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Jacques Becker

Actor, Director, Writer, Additional Credits
Born September 15, 1906Died February 21, 1960 (53 years)
Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.

Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as Partie de campagne (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937). In the early part of World War II, Becker was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp for a year. During the Nazi occupation of France, he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'or held in high esteem among film critics.

Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

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Known For

  • The Hole
  • The Grand Illusion
  • Don't Touch the Loot
  • Casque d'Or
  • A Day in the Country
  • Boudu Saved from Drowning
  • Montparnasse 19
  • Antoine & Antoinette
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
  • It Happened at the Inn
  • Night at the Crossroads
  • Edward and Caroline
  • The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
  • Paris Frills
  • Rendezvous in July
  • Francoise Steps Out
  • The Trump Card
  • Cristobal's Gold
  • Le Bled

Filmography

1957
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin · as The Crown Prince
1946
A Day in the Country · as Seminarian (uncredited)
1938
The Human Beast · as Un Lampiste
1937
The Grand Illusion · as L'officier Anglais
1936
The Lower Depths · as Un Promeneur
1936
Life Is Ours · as Le Jeune Chômeur
1933
Chotard and Company · as Un Invité Au Bal Costumé (uncredited)
1932
Boudu Saved from Drowning · as Le Poète (uncredited)
1929
Le Bled · as Un Ouvrier Agricole

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