Léonide Moguy

Biography

Léonide Moguy (14 July 1899 – 21 April 1976) was a Ukrainian, French and Italian film director, screenwriter and film editor. Moguy was born Leonid Mohylevskyi (Леонід Могилевський) in Odesa, Russian Empire in 1899 in a Jewish family. He lived in Soviet Ukraine until 1929, in the United States in the 1940s, and in Italy from 1949 until his death. He was active in film between 1927 and 1961. His work has influenced American director Quentin Tarantino, who discovered him while writing the script for Inglourious Basterds, and named a character after him in Django Unchained. Mohylevskyi was born in Odesa in a family of a merchandise worker. During World War I, he was a soldier of the 51st Lithuanian infantry regiment of the Imperial Russian Army in Simferopol. After the war, he was a medical student and worked part-time at the film studio of Dmytro Kharytonov who came from Moscow to Odesa. Mohylevskyi did not become a doctor, however, graduating from Odesa Institute of National Economy in 1924, he became a lawyer. Soon, he was invited to work as a VUFKU legal advisor at Odesa Film Studio. Mohylevskyi showed interest not only in the letter of the law, but also in laws and principles …

Directed

1. Whistle Stop (1946) — Director
2. Action in Arabia (1944) — Director
3. The Deserter (1939) — Director
4. Give Me My Chance (1957) — Director
5. Bethsabée (1947) — Director
6. Paris After Dark (1943) — Director
7. Prison Without Bars (1938) — Director
8. Tomorrow Is Too Late (1950) — Director
9. Conflit (1938) — Director
10. Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951) — Director
11. Forty Little Mothers (1936) — Director
12. Children of Love (1953) — Director
13. Diary of a Bad Girl (1956) — Director
14. Two Women (1940) — Director
15. Man Wants to Live (1961) — Director
16. Documents of the Era (1928) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self