Pierre Bost

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1901-09-05 (74 years old)

Deathday

1975-12-06

Place of Birth

Lasalle, Gard, France

Pierre Bost

Biography

Pierre Bost (5 September 1901, Lasalle, Gard – 6 December 1975, Paris) was a French screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. Primarily a novelist until the 1940s, he was known mainly as a screenwriter after 1945, often collaborating with Jean Aurenche. In his 1954 article Une Certaine Tendance du Cinéma Français ("A Certain Trend of French Cinema"), François Truffaut attacked the current state of French films, singling out certain screenwriters and producers. The screenwriting team of Bost and Aurenche were criticized for their style of literary adaptations in particular, which Truffaut considered old-fashioned. The journalist Jacques-Lauren...

Acting

2010

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1973

Le château perdu

as Screenplay

1952

Forbidden Games

as Dialogue

1949

1953

Voice of Silence

as Screenplay

1961

Rendezvous

as Screenplay

1946

1962

Crime Does Not Pay

as Scenario Writer

1954

1956

Gervaise

as Writer

1959

Way of Youth

as Writer

1965

Black Humor

as Writer

1943

Douce

as Adaptation

1943

Douce

as Dialogue

1961

1947

1952

1950

God Needs Men

as Screenplay

1946

Homeland

as Dialogue

1950

The Glass Castle

as Screenplay

1958

The Gambler

as Writer

1943

Douce

as Screenplay

1949

1963

Enough Rope

as Screenplay

1951

The Red Inn

as Screenplay

1942

The Trump Card

as Dialogue

1955

1955

The Little Rebels

as Adaptation

1947

1943

1943

1954

The Game of Love

as Adaptation

1954

The Game of Love

as Dialogue

1958

1961

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