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- Actor
- Writer
Francis Girod was born on 9 October 1944 in Semblançay, Indre-et-Loire, France. He was a director and actor, known for Le bon plaisir (1984), Transfixed (2001) and The Infernal Trio (1974). He died on 19 November 2006 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Jean-Yves Chatelais was born on 7 March 1953 in Caudéran, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Coco Before Chanel (2009), The Squad (2000) and Les Montana (2004). He died on 31 July 2018 in Bordeaux, France.
- Pierre-Alexis Ponson du Terrail was born on 8 July 1829 in Montmaur, Hautes-Alpes, France. He was a writer, known for Rocambole contra las mujeres arpías (1967), Rocambole contra la secta del escorpión (1967) and Rocambole (1963). He died on 10 January 1871 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Henri Delannoy was born on 14 October 1873 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Yser (1925) and Verdun: Looking at History (1928). He died in 1976 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Animation Department
- Writer
- Director
Jean Cayrol was born on 6 June 1911 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a writer and director, known for Le coup de grâce (1965), On vous parle (1960) and Madame se meurt (1961). He was married to Jeanette Durand. He died on 10 February 2005 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Maurice Cloche was born on 17 June 1907 in Commercy, Meuse, France. He was a director and writer, known for L'invité de la onzième heure (1945), Monsieur Vincent (1947) and La cage aux filles (1949). He died on 20 March 1990 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Emile Couzinet (b. 1896)was the owner of several movie theaters in the south west of France ..He had an idea which was (and to this day remained) unique:he made his own movies which were shown in his theaters .He did not care about what Parisian critics thought.The only man of the French cinema who was a writer,a director,a producer ,a film distributor, a cinema owner and manager;he had his own studios and ,like Ed Wood in America ,he often used the same actors ,particularly Jean Tissier and Jeanne Fusier-Gir . His output is hopeless.Coarse comedies abound in his huge filmography:"Le Don D'Adele (1950)told the unspeakable story of a farm girl,almost excommunicated by the local priest."Le Curé De Saint-Amour" (1952) was the tale of a priest who helped the lovers ,provided they did not sin before the wedding."Quand Te Tues-Tu?" (1953) a remake of a thirties comedy ,dealt with the problems of a bourgeois ,who could get a rich inheritance ,but he had to marry a widow or the money would go to a brass band ."La Famille Cucuroux(1953) featured broke aristocrats ,a leopard and an American Indian cousin."Mon Curé Champion Du régiment'(1955)found him going out at a peak of unbelievably corny stuff:a priest ,armed up with a breviary and an umbrella became a military boxing champ.His titles spoke for themselves .His last effort "Le Medecin Malgré Lui" (1962) was high culture: Molière's play!.Couzinet died in 1964,his works have become French guiltiest pleasure,so to speak.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Daniel Clérice was born on 23 October 1912 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Miquette (1940), Palace of Shame (1954) and Vidocq (1939). He died on 10 March 1990 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Rafael Padilla was born sometime 1865 in Cuba, in Havana, without a surname. According to historian Gérard Noiriel, "Padilla" may have the matronymic of his former Spanish master's wife. His parents were slaves in a Cuban plantation from which they escaped in 1878, leaving their son to a poor black woman who raised him in the slums of Havana. When Rafael was still a boy, she sold him to a Spanish businessman named Patricio Castaño Capetillo for 18 ounces of gold. Castaño brought Rafael to his family's household in the village of Sopuerta in northern Spain. Cuba had banned the slave trade in 1862, and under international law Rafael technically ceased to be a slave at all the moment he set foot on European soil, but nonetheless the Castaños treated him like one. At around the age of 14 or 15, Rafael fled the Castaños and worked in the quarries of the Basque Country, then moved to Bilbao where he worked odd jobs. There he met Tony Grice, a travelling English clown, who hired him as an assistant and domestic servant. Grice would occasionally incorporate Rafael into his acts, such as in his parodies of American minstrel shows. The new duo would go on to public notoriety when they began performing with the Nouveau Cirque of Joseph Oller in Paris during October 1886. Rafael's stage name of Chocolat was given to him at this time by Grice. In 1888, their partnership was ended when Henri Agoust, the manager of the Nouveau Cirque, hired Chocolat as the star of a nautical pantomime. He saw Chocolat as a potential star dancer and mime, and was proven correct when his first show, "The Wedding of Chocolat" was a huge success. In 1895, Raoul Donval, director of the Nouveau Cirque, formed a new duo, teaming Chocolat with a British clown, George Foottit. The two performed together for twenty years, popularizing clown comedy, especially with the burlesque sketch William Tell. Their joint career reached its peak until they were considered old fashioned with the arrival of a generation of American black artists bringing the cake walk to the stages of Europe. Foottit and Chocolat split up in 1910, when Andre Antoine, director of the Odeon, hired Foottit to play the role of the Clown in Romeo and Juliet. In 1911 he performed at the Cirque de Paris in the Revue burlesque, and in 1912 Tablette et Chocolat with his adoptive son Eugène Grimaldi, but he suffered a breakdown after the death of his 19 year old daughter caused by tuberculosis. Padilla died on 4 November 1917 during a tour of the Cirque Raincy in Bordeaux. His body rests at the Protestant cemetery in Bordeaux.
- Actress
Julie Laird was born on 17 November 1910 in Montana, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Charles Busch Reisinger, A. Coster Schermerhorn and Jack Kirkland. She died on 10 July 1953 in Bordeaux, France.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jacques R. Villa's first film Wild Roots of Love (1960), a dark tale involving four little girls, may have been ahead of its time. Whatever the case my be, the censors disliked the idea of three "innocent" lasses trying to drown a fourth one. As a result, the movie was purely and simply banned just after being released in 1959. When it was finally authorized five years after it was too late, it flopped at the box office. Nowadays it remains largely unseen and unjustly forgotten, despite featuring Catherine Deneuve in her first major role at age 16. Villa was born in 1927 in Soulac-sur-Mer to an army officer father. The place where he studied was a Jesuit college, reputed the severest in France. At 15, not putting up with the strict discipline of the place, he ran away to Paris, where he was hired as a jazz musician. But this was only an enchanted interlude as, after a time, he was brought back home by his family. At last an adult, he could finally fend for himself and started working for French television, first in Morocco, then in Paris where he became the assistant of François Chalais, whose programs about cinema were very popular. It is during this period that Jacques Villa wrote a Christmas tale that would later be the basis of Wild Roots of Love (1960).- Francisco Goya was born on March 30, 1746 in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain as Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. He was an actor, known for Romantic Versus Classical Art (1973) and Five Revolutionary Painters (1959). He was a painter of the Romantic era and died of a stroke on April 16, 1828 in Bordeaux, France. Other painters of the Romantic era include John Constable, William Blake and Caspar David Friedrich.
- Michel Waxman was born on 6 September 1937 in Etterbeek, Belgium. He was an actor, known for Mama Dracula (1980), Le FN n'est pas d'extrême droite (2013) and Un dernier doigt d'honneur au cimetière de Montmartre (2016). He died on 26 May 2018 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Gérard Boireau was born on 10 July 1919 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Trois de la Canebière (1955). He died on 18 March 2004 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Producer
- Production Manager
François-Pierre Clavel was born on 14 September 1975 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. François-Pierre was a producer and production manager, known for Hunted (2020), The Forbidden Room (2015) and Villette Sonique (2015). François-Pierre died on 2 November 2023 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Raymond Paquet was born on 8 June 1923 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Les fiancées de l'empire (1981), Au gui l'an neuf (1982) and Le médecin malgré lui (1962). He was married to Dominique Sandrel. He died on 13 October 1996 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Nebojsa Veljovic was born on 21 November 1952 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Dani AVNOJ-a (1983), The Awkward Age (1994) and Brisani prostor (1985). He died on 18 October 2010 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Valérie Paillard was born on 13 January 1981 in Lomme, Nord, France. Valérie was a producer and assistant director, known for Tomorrow Is Ours (2017), Full Speed (2016) and A Perfect Man (2015). Valérie died on 30 July 2022 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Thierry Metz was born on 10 June 1956 in Paris, France. Thierry was a writer, known for L'homme qui penche (2020). Thierry died on 16 April 1997 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
José Noguéro was born on 10 March 1905 in Bordeaux, France. He was an actor, known for Mandrin (1947), L'Arlésienne (1930) and Yamilé sous les cèdres (1939). He died on 11 March 1993 in Bordeaux, France.- Madeleine Fromet was born on 21 February 1900 in Chauny, Aisne, France. She was an actress, known for Les deux gosses (1916), La grève des forgerons (1910) and Athallah (1911). She was married to Raymond Cordy. She died on 4 April 1983 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Paulette Merval was born on 3 November 1920 in La Roche Chalais, Dordogne, France. She was an actress, known for Trois de la marine (1957), La joie de vivre (1952) and Tilt (1966). She was married to Marcel Merkès. She died on 21 June 2009 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Michel Suffran was born on 1 November 1931 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a writer, known for Cinéma 16 (1975), Messieurs les jurés (1974) and De avond valt (1962). He died on 5 July 2018 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Madame Bartet was born on 9 October 1876 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for The Return of Ulysses (1909), Vendetta (1914) and Sadounah (1915). She died on 26 October 1949 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Cizia Zykë was born on 25 February 1949 in Taroudant, Morocco. He died on 26 September 2011 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Francisco Goya was born on 30 March 1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain. He was a composer, known for Only Up! (2023) and Bir Resim Bir Hikaye (2019). He died on 16 April 1828 in Bordeaux, France.
- Uwe Nettelbeck was born on 7 August 1940 in Mannheim, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Damm (1965), Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (1978) and ...Geist und ein wenig Glück (1965). He was married to Petra Nettelbeck. He died on 17 January 2007 in Bordeaux, France.
- Tichadel was born on 28 June 1901 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Les rois de la flotte (1938), Deux de la réserve (1938) and Ici l'on pêche (1941). He died on 11 December 1944 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Guy Belmore was born on 17 June 1897 in Pancras, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Murder by Rope (1936), Secret Flight (1946) and ITV Television Playhouse (1955). He died on 22 October 1980 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Philippe Constantin died on 3 January 1996 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Composer
- Music Department
Pierre Capdevielle was born on 1 February 1906 in Paris, France. He was a composer, known for Just a Big Simple Girl (1948), Par dix-huit mètres de fond (1943) and Épaves (1946). He was married to Denise Allard. He died on 9 July 1969 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Gérard Boulanger was born on 14 October 1948 in Saint-Pair-sur-Mer, Manche, France. Gérard was a writer, known for La case de l'oncle Doc (1997). Gérard died on 8 June 2018 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Allan Kardec was born on 3 October 1804 in Lyon, France. Allan was a writer, known for O Espiritismo, de Kardec aos Dias de Hoje (1995). Allan was married to Amélie Gabrielle Boudet. Allan died on 31 March 1869 in Villa Ségur, Bordeaux, France.
- Production Manager
- Location Management
- Additional Crew
Caroline Dumas was born on 23 February 1971 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Caroline was a production manager, known for Nuage (2007), Joséphine, ange gardien (1997) and Waiting for Anya (2020). Caroline died on 13 December 2023 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Actor
- Director
- Cinematographer
Pierre Molinier was born on 13 April 1900 in Agen, Lot-et-Garonne, France. He was an actor and director, known for Jambes (1965), Satan bouche un coin (1968) and Chromo sud (1968). He died on 3 March 1976 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Alain Marty was born on 2 October 1937 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Les noces de Figaro (1997), Paris Shanghai (2011) and J'aime la vie, je fais du vélo, je vais au cinéma (2005). He died on 23 January 2009 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.- Micheline Banzet was born on 18 November 1923 in Paris, France. She was married to N.Cruze and Lawton, Hugues. She died on 23 August 2020 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Jacques Manlay was born on 23 November 1933 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le grand échiquier (1972), Un comédien lit un auteur (1979) and Georges Mathieu (1966). He died on 21 November 2010 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France.