Richard Pottier

Biography

Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch. Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last…

Directed

1. David and Goliath (1960) — Director
2. The Singer from Mexico (1957) — Director
3. Dear Caroline (1951) — Director
4. Three Sinners (1950) — Director
5. Romulus and the Sabines (1961) — Director
6. Imperial Violets (1952) — Director
7. Majestic Hotel Cellars (1945) — Director
8. Picpus (1943) — Director
9. The Wolf Farm (1943) — Director
10. A Rare Bird (1935) — Director
11. Fanfare of Love (1935) — Director
12. Three Feet in a Bed (1950) — Director
13. Serenade of Texas (1958) — Director
14. Si j'étais le patron (1934) — Director
15. The World Will Shake (1939) — Director
16. 27, rue de la Paix (1936) — Director
17. The Rebels of Lomanach (1954) — Director
18. The Case Against X (1952) — Director
19. Lights of Paris (1938) — Director
20. The Lebanese Mission (1956) — Director
21. Adventure Starts Tomorrow (1948) — Director
22. Rendezvous in Grenada (1951) — Director
23. The Beautiful Otero (1954) — Director
24. Mademoiselle Swing (1942) — Director
25. Forbidden to Love (1942) — Director
26. Tabarin (1958) — Director
27. Eight Men in a Castle (1942) — Director
28. Barry (1949) — Director
29. Guilty Melody (1936) — Director
30. My Love is Near You (1943) — Director
31. Vertiges (1947) — Director
32. Two Loves (1949) — Director
33. The Secrets of the Red Sea (1937) — Director
34. Disk 413 (1936) — Director
35. The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic (1946) — Director
36. Destiny (1946) — Director
37. La Nuit blanche (1948) — Director
38. Dernier tiercé (1965) — Director