Jean-Pierre Melville
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.
Breathless
(Parvulesco the Writer)
Belmondo, le magnifique
(Self (archive footage))
Bluebeard
(Clemenceau's Aide)
Les Rois de la comédie
(Self (archive footage))
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
(Narrator (uncredited))
Two Men in Manhattan
(Moreau)
Le Combat dans l’île
(Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited))
Orpheus
(Hotel Manager (uncredited))
Code Name: Melville
(Self)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
(Self (archive footage))
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses
(Himself)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante
(Self (archive footage))
A Girl in a Pocket
(Commissioner)
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night
(Self (archive footage))
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
(Self (archive footage))
Lino Ventura, la part intime
(Self (archive footage))
Bob le Flambeur
(Narrator (voice) (uncredited))
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
(Self - Interviewee)
Melville, le dernier samouraï
((archives))
Sign of the Lion
(Un Consommateur (uncredited))
Midi trente
(Self (archive footage))
Cinépanorama
(Self)
Le Samouraï
(Director)
Le Samouraï
(Screenplay)
Le Doulos
(Director)
Le Doulos
(Screenplay)
The Good Thief
(Screenplay)
Le Cercle Rouge
(Director)
Le Cercle Rouge
(Editor)
Bob le Flambeur
(Director)
Bob le Flambeur
(Producer)
Two Men in Manhattan
(Director)
The Silence of the Sea
(Director)
The Silence of the Sea
(Adaptation)
A Cop
(Director)
A Cop
(Writer)
Army of Shadows
(Director)
Army of Shadows
(Screenplay)
The Strange Ones
(Director)
Léon Morin, Priest
(Director)
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
(Director)
Magnet of Doom
(Director)
Magnet of Doom
(Dialogue)
Magnet of Doom
(Screenplay)
When You Read This Letter
(Director)
Their First Films
(Director)
Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville
(Original Film Writer)
The Silence of the Sea
(Screenplay)
The Strange Ones
(Writer)
The Silence of the Sea
(Executive Producer)
The Silence of the Sea
(Editor)
The Strange Ones
(Producer)
The Strange Ones
(Production Design)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
(Thanks)
Léon Morin, Priest
(Writer)
Le Deuxième Souffle
(Writer)
Le Deuxième Souffle
(Director)
When You Read This Letter
(Producer)
Bob le Flambeur
(Writer)
Two Men in Manhattan
(Writer)
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
(Producer)
Thlípsi
(Thanks)
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown
(Screenplay)
Le Cercle Rouge
(Writer)