Frédéric Dard

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1921-06-29 (79 years old)

Deathday

2000-06-06

Place of Birth

Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France

Frédéric Dard

Biography

Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard; 29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) was a French crime writer. He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the San-Antonio book series. Frédéric Dard wrote 175 adventures of San-Antonio, of which millions of copies were sold. Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio is a kind of French James Bond without gadgets, flanked by two colleagues, the old, sickly but wise inspector César Pinaud and the gargantuesque inspector Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier. He ...

Production

2004

San Antonio

as Novel

1962

Crime Does Not Pay

as Scenario Writer

1958

1959

1960

The Wretches

as Novel

1962

1986

1960

Premeditated

as Novel

1956

Daddy's Gang

as Writer

1960

The Wretches

as Dialogue

1959

1960

Rendezvous

as Writer

2024

Merry Christmas

as Original Story

1961

The Menace

as Screenplay

1955

The Wicked Go to Hell

as Theatre Play

1975

Death Rite

as Novel

1955

1960

Rendezvous

as Director

1958

Back to the Wall

as Adaptation

1958

Back to the Wall

as Dialogue

1993

1993

Coma

as Novel

1961

1962

1963

The Accident

as Screenplay

1961

House of Sin

as Writer

1960

The Wretches

as Screenplay

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Moths

as Writer

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