José Giovanni
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1923-06-22 (81 years old)
Deathday
2004-04-24
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also known As
Jose Giovanni
Joseph Damiani
José Giovanni
Biography
José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques, overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. In his films as well as his novels, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world, he of...
Acting
Production
1969
as Screenplay
1973
as Director
1963
as Writer
1967
as Screenplay
1960
as Dialogue
1960
as Adaptation
1960
as Novel
1960
as Novel
1967
as Novel
1961
as Dialogue
1961
as Novel
1970
as Director
1983
as Director
1972
as Director
1991
as Director
1975
as Director
1979
as Director
2007
as Novel
2007
as Dialogue
1972
as Writer
1960
as Screenplay
1960
as Dialogue
1967
as Director
1996
as Director
1968
as Director
1976
as Director
1963
as Adaptation
1963
as Dialogue
1976
as Writer
1973
as Screenplay
1973
as Dialogue
1985
as Director
1971
as Screenplay
1971
as Director
1981
as Writer
1965
as Dialogue
1965
as Novel
1968
as Writer
1979
as Writer
1969
as Dialogue
1966
as Writer
1975
as Novel
1972
as Author
1972
as Novel
1968
as Novel
1975
as Screenplay
1996
as Writer
1988
as Director
1971
as Writer
2001
as Director
1966
as Writer
1970
as Writer
1983
as Writer
1983
as Novel
1981
as Director
1971
as Director
1966
as Writer
2014
as Screenplay
1963
as Dialogue
2001
as Writer
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as Novel
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as Original Film Writer
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