André Delvaux

Biography

André Albert Auguste Delvaux (21 March 1926 – 4 October 2002) was a Belgian film director. He co-founded the film school INSAS in 1962 and is regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Adapting works by writers such as Johan Daisne, Julien Gracq and Marguerite Yourcenar, he received international attention for directing magic realist films. Delvaux received the Louis Delluc Prize for Rendezvous at Bray (1971) and the André Cavens Award for Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979) and The Abyss (1988). The king of Belgium made him a baron in 1996. The Académie André Delvaux is named after him and he posthumously received the first Honorary Magritte Award in 2011. André Albert Auguste Delvaux was born in Heverlee, Belgium, on 21 March 1926. He studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and worked as a silent film pianist at the Belgian cinématheque in his early 20s. He studied law and took a degree in German philology at the Free University of Brussels, after which he worked as a teacher. Delvaux's filmmaking career started in 1954 when he began to make television documentaries about film directors for the broadcaster RTB. Notably, he made a four-part series about F…

Directed

1. The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short (1966) — Director
2. One Night... a Train (1968) — Director
3. Appointment in Bray (1971) — Director
4. The Abyss (1988) — Director
5. Belle (1973) — Director
6. Benvenuta (1983) — Director
7. Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979) — Director
8. 1001 Films (1989) — Director
9. Met Dieric Bouts (1975) — Director
10. To Woody Allen from Europe with Love (1980) — Director
11. Babel opéra, ou la répétition de Don Juan de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1985) — Director
12. Schooldays (1962) — Director
13. Behind the Screen (1966) — Director
14. Fellini on “Second Look” (1960) — Director
15. The brass band is a 100 years old (1986) — Director
16. Behind the screens : Les demoiselles de Rochefort (1966) — Director
17. Behind the screens : Jacques Demy’s Les demoiselles de Rochefort - Les décors (1966) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Between Heaven and Earth (1992) — Le professeur
2. To Woody Allen from Europe with Love (1980) — Self
3. De droomproducenten (1984) — Self
4. Janssen & Janssens draaien een film (1990) — Self
5. Midi trente (1972) — Self
6. Zénon the Rebel (2019) — Self (archive footage)
7. Mag Bodard, un destin (2005) — Self (archive footage)
8. Antoine Bonfanti, sonic traces of an engaged listening (2002) — Self
9. André Delvaux directs Benvenuta (1983) — Self
10. Ciné regards (1978) — Self