Michel Deville

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1931-04-13 (92 years old)

Deathday

2023-02-16

Place of Birth

Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Michel Deville

Biography

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.

Production

1967

Tender Sharks

as Director

1974

Love at the Top

as Director

2002

Almost Peaceful

as Director

1970

1986

The Nonentity

as Director

1961

Tonight or Never

as Director

1991

Against Oblivion

as Director

1978

Dossier 51

as Director

1988

La Lectrice

as Director

1962

Adorable Liar

as Director

1980

A Sweet Journey

as Director

1954

The Secrets of the Bed

as Assistant Director

1999

Sachs' Disease

as Director

1981

Deep Water

as Director

2005

1973

1990

1983

The Little Bunch

as Director

1963

Girl's Apartment

as Director

1966

Soldier Martin

as Director

1966

Soldier Martin

as Adaptation

1973

1964

Lucky Jo

as Director

1969

Bye Bye Barbara

as Director

1969

Bye Bye Barbara

as Adaptation

1992

Sweetheart

as Director

1964

1964

Lucky Jo

as Screenplay

1980

1984

Les Capricieux

as Director

1964

1977

1977

1963

1988

La Lectrice

as Writer

1978

Dossier 51

as Writer

1962

Adorable Liar

as Writer

1961

1981

Deep Water

as Screenplay

1986

The Nonentity

as Screenplay

1999

1955

Razzia

as Second Assistant Director

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