Assistant Director

1935

Pension Mimosas

as Assistant Director

1954

Air of Paris

as Screenplay

1950

1977

The Bible

as Director

1935

Parisian Life

as Dialogue

1958

The Cheaters

as Scenario Writer

1958

The Cheaters

as Adaptation

1968

Young Wolves

as Director

1977

The Bible

as Writer

1935

Carnival in Flanders

as Assistant Director

1968

Young Wolves

as Writer

1929

Cagliostro

as Assistant Director

1960

Wasteland

as Writer

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