Jean-Pierre Melville

Diretor

1917-10-20 – 1973-08-02 · Paris, France

Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).

Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.

His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."

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• Acossado (1960) — Parvulesco the Writer
• Ghost Dog: Matador Implacável (1999) — Thanks
• O Samurai (1967) — Director, Screenplay
• O Exército das Sombras (1969) — Director, Screenplay
• O Círculo Vermelho (1970) — Director, Editor, Writer
• Técnica de Um Delator (1962) — Director, Screenplay
• Orfeu (1950) — Hotel Manager (uncredited)
• Bob, o Jogador (1956) — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• Expresso Para Bordeaux (1972) — Director, Writer
• Os Profissionais do Crime (1966) — Writer, Director
• Léon Morin - O Padre (1961) — Director, Writer
• Lance de Sorte (2003) — Original Film Writer
• O Silêncio do Mar (1949) — Director, Adaptation, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Editor
• Les Enfants terribles (1950) — Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
• Dois Homens em Manhattan (1959) — Moreau, Director, Writer
• Um Homem de Confiança (1963) — Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
• A Verdadeira História do Barba Azul (1963) — Clemenceau's Aide
• O Signo do Leão (1962) — Un Consommateur (uncredited)
• Le Combat dans l'île (1962) — Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
• 24 Horas na Vida de um Palhaço (1946) — Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer, Screenplay
• Quando Leres Esta Carta (1953) — Director, Producer
• Belmondo l'incorrigible (2022)
• Amour de poche (1957) — Commissioner
• Melville, le dernier samouraï (2020) — (archives)