Jean-Pierre Melville
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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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Breathless (1960)
as Parvulesco the Writer
Orpheus (1950)
as Hotel Manager (uncredited)
Bluebeard (1963)
as Clemenceau's Aide
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible (2022)
Actor
Sign of the Lion (1962)
as Un Consommateur (uncredited)
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946)
as Narrator (uncredited)
Le Combat dans l'île (1962)
as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
Code Name: Melville (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo, le magnifique (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Two Men in Manhattan (1959)
as Moreau
A Girl in a Pocket (1957)
as Commissioner
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
as Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Les Rois de la comédie (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
as Self - Interviewee
Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses (1971)
as Himself
Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Melville, le dernier samouraï (2020)
as (archives)