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Louis Daquin

Louis Daquin

Director · Born 1908-05-30 · Calais, France

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Biography

Louis Daquin is a French director and screenwriter, born May 30, 19081 in Calais and died October 2, 1980 in Paris, in a family of small traders. Law graduate and graduate of HEC, after having been a journalist, advertising editor at the Renault factories, and having tried his hand at theatrical writing, Louis Daquin, Louis Léon Auguste Daquin of his full name, became assistant director in 1932, he worked notably with Fedor Ozep, Pierre Chenal, Julien Duvivier, Abel Gance and especially Jean Grémillon. He produced his first film in 1938 with the French version of Gerhard Lamprecht's film Le Joueur. He made several feature films during the Occupation, while he was engaged in the Resistance with the French Communist Party, on whose behalf he shot a short film after the Liberation. He also wrote in 1941 a detective novel, The Enigma of Pelham, under the pseudonym of Lewis MacDakin. He held several positions during his career: secretary general of the Committee for the Liberation of Cinema in 1944, co-founder of the General Cooperative of French Cinema, secretary general of the CGT Film Production Technicians Syndicate from 1945 to 1962, and president of the Société des Réalisateurs d…

Directed

  1. The Mark of the Day (1949) — Director
  2. Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943) — Director
  3. The Thistles of The Bărăgan (1959) — Director
  4. First in Line (1944) — Director
  5. Portrait of Innocence (1941) — Director
  6. Bel Ami (1955) — Director
  7. The Opportunists (1960) — Director
  8. The Blockhead Fair (1963) — Director
  9. Homeland (1946) — Director
  10. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949) — Director
  11. The Bouquinquant Brothers (1948) — Director
  12. Skipper Next to God (1951) — Director
  13. Le Joueur (1938) — Director
  14. Madame et le mort (1943) — Director
  15. La Bataille de la vie (1949) — Director
  16. La Grande lutte des mineurs (1948) — Director
  17. Nous continuons la France (1946) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. The Man from Nowhere (1937) — le concierge de l'hôtel
  2. The Mark of the Day (1949) — Miner (uncredited)
  3. Adieu Léonard (1943) — (uncredited)
  4. Le Parti du cinéma (2021) — Self (voice) (archive footage)
  5. Paris mange son pain (1958) — Self
  6. Autour d'un Film de Montagne (1944) — Self
  7. L'Agression (1973) — Viel homme
  8. Léa in Winter (1971)
  9. Ciné regards (1978) — Self