François Boyer

Scénariste, Acteur

30 mars 1920 — 24 mai 2003 (83 ans)
François Boyer (1920 - 24 May 2003) was a French screenwriter. He achieved considerable success with his first attempt at screenwriting, Forbidden Games (1952). Initially, he found no studio interested in his work, so he redesigned the screenplay as a novel and published it in 1947 under the title The Secret Game. Although the novel achieved little or no success in its native country, it became a huge commercial success in America. All of a sudden, Boyer's novel was a hot property, so director René Clément, in conjunction with two writers Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, helped turn it into a screenplay. While Boyer receives story credit for the film, little is known of how much of his own screenplay made it to the screen. The film was a huge international success, and won an Honorary Oscar for the best foreign language film of its year.

Although Boyer remained prolific throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, little of his subsequent work had as much impact as Forbidden Games. His 1962 film La Guerre des Boutons, however, was remade by producer David Puttnam in 1994 as The War of the Buttons.

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Connue pour

  • Jeux interdits
    Jeux interdits1952
  • Week-end à Zuydcoote
    Week-end à Zuydcoote1964
  • Un singe en hiver
    Un singe en hiver1962
  • La Guerre des boutons
    La Guerre des boutons1962
  • Des gens sans importance
    Des gens sans importance1956
  • La Femme en bleu
    La Femme en bleu1973
  • Prêtres interdits
    Prêtres interdits1973
  • Le Petit Bougnat
    Le Petit Bougnat1970
  • Bébert et l'Omnibus
    Bébert et l'Omnibus1963
  • Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil
    Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil1966
  • Une manche et la belle
    Une manche et la belle1957
  • Chiens perdus sans collier
    Chiens perdus sans collier1955
  • Le Joueur
    Le Joueur1958
  • Le Bar de la fourche
    Le Bar de la fourche1972
  • Les Copains
    Les Copains1965
  • Sous le signe du taureau
    Sous le signe du taureau1969
  • Les Intrigantes
    Les Intrigantes1954
  • La Verte Moisson
    La Verte Moisson1959
  • Les magiciennes
    Les magiciennes1960
  • Les Aventures du capitaine Lückner
    Les Aventures du capitaine Lückner3 saisons

Filmographie

1962
War of the Buttons · as Priest (uncredited)

1964
Weekend at Dunkirk · as Adaptation
1959
Green Harvest · as Dialogue
1957
A Kiss for a Killer · as Dialogue
1956
1955
The Little Rebels · as Adaptation