Alain Corneau

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1943-08-07 (67 years old)

Deathday

2010-08-30

Place of Birth

Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret, France

Alain Corneau

Biography

Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career, including Police Python 357 (1976) and La Menace (1977). He directed Gérard Depardieu in the screen adaptation of Tous les matins du monde in 1991. Corneau died on 30 August 2010 from cancer,  and was interred at Pere-Lachaise cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Corneau, licensed und...

Acting

2022

Patrick Dewaere, My Hero

as Self (archive footage) - director

2009

Beauties at War

as Le réalisateur

Production

1984

Fort Saganne

as Director

2003

1981

1981

Choice of Arms

as Director

1976

1979

Serie Noire

as Director

1979

Serie Noire

as Writer

1995

1991

Against Oblivion

as Director

2010

Love Crime

as Director

1997

The Cousin

as Director

1977

La Menace

as Director

1977

La Menace

as Screenplay

2007

The Second Wind

as Dialogue

2007

The Second Wind

as Screenplay

2007

The Second Wind

as Director

2013

Passion

as Original Story

2005

Words in Blue

as Director

1989

Nocturne Indien

as Director

1995

The New World

as Writer

1995

The New World

as Director

1974

2003

The Brainwashers

as Associate Producer

1989

1986

Extreme Justice

as Director

1984

Fort Saganne

as Screenplay

1970

The Confession

as Assistant Director

2003

1976

2010

Love Crime

as Writer

1974

Les Deux mémoires

as Second Unit

1969

Time to Live

as Assistant Director

1977

J.A. Martin Photographer

as Boom Operator

2005

Words in Blue

as Screenplay

1973

1970

Atlantic Wall

as Assistant Director

1997

The Cousin

as Writer

1971

It Only Happens to Others

as Assistant Director

1969

The American

as Assistant Director

1974

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