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 Charles Antoine Dard (29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) also known under the pen name San-Antonio, was a French writer. Known as an author of crime fiction and as a humorist, he was noted for his ability to blend the two genres. Though Dard also wrote serious fiction, his most successful books used a farcical tone. During his lifetime, Dard was the best-selling French-language author in the World. He wrote more than four hundred novels, including the San-Antonio book series, dozens of plays and several screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. ...

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

2025

1959

1959

The Beast Is Loose

as Adaptation

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