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Frédéric Dard

Writer, Additional Credits
Born June 29, 1921Died June 6, 2000 (78 years)
Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard; 29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) was a French crime writer. He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the San-Antonio book series.

Frédéric Dard wrote 175 adventures of San-Antonio, of which millions of copies were sold. Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio is a kind of French James Bond without gadgets, flanked by two colleagues, the old, sickly but wise inspector César Pinaud and the gargantuesque inspector Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier. He is a member of the French secret service and has to fulfill impossible missions given by "Le Vieux" (the Old Man), later known as "Achilles", the head of the French police. With the help of his colleagues he always succeeds through various adventures.

Dard won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for The Executioner Weeps.

Source: Article "Frédéric Dard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

  • Merry Christmas
  • San Antonio
  • Back to the Wall
  • The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea
  • Blonde in a White Car
  • Is There a Frenchman in the House?
  • Paris Pick-Up
  • The Tiger Attacks
  • The Wicked Go to Hell
  • The Strange Mr. Steve
  • The Accident
  • The Wretches
  • Action immédiate
  • Port of Desire
  • La menace
  • Death Rite
  • Sale temps pour les mouches
  • Les Menteurs
  • M'sieur la Caille
  • L'empire de la nuit
  • San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
  • Leon's Husband

Filmography

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