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Known For:
Directing
Birthday:
September 15, 1906
Place of Birth:
Paris, France
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Jacques Becker
Biography
Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.
Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as Partie de campagne (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937). In the early part of World War II, Becker was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp for a year. During the Nazi occupation of France, he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'or held in high esteem among film critics.
Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker | Self (archive footage) |
| 1957 | The Adventures of Arsène Lupin | The crown prince |
| 1951 | On the Set of 'Casque D'Or' | Self (Archive Footage) |
| 1946 | A Day in the Country | Seminarian (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Grand Illusion | L'officier anglais |
| 1936 | Life Is Ours | Le jeune chômeur |
| 1935 | Pitiless Gendarme | Un Saint-Cyrien |
| 1933 | Chotard and Co. | Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited) |
| 1932 | Boudu Saved from Drowning | Le Poète (uncredited) |
| 1929 | Le Bled | Un ouvrier agricole |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma | Self (archive footage) |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |