François Boyer

Schrijver, Acteur

30 maart 1920 — 24 mei 2003 (83 years)
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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Known For

  • Jeux interdits
    Jeux interdits1952
  • Weekend bij Duinkerken
    Weekend bij Duinkerken1964
  • A Monkey in Winter
    A Monkey in Winter1962
  • La Guerre des boutons
    La Guerre des boutons1962
  • The Woman in Blue
    The Woman in Blue1973
  • Forbidden Priests
    Forbidden Priests1973
  • People of No Importance
    People of No Importance1956
  • Le Petit Bougnat
    Le Petit Bougnat1970
  • Bebert and the Train
    Bebert and the Train1963
  • The Little Rebels
    The Little Rebels1955
  • Green Harvest
    Green Harvest1959
  • The Gardener of Argenteuil
    The Gardener of Argenteuil1966
  • A Kiss for a Killer
    A Kiss for a Killer1957
  • Le joueur
    Le joueur1958
  • The Bar at the Crossing
    The Bar at the Crossing1972
  • Les Copains
    Les Copains1965
  • Under the Sign of the Bull
    Under the Sign of the Bull1969
  • Een vrouw zonder geweten
    Een vrouw zonder geweten1954
  • Graf Luckner
    Graf Luckner3 seasons
  • Double Deception
    Double Deception1960

Cinematografie