Director
Jean-Pierre Melville
October 20, 1917 · Paris, France
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.
Notable work
7.5Breathless (1960)
as Parvulesco the Writer
7.8Le Samouraï (1967)
Director
7.9Army of Shadows (1969)
Director
7.6Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Director and Writer
7.4Le Doulos (1962)
Director
7.3Bob le Flambeur (1956)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited) and Director and Writer
7.6Orpheus (1950)
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
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