Jacques Becker

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Le Trou (1960) — Director
2. Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) — Director
3. Casque d'Or (1952) — Director
4. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954) — Director
5. The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958) — Director
6. Antoine & Antoinette (1947) — Director
7. It Happened at the Inn (1943) — Director
8. The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957) — Director
9. Edward and Caroline (1951) — Director
10. Paris Frills (1945) — Director
11. Rendezvous in July (1949) — Director
12. Life Is Ours (1936) — Director
13. The Trump Card (1942) — Director
14. Rue de l'estrapade (1953) — Director
15. Pitiless Gendarme (1935) — Director
16. Cristobal's Gold (1940) — Director
17. The Great Hope (1937) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Grand Illusion (1937) — British Officer (uncredited)
2. A Day in the Country (1946) — Seminarian (uncredited)
3. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) — Le Poète (uncredited)
4. The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957) — The crown prince
5. Life Is Ours (1936) — Le jeune chômeur
6. Le Bled (1929) — Un ouvrier agricole
7. Chotard and Co. (1933) — Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited)
8. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
9. Pitiless Gendarme (1935) — Un Saint-Cyrien
10. Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker (1967) — Self (archive footage)
11. Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (1978) — Self (archive footage)
12. On the Set of 'Casque D'Or' (1951) — Self (Archive Footage)