Jacques Becker
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 15, 1906
- Died
- February 21, 1960
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
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.
Filmography
- Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker 1967
as Self (archive footage)
Le Trou 1960
Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
The Lovers of Montparnasse 1958
Director, Screenplay
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin 1957
as The crown prince, Director, Writer
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1954
Director, Writer
Touchez Pas au Grisbi 1954
Director, Screenplay
Rue de l'estrapade 1953
Director
Casque d'Or 1952
Director, Screenplay, Adaptation, Dialogue
Edward and Caroline 1951
Director, Writer
On the Set of 'Casque D'Or' 1951
as Self (Archive Footage)
Rendezvous in July 1949
Writer, Director
Antoine & Antoinette 1947
Director, Writer
A Day in the Country 1946
as Seminarian (uncredited), First Assistant Director
Paris Frills 1945
Director, Writer
It Happened at the Inn 1943
Director, Adaptation
The Trump Card 1942
Director
Cristobal's Gold 1940
Director
The Great Hope 1937
Director
Grand Illusion 1937
as British Officer (uncredited), First Assistant Director
Life Is Ours 1936
as Le jeune chômeur, Director, Writer
Pitiless Gendarme 1935
as Un Saint-Cyrien, Director, Screenplay
Chotard and Co. 1933
as Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited)
Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932
as Le Poète (uncredited), Assistant Director
Night at the Crossroads 1932
Assistant Director, Production Manager
Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique 1931
Assistant Director
Le Bled 1929
as Un ouvrier agricole
Credits from TMDB.