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Born February 6, 1932 • Paris • France
Died October 21, 1984 (aged 52) • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France
Notable Works “A Story of Water” • “Bed and Board” • “Day for Night” • “Fahrenheit 451” • “Jules and Jim” • “Shoot the Piano Player” • “Stolen Kisses” • “The 400 Blows” • “The Last Metro” • “The Mischief Makers” • “Two English Girls”
Movement / Style New Wave

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filming of La Sirène du Mississipi
scene from Les Quatre Cents Coups
Jean-Pierre Léaud and Claude Jade in Baisers volés
Oskar Werner and Jeanne Moreau in Jules et Jim
Cyril Cusack and Oskar Werner in Fahrenheit 451
Le Dernier Métro
François Truffaut: Day for Night
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Chabrol, Claude
Claude Chabrol
French director
Marcel Paul Pagnol
French author and director
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
French filmmaker
Abel Gance
Abel Gance
French director
Jouvet
Louis Jouvet
French actor and director
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais
French film director
filming of Damage
Louis Malle
French director
Jesse Lasky
American producer
Joy Batchelor
British director and animator
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
American director
Huston, John; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
William Wyler
William Wyler
American director
filming of Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks
American director
Billy Wilder
Billy Wilder
American director and producer
Francis Ford Coppola directing The Godfather: Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
American director and screenwriter
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick
American director