François Boyer

Scenariusz, Aktor

30 marca 1920 — 24 maja 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

  • Zakazane zabawy
    Zakazane zabawy1952
  • Małpa w zimie
    Małpa w zimie1962
  • Weekend w Zuydcoote
    Weekend w Zuydcoote1964
  • Wojna guzików
    Wojna guzików1962
  • Ogrodnik z Argenteuil
    Ogrodnik z Argenteuil1966
  • Kobieta w niebieskim
    Kobieta w niebieskim1973
  • Forbidden Priests
    Forbidden Priests1973
  • Na trasie do Bordeaux
    Na trasie do Bordeaux1956
  • Mały uciekinier
    Mały uciekinier1970
  • Bebert and the Train
    Bebert and the Train1963
  • A Kiss for a Killer
    A Kiss for a Killer1957
  • Jak bezpańskie psy
    Jak bezpańskie psy1955
  • Gracz
    Gracz1958
  • Bar na skrzyżowaniu
    Bar na skrzyżowaniu1972
  • Les Copains
    Les Copains1965
  • Intryganci
    Intryganci1954
  • Green Harvest
    Green Harvest1959
  • Double Deception
    Double Deception1960
  • Pod znakiem Byka
    Pod znakiem Byka1969
  • Graf Luckner
    Graf Luckner3 seasons

Filmografia

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