Directing
Jean-Pierre Melville
FR, EN, KO cinema · 37 credits
Born
20 October 1917
Died
2 August 1973 (aged 55)
Birthplace
Paris, France
Also known as Jean-Pierre Grumbach · 让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔 · 장피에르 멜빌 · 장-피에르 멜빌 · 장 피에르 멜빌
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969). Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
as Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie
as Self (archive footage)
Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville
Original Film Writer
Melville, le dernier samouraï
as (archives)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
as Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
as Self (archive footage)
Thlípsi
Thanks
Belmondo, le magnifique
as Self (archive footage)
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
as Self (archive footage)
Code Name: Melville
as Self (archive footage)
The Good Thief
Original Film Writer
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
as Self (archive footage)
Un Flic
Director, Writer
Le Cercle Rouge
Director, Editor, Writer
Army of Shadows
Director, Screenplay
Le Samouraï
Director, Screenplay
Jean-Pierre Melville tourne "Le 2ème souffle"
1966
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
as Self - Interviewee
Le Deuxième Souffle
Writer, Director
Bluebeard
as Clemenceau's Aide
Magnet of Doom
Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
Le Combat dans l'île
as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
Sign of the Lion
as Un Consommateur (uncredited)
Le Doulos
Director, Screenplay
Léon Morin, Priest
Director, Writer
Breathless
as Parvulesco the Writer
Two Men in Manhattan
as Moreau, Director, Writer
A Girl in a Pocket
as Commissioner
Bob le Flambeur
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
When You Read This Letter
Director, Producer
Orpheus
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
The Strange Ones
Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
The Silence of the Sea
Director, Adaptation, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Editor
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
as Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer, Screenplay