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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Becker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фільмографія

• 1960Діра — Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
• 1958The Lovers of Montparnasse — Director, Screenplay
• 1957The Adventures of Arsène Lupin — The crown prince, Director, Writer
• 1954Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves — Director, Writer
• 1954Touchez Pas au Grisbi — Director, Screenplay
• 1953Rue de l'estrapade — Director
• 1952Casque d'Or — Adaptation, Screenplay, Director, Dialogue
• 1951Edward and Caroline — Director, Writer
• 1949Rendezvous in July — Writer, Director
• 1947Antoine & Antoinette — Director, Writer
• 1946A Day in the Country — Seminarian (uncredited), First Assistant Director
• 1945Paris Frills — Director, Writer
• 1943It Happened at the Inn — Director, Adaptation
• 1942The Trump Card — Director
• 1940Cristobal's Gold — Director
• 1937The Great Hope — Director
• 1937Велика ілюзія — British Officer (uncredited), First Assistant Director
• 1936Life Is Ours — Le jeune chômeur, Director, Writer
• 1935Pitiless Gendarme — Un Saint-Cyrien, Screenplay, Director
• 1933Chotard and Co. — Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited)
• 1932Boudu Saved from Drowning — Le Poète (uncredited), Assistant Director
• 1932Night at the Crossroads — Assistant Director, Production Manager
• 1931Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique — Assistant Director
• 1929Le Bled — Un ouvrier agricole

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (4)

• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)
• 1967Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker — Self (archive footage)
• Cinépanorama — Self
• 1951On the Set of 'Casque D'Or' — Self (Archive Footage)