Jean Aurenche

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-09-10 (89 years old)

Deathday

1992-09-29

Place of Birth

Pierrelatte, Drôme, France

Jean Aurenche

Biography

Jean Aurenche (1903–1992) was a French screenwriter. During his career, he wrote 80 films for directors such as René Clément, Bertrand Tavernier, Marcel Carné, Jean Delannoy and Claude Autant-Lara. He is often associated with the screenwriter Pierre Bost, with whom he had a fertile partnership from 1940 to 1975. In the 1920s and 1930s, Jean Aurenche was friends with some members of the surrealist groups. His sister Marie-Berthe was the wife of Max Ernst and Max Ernst soon became friend with Jean Aurenche. Later, he even appeared in some film commercials directed by Jean Aurenche (for the "Nicolas" Wine, the "Barbes" stores and so on...). Jea...

Acting

2010

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma

as Self (archive footage)

1930

L'Âge d'or

as Bandit (uncredited)

Production

1952

Forbidden Games

as Dialogue

1949

1951

The Red Inn

as Screenplay

1981

1959

1956

Gervaise

as Writer

1975

1966

A Woman in White Revolts

as Scenario Writer

1943

Adrien

as Writer

1969

Potatoes

as Writer

1933

Le Colisée

as Screenplay

1933

Le Colisée

as Writer

1946

Pastoral Symphony

as Adaptation

1946

1938

The Stream

as Screenplay

1933

1987

Fucking Fernand

as Scenario Writer

1962

Crime Does Not Pay

as Scenario Writer

1940

The Emigrant

as Story

1982

1942

Love Letters

as Writer

1962

1961

1954

1965

A Woman in White

as Adaptation

1959

Way of Youth

as Writer

1942

1958

1943

Douce

as Adaptation

1943

Douce

as Dialogue

1942

1942

Love Letters

as Dialogue

1961

1947

1942

1952

1937

1950

God Needs Men

as Screenplay

1941

Madame Sans-Gêne

as Screenplay

1931

1931

1965

Black Humor

as Writer

1961

Rendezvous

as Writer

1958

The Gambler

as Writer

1938

The Lafarge Case

as Screenplay

1938

1943

Douce

as Screenplay

1946

1949

1963

Enough Rope

as Screenplay

1951

The Red Inn

as Story

1955

The Little Rebels

as Adaptation

1955

2007

The Red Inn

as Story

1960

1951

Gigolo

as Writer

1932

1933

Le Colisée

as Director

1944

The Lightning Rod Thief

as Original Story

1947

1938

Hôtel du Nord

as Screenplay

1943

The Scarecrow

as Writer

1939

1954

The Game of Love

as Adaptation

1954

The Game of Love

as Dialogue

1958

1932

Levitan: That Night

as Screenplay

1932

1942

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