Jean-Pierre Melville
Directing
Awards
Won 1 Knight of the Legion of Honour Award
Knight of the Legion of Honour 1 won
- — Knight of the Legion of Honour Won
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Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."
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Filmography
Directing
15 credits
Le Samouraï
Le Cercle Rouge
Army of Shadows
Un Flic
Le Doulos
Le Deuxième Souffle
Léon Morin, Priest
Bob le Flambeur
The Silence of the Sea
The Strange Ones
Magnet of Doom
When You Read This Letter
Two Men in Manhattan
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Their First Films
Acting
26 credits
Midi trente
Cinépanorama
Breathless
Orpheus
The Good Thief
Bluebeard
Bob le Flambeur
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
The Silence of the Sea
Le Combat dans l'île
Sign of the Lion
Belmondo, le magnifique
Magnet of Doom
Les Rois de la comédie
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
Two Men in Manhattan
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Lino Ventura, la part intime
Code Name: Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
Melville, le dernier samouraï
A Girl in a Pocket
Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville
Writing
13 credits
Le Samouraï
Le Cercle Rouge
Army of Shadows
Un Flic
Le Doulos
Le Deuxième Souffle
Léon Morin, Priest
Bob le Flambeur
The Silence of the Sea
The Strange Ones
Magnet of Doom
Two Men in Manhattan
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
Other credits
6 credits
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Le Cercle Rouge
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
The Silence of the Sea
Thlípsi
The Strange Ones
Producing
5 credits
Bob le Flambeur
The Silence of the Sea
The Strange Ones
When You Read This Letter
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
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