Jacques Becker
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Becker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A Day in the Country
(Seminarian (uncredited))
Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié
(Un Saint-Cyrien)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
(Le Poète (uncredited))
Le Bled
(Un ouvrier agricole)
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
(The crown prince)
Chotard and Co.
(Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited))
Grand Illusion
(L'officier anglais)
Life Is Ours
(Le jeune chômeur)
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker
(Self (archive footage))
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self (archive footage))
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
(Director)
Le Trou
(Director)
Antoine & Antoinette
(Director)
Life Is Ours
(Director)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(Director)
Casque d'Or
(Director)
Casque d'Or
(Adaptation)
Casque d'Or
(Screenplay)
The Lovers of Montparnasse
(Director)
It Happened at the Inn
(Director)
Rendezvous in July
(Writer)
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
(Director)
The Trump Card
(Director)
Paris Frills
(Director)
Rendezvous in July
(Director)
Le Trou
(Dialogue)
Le Trou
(Screenplay)
Edward and Caroline
(Director)
Rue de l'Estrapade
(Director)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
(Writer)
It Happened at the Inn
(Adaptation)
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
(Writer)
Casque d'Or
(Dialogue)
Night at the Crossroads
(Assistant Director)
Night at the Crossroads
(Production Manager)
Boudu Saved from Drowning
(Assistant Director)
Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié
(Screenplay)
Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié
(Director)
Grand Illusion
(First Assistant Director)
Antoine & Antoinette
(Writer)
Cristobal's Gold
(Director)
Edward and Caroline
(Writer)
Paris Frills
(Writer)
A Day in the Country
(First Assistant Director)
The Lovers of Montparnasse
(Screenplay)
Life Is Ours
(Writer)
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
(Screenplay)