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Henri Verneuil was born on 15 October 1920 in Rodosto, Ottoman Empire [now Tekirdag, Turkey]. He was a director and writer, known for I... For Icarus (1979), The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) and Mother (1991). He was married to Françoise Bonnot and Véronique Sedro. He died on 11 January 2002 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- April Kent was born on 2 April 1935 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) and Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956). She died on 28 December 1998 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Actor
One of the most popular singers of French songs. After a childhood full of boredom and normality, Brel started to work in his father's cardboard factory. But he wanted a different kind of life. He had been writing songs all his life and in the early 1950s he went to Paris. After a few years he became hugely successful. His songs include 'Amsterdam', 'La Valse a Mille Temps', 'Vesoul' and 'Au Suivant'. He was covered by, among many others, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones and David Bowie.
His songs have been translated in many different languages. In 1966, when he was more successful than ever, he quit performing on stage. Instead, he became an actor in musicals and films. He also directed two films. In the 1970s, he became a sailor and tried to sail around the world. He ended up at the Marquesas Islands in 1976. In 1973 Brel discovered that he had lung cancer. The illness took his life in 1978.
He was married to Thérèse 'Miche' Michielsen and had three daughters: Chantal, France and Isabelle. His last mistress was called Maddly Bamy, sister of Erick Bamy aka Erick Stevens.- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Gaston Modot was born on 31 December 1887 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Grand Illusion (1937), The Rules of the Game (1939) and Children of Paradise (1945). He died on 19 February 1970 in Le Raincy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Roger Carel was born on 14 August 1927 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (1976), Les 1001 nuits (1990) and Asterix the Gaul (1967). He died on 11 September 2020 in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- François Maistre was born on 14 May 1925 in Demigny, Saône-et-Loire, France. He was an actor, known for The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Belle de Jour (1967) and Les brigades du Tigre (1974). He was married to Aurore Chabrol and Anne-Marie Coffinet. He died on 16 May 2016 in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Philippe Volter was born on 23 March 1959 in Uccle, Belgium. He was an actor, known for The Double Life of Véronique (1991), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Three Colors: Blue (1993). He died on 13 April 2005 in Neuilly-sur-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Born in Guadaloupe in 1939, Serge Nubret moved to Paris in the 1950s and discovered bodybuilding. Nubret has won the titles Mr. Europe (1966), Mr. Universe (1976), and Mr. World (1977). He also came in third place in the 1973 Mr. Olympia competition and came in second in 1975, bested only by Arnold Schwarzenegger. In addition, Nubret was once the Europe Director of the International Federation of Body Building. In addition to his athletic accomplishments, Serge Nubret also acted in several films in the 1960s.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Roger Coggio was born on 11 March 1934 in Lyon, Rhône, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Les fourberies de Scapin (1981), The bourgeois gentleman (1982) and Le journal d'un fou (1987). He was married to Pascale Audret. He died on 22 October 2001 in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Tommy Lefort was born on 30 January 1990 in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was an actor and director, known for Nocturnes (2015), Venise sous la neige (2016) and Nathalie (2014). He died on 16 September 2023 in Le Bourget, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Soundtrack
François Perrot was born on 26 February 1924 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Clean Slate (1981), The Avignon Prophecy (2007) and Les fiancées de l'empire (1981). He died on 20 January 2019 in Livry-Gargan, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sarah Maldoror is the author of some forty films making up a multiple and rebellious work, made of fiction, documentary and poetry, and interpreted by a war song: the short film Monangambée, shot in 1969 in Algiers where she was then living, which evokes the torture by the Portuguese colonial army of a sympathizer of the struggle for the liberation of Angola, visited in prison by his company.
Before becoming a pioneer of pan-African cinema, Sarah Maldoror lived part of her youth in Paris where, passionate about theater and received at the school in rue Blanche (according to her friend, the future Ivorian filmmaker Timité Bassori, they are among the first black students to enter), she co-founded in 1956 with the same Bassori, Toto Bissainthe, Ababacar Samb Makharam and Robert Liensol the company Les Griots, which became the first black theater company in France. The Tragedy of King Christophe by Aimé Césaire and Les Nègres by Jean Genet (directed by Roger Blin) are among the plays created by the troupe, which Maldoror presides for a time, with the material help and intellectual support of Alioune Diop, founder in 1947 of the important Parisian anti-colonialist review Présence africaine.
In 1961, Sarah Maldoror left France and went to study at the VGIK, the Moscow film school, before joining the African decolonization movements (in Algeria, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau) with her companion Mario Pinto de Andrade, whom he met in Paris and co-founder of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola, in exile during the war of independence (1961-1975) against the Portuguese metropolis.
It was in Algiers, where she settled in 1966, that she made her debut on the cinematographic front of the anti-colonial struggles: assistant on the Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966) and Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969, documentary by William Klein, she quickly made her first film, followed by a lost film shot in Guinea-Bissau and a first "fiction" feature film, Sambizanga (1972). Filmed in the Republic of Congo, based on an Angolan novel by José Luandino Vieira, adapted by his companion Pinto de Andrade with the French writer Maurice Pons, Sambizanga takes place in 1961 and describes the repression of the Angolan Liberation Movement from point of view of Maria, wife of a revolutionary activist imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese army, who sets out to find him across the country. Shot with real actors from the struggle then in progress, and one of the first African films directed by a woman in the history of cinema, Sambizanga remains seen and visible today - it is easily found on the Internet.
Leaving Algeria following a disagreement with the hierarchy of the FLN in power (some sources mention that she was imprisoned and then expelled from the country), Sarah Maldoror settled in France, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis ), and continues to make films. His work includes documentaries (shot in Seine-Saint-Denis, Martinique, Guyana or Cape Verde for Fogo, the island of fire in 1978) and numerous portraits of artists and writers (the poets Léon Gontran-Damas, Aimé Césaire, Assia Djebar, René Depestre or Louis Aragon, singer Toto Bissainthe, musician Archie Shepp). Visible on the site of the CNRS video library, a 1974 short film, And the Dogs Are Silenced, shot in the reserves of the Musée de l'homme dedicated to objects from black Africa, adapted from extracts from the play of the same name by Aimé Césaire, with the actor Gabriel Glissant (seen in Soleil O du grand Med Hondo) and the filmmaker herself in the role of the revolutionary's mother, dressed in an ironic white scientific coat. But if there is a science of revolt, Sarah Madoror will have written, shot, played and some of the greatest pages. We hear more than twice, everywhere behind the scenes of the Musée de l'Homme, the sound of fire.
She died in April 2020 as a result of Covid-19. In November 2021, "Sarah Maldoror, Cinéma Tricontinental" presented by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, is a retrospective of her work, her life and her political commitment. The exhibition extends to the Musée de l'Homme, the Museum of the History of Immigration and the Museum of Art and History Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Paul Grimault was born on 23 March 1905 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1952), The King and the Mockingbird (1980) and The Little Soldier (1948). He died on 29 March 1994 in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, Yvelines, France.- Actress
- Director
Anna Gaylor was born on 13 May 1932 in Paris, France. She was an actress and director, known for The Visitors (1993), A Room in Town (1982) and Les lionceaux (1960). She was married to Alain Jessua. She died on 21 September 2021 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Ernest Maupain was born on 1 October 1869 in Évreux, Eure, France. He was an actor, known for Sherlock Holmes (1916), Monte Cristo (1929) and Miracle of the Wolves (1924). He died on 25 October 1944 in Neuilly-Plaisance, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Director
Raymond Gérôme was born on 17 May 1920 in Koekelberg, Belgium. He was an actor and director, known for The Day of the Jackal (1973), Le Magnifique (1973) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). He died on 3 February 2002 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Special Effects
- Stunts
Gil Delamare was born on 14 October 1924 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for That Man from Rio (1964), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966) and Fantomas (1964). He died on 30 May 1966 in Bobigny, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France.- Actor
- Writer
Jean Luisi was born on 8 September 1926 in Santa-Maria-di-Lota, Corse, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Riff Raff Girls (1959). He died on 18 July 2006 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Henri Poirier was born on 21 March 1932 in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for Il pleut sur Santiago (1975), Paris Belongs to Us (1961) and Bernadette (1988). He died on 8 February 2005 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Maurice Baquet is a multi-talented man: gifted cellist (1st prize at the Conservatoire de Paris), Skier (member of the 1936 French Olympic Team), mountain climber(this talent used in several movies, including 'Premier de Cordée'). He attracted poet 'Jacques Prevet''s attention when riding on his bicycle, holding his cello, and soon joigned Prevert's famed theather Octobre group. Movies followed rapidly, and he became a favorite of the French public.
He has been active in several fields, outside of movies: a one-man show, music-hall, operettas (most of them with Luis Mariano; one of them was filmed - Andalousie (1951). He appeared on Broadway ('My aunt's feather', with Liliane Montevecchi), and on the London stage. A great friend of famed photographer Robert Doineau, he wrote "Ballade pour violoncelle et chambre noire" adorned with magnificent photos of himself by Doisneau.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Mario Ruspoli was born on 17 June 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for La chavalanthrope (1972), La rencontre (1967) and In vino veritas (1964). He was married to Dolorès Grassian, Dominique Rivolier and Claude Delmas. He died on 13 June 1986 in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Claude Barma was born on 3 November 1918 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was a producer and director, known for Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967), Les corsaires (1966) and En votre âme et conscience (1955). He died on 30 August 1992 in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Writer
André Thorent was born on 28 May 1922 in Salies-du-Salat, Haute-Garonne, France. He was an actor and writer, known for The Samurai (1967), Madame Bovary (1991) and Paris Belongs to Us (1961). He died on 27 March 2015 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- François-Xavier Phan was born on 19 September 1984 in Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for OVNI(s) (2021), Naked (2018) and Terrible Jungle (2020). He died on 8 December 2022 in Bobigny, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Soundtrack
Michel Vaucaire was born on 3 August 1904 in Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland. Michel was married to Cora Vaucaire and Isabel de Selva. Michel died on 18 June 1980 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Dany Jacquet was born on 28 December 1940 in Chauny, Aisne, France. She was an actress, known for Le choc (1982), Les granges brûlées (1973) and La tête du client (1965). She died on 29 September 1993 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Mabô Kouyaté was born on 1 September 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. He was an actor, known for Anna (2019), Child of the Sun (2014) and Moi César, 10 ans 1/2, 1m39 (2003). He died on 3 April 2019 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Sylvain Chamarande was born on 20 February 1954 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Au théâtre ce soir (1966), Embraye bidasse... ça fume (1978) and Les bidasses au pensionnat (1978). He died on 10 November 2021 in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Alexandre Chatrian was born on 18 December 1826 in Abreschviller, Moselle, France. He was a writer, known for The Bells (1918), Polish Jew (1931) and The Death-Bell (1917). He died on 3 September 1890 in Villemomble, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Rudy Lenoir was born on 20 April 1913 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]. He was an actor, known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), Fantomas (1964) and À rebrousse-poil (1961). He died on 23 November 1995 in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Special Effects
- Additional Crew
Sara Helmlinger was born on 30 June 1962 in Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France. She is known for Taken (2008), The Transporter (2002) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1998). She died on 2 July 2023 in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Writer
- Production Manager
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Claude Heymann was born on 13 November 1907 in Paris, France. He was a writer and production manager, known for Victor (1951), Aux frontières du possible (1971) and Adieu Paris (1952). He died on 13 April 1994 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
René Dorin was born on 13 November 1892 in La Rochelle, Charente-Inférieure [now Charente-Maritime], France. He was an actor and writer, known for Un coup de rouge (1937), L'amant de Bornéo (1942) and Quatre à Troyes (1934). He died on 25 July 1969 in Noisy-le-Grand, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actress
- Composer
Angélique Ionatos was born on 22 June 1954 in Athens, Greece. She was an actress and composer, known for Selon Rachel (2005), Stolen Life (1998) and L'héritage de la chouette (1990). She died on 7 July 2021 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Michel Bernholc was born on 10 July 1941 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Tous vedettes! (1980), The Sweeney (1975) and Michi (1986). He died on 5 June 2002 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Actor
- Additional Crew
André Reybaz was born on 29 October 1929 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Le trompette de la Bérésina (1966), Molière pour rire et pour pleurer (1973) and Mazarin (1978). He died on 7 April 1989 in Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Pierre Degeyter was born on 8 October 1848 in Gent, Flanders, Belgium. He is known for Air Force One (1997), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997). He died on 27 September 1932 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Jean-Daniel Simon was born on 30 November 1942 in Salons-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a director and writer, known for Adelaide (1968), Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé (1974) and Ils (1970). He was married to Sylvie Fennec. He died on 3 February 2021 in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Rachid Taha was born on 18 September 1958 in Sig, Oran, Algeria. He was a composer and actor, known for Lionheart (1990), The Hunting Party (2007) and Black Hawk Down (2001). He died on 12 September 2018 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, île-de-France, France.- Ernest Ferny was born on 17 December 1886 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Le tombeau hindou (1938), Le tigre du Bengale (1938) and One Hour with You (1932). He died on 28 May 1939 in Neuilly-Plaisance, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Louis Maïss was born on 17 August 1899 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Le Grand Amour (1969), Farewell Mister Grock (1950) and Présence du passé (1965). He died on 28 August 1976 in Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Alex Lamarque was born on 13 February 1964 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Alex was a cinematographer, known for The Da Vinci Code (2006), Arthur and the Invisibles (2006) and Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004). Alex died on 15 September 2022 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Pierre Charras was born on 19 March 1945 in Saint-Etienne, Loire, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Au théâtre ce soir (1966), Charles and Lucie (1979) and Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983). He died on 19 January 2014 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Joseph Reinhardt was born on 1 March 1912 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for My Pal the Gypsy (1959), Ontdek de ster (1955) and Jazz Hot (1938). He was married to Marie Wess. He died on 24 February 1982 in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Max Desrau was born on 21 March 1918 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. He was an actor, known for Aux frontières du possible (1971), To Kill a Cop (1981) and Le Magnifique (1973). He died on 29 September 2001 in Noisy-Le-Sec, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Jacques Roussillon was born on 28 August 1929 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Les copains du dimanche (1958), En votre âme et conscience (1955) and Allô police (1966). He died on 13 August 2009 in Sevran, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Michel Nastorg was born on 2 October 1914 in Saint-Martin-de-Lamps, Indre, France. He was an actor, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1946), On sort ce soir (1982) and Cet homme est dangereux (1953). He died on 9 June 1984 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Pierre Duncan was born on 1 July 1910 in Lisieux, Calvados, France. He was an actor, known for Les dossiers de Jérôme Randax (1965), L'homme qui revient de loin (1950) and Le voyageur des siècles (1971). He died on 26 May 2003 in Rosny-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
- Sound Department
- Additional Crew
Julien Coutelier was born on 8 January 1911 in Paris, France. He is known for Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), The Informer (1962) and License to Kill (1964). He died on 25 September 1997 in Livry-Gargan, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Léo Daniderff was born on 15 February 1878 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France. Léo was a composer, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), Se souvenir des belles choses (2001) and Le roi du camembert (1931). Léo was married to Léona Gabriel and Lucie Mortreuil. Léo died on 24 October 1943 in Rosny, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France.