Jean Delannoy

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-01-12 (100 years old)

Deathday

2008-06-18

Place of Birth

Noisy-le-Sec, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Jean Delannoy

Biography

Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion, and settled first in Wallonia. Afterwards, their name became De la Noye and then Delano, who were on the second ship to immigrate to Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a student in Paris when he began acting in silent films. He eventually landed a job with Paramount Studios Parisian facilities, working his way up to h...

Production

1954

Obsession

as Director

1954

Obsession

as Writer

1958

1958

Maigret Sets a Trap

as Adaptation

1943

1988

Bernadette

as Director

1951

Savage Triangle

as Director

1951

1960

1961

1955

1967

Action Man

as Director

1950

God Needs Men

as Director

1946

1946

Pastoral Symphony

as Adaptation

1965

Le Majordome

as Director

1948

1947

1945

Blind Desire

as Writer

1966

The Sultans

as Director

1970

Only the Cool

as Director

1995

Mary of Nazareth

as Director

1962

Imperial Venus

as Director

1962

1937

Feu!

as Editor

1941

The Black Diamond

as Screenplay

1944

The Hunchback

as Director

1954

1942

Gambling Hell

as Director

1967

Action Man

as Adaptation

1938

Golden Venus

as Director

1942

Fièvres

as Director

1959

Guinguette

as Director

1972

1972

1951

1965

1961

Rendezvous

as Director

1936

1936

Club de femmes

as Assistant Director

1945

Blind Desire

as Director

1938

1934

Paris-Deauville

as Director

1965

The Double Bed

as Director

1955

The Little Rebels

as Screenplay

1951

Savage Triangle

as Adaptation

1941

1953

Napoleon Road

as Director

1954

1988

Bernadette

as Writer

1966

The Sultans

as Writer

1932

The Beautiful Sailor

as Additional Storyboarding

1942

1970

Only the Cool

as Screenplay

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