Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme Infidèle (1969) and Le Boucher (1970) — all featuring his then-wife, Stéphane Audran. Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary (1991) and La Ceremonie (1996). Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Chabrol, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

• 2026Minotaur — Original Film Writer
• 2026Short Cuts : Le boucher de Claude Chabrol — Original Film Writer
• 2018The Other Side of the Wind — Claude Chabrol
• 2012The Day of the Crows — Le docteur (voice)
• 2010Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life — Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg
• Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe — Director
• 2009Bellamy — Screenplay, Director
• 2009La première séance
• 2009À bicyclette
• 2008Le Petit Fût — Director
• 2007A Girl Cut in Two — Director, Writer
• Chez Maupassant — Director
• 2007The Necklace — Director
• 2006Avida — Le zoophile débonnaire
• 2006Comedy of Power — Screenplay, Director
• 2004The Bridesmaid — Screenplay, Director
• 2003The Flower of Evil — Screenplay, Director
• 2002Unfaithful — Original Film Writer
• 2001Coup de vice — Director
• 2000Nightcap — Screenplay, Director
• 1999The Color of Lies — Emmanuel Solar (voice) (uncredited), Writer, Director
• 1997The Swindle — Director, Writer
• 1997Troubles — Writer
• 1995La Cérémonie — Writer, Director
• 1994Torment — Director, Writer
• 1993The Eye of Vichy — Director
• 1992Betty — Director, Screenplay
• 1992Sam's Enough — M. Denis
• 1991Madame Bovary — Screenplay, Director
• 1991The King of Ads — Director
• 1990Dr. M — Adaptation, Director
• 1990Quiet Days in Clichy — Screenplay, Director
• 1988Lark, I'll Pluck You! — Pierre Vergne
• 1988Story of Women — Director, Writer
• Sueurs froides — Creator
• The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin — Writer, Director, Creator
• 1987Jeux d'artifices — Jacques' father
• 1987L'été en pente douce — le prêtre
• 1987Masks — Screenplay, Director
• 1987Sale Destin — The commissioner
• 1987The Cry of the Owl — Screenplay, Director
• 1986Follow My Gaze — The couch potato
• 1986I Hate Actors
• 1986Inspector Lavardin — Director, Writer
• 1985Cop au Vin — Director, Writer
• 1984Homicide by night
• 1984Polar — Théodore Lyssenko
• 1984The Blood of Others — Director
• 1984Thieves After Dark — Louis Crépin, dit Tartuffe
• 1983Elective Affinities — Director
• 1982La danse de mort — Director, Screenplay, Adaptation
• 1982M the Damned — Director, Adaptation
• 1982The Hatter's Ghost — Director, Writer
• 1981Secrets of the Satin Blues — Un invité au vernissage
• Fantômas — Art Direction, Director, Creator
• 1980The Horse of Pride — Director
• 1979Jeunesse et Spiritualité : Cyprien Katsaris — Director
• 1979La boucle d'oreille — Director
• 1978Blood Relatives — Screenplay, Director
• 1978Monsieur Saint-Saëns — Writer, Director
• 1978Violette Nozière — Screenplay, Director
• 1977Alice or the Last Escapade — Writer, Director
• 1977Animal — Le metteur en scène
• 1976De Grey, un Récit romanesque — Director
• Henry James Stories — Producer, Director
• 1976The Twist — Le client chez l'éditeur (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1975A Piece of Pleasure — Director
• 1975Death Rite — Director, Writer
• 1975Innocents with Dirty Hands — Director, Screenplay
• 1974An Invitation to the Hunt — Director
• 1974Le Permis de conduire
• 1974Monsieur Bébé — Director, Writer
• 1974Nul n'est parfait — Director
• 1974The Nada Gang — Director, Screenplay
• 1974The Summer People — Director
• 1973Wedding in Blood — Screenplay, Director
• 1972A Murder Is a Murder — Railway guard
• 1972Scoundrel in White — Director
• 1972Églantine — Technical Advisor
• 1971As Far as Love Can Go — L'homme au poteau (uncredited)
• 1971Just Before Nightfall — Director, Screenplay
• 1971Ten Days' Wonder — Director
• 1970Sortie de secours
• 1970The Breach — Passenger on the Tram, Director, Screenplay
• 1970The Butcher — Director, Screenplay
• 1969Autour de L'Enfance nue
• 1969Et crac…! — Marie's husband
• 1969The Scarlet Lady — Liftier (uncredited)
• 1969The Unfaithful Wife — Director, Screenplay
• 1969This Man Must Die — Director, Screenplay
• 196813 Days in France — Producer
• 1968A Little Virtuous — Cub 22 customer /Man at the bar in the night club (uncredited)
• 1968Les Biches — Filmmaker (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Dialogue
• 1967The Champagne Murders — Director
• 1967The Road to Corinth — Alcibiade, Director
• 1966Brigitte and Brigitte — Le cousin
• 1966Line of Demarcation — Director, Writer
• 1965La Muette — Director
• 1965Our Agent Tiger — Radiologist (uncredited), Director
• 1965Six in Paris — The Father (segment "La Muette"), Director, Writer
• 1965The Blue Panther — Bartender (uncredited), Writer, Director, Scenario Writer
• 1964Chance at Love — Director
• 1964Code Name: Tiger — Director
• 1964Hard Boiled Ones — Psychiatrist
• 1964The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers — Director, Writer
• 1963Bluebeard — Director
• 1963Ophélia — Screenplay, Director
• 1962A Touch of Treason — le jogger avec le sifflet au parc
• 1962Greed — The Pharmacist (uncredited), Director
• 1962Sign of the Lion — Producer
• 1962The Seven Deadly Sins — Le Pharmacien (segment "L'avarice'") (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1962The Third Lover — L'homme dans le peep show, Director, Writer
• 1961House of Sin — The hotel receptionist (uncredited)
• 1961Paris Belongs to Us — A man at the party (uncredited), Co-Producer
• 1961Saint-Tropez Blues — Le réalisateur empruntant des propos de Pierre Kast
• 1961The Joker — Co-Producer
• 1961Wise Guys — Screenplay, Director
• 1960Breathless — Technical Supervisor, Original Story, Technical Advisor
• 1960Les Bonnes Femmes — Swimmer (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• 1960The Love Game — Le forain, Producer
• 1959Le Beau Serge — La Truffe, Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 1959The Cousins — Screenplay, Producer, Director
• 1959Véronique and Her Dunce — Executive Producer
• 1959À double tour — Director, Dialogue
• 1956Fool’s Mate — Party guest (uncredited), Screenplay, Producer
• 1956The Kreutzer Sonata — Cameo (uncredited)
• Visages de Cinéma — Soi-Méme

Appearances as themselves (56)

• 2025Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2024Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol — Self (archive) - filmmaker
• 2023Godard Cinema — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin — Self
• 2021Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Sous le soleil de Pialat — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Claude Chabrol, the Maverick — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2018Cannes 1968, révolution au palais — Self
• 2016Vadim Mister Cool — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Du rififi chez les hommes - Jules Dassin, l'élégance du noir — Himself
• 2009Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju — Self
• 2009Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' — Self
• 2007Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow — Self
• 2006A Cinema of Signs: Claude Chabrol on Alfred Hitchcock — Self
• 2006Filmmakers in Action — Self
• 2006The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol — Self
• 2004Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years — Self
• 2004Bâtons d'encens pour Mizoguchi — Self
• 2004Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands — Self (Interviewee)
• 2003Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux — Self
• 2003Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film — Self
• 2003Die Welt des Claude Chabrol - Eine Nahaufnahme zum 50. Film — Self
• 2002All the Love You Cannes! — Self
• 2001Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer — Self
• 2001Les acteurs anonymes — Self (uncredited)
• 2000Nouvelle Vague : El cine sin dogmas — Self
• 1999Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• 1996François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child — Self
• 1995Son of Gascogne — Self
• NeXt — Self
• 1993Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède — Self
• 1993Claude Chabrol, l'entomologiste — Self
• 1993François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits — Self (archive footage)
• 1993Isabelle Huppert and Claude Chabrol: Crossed Portraits — Self
• 1993Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II — Self
• 1992Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave — Self
• Les Nuls, l'émission — Self - Guest
• Matin Bonheur — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Aujourd'hui la vie — Self
• 1981Droit de Réponse — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Ciné regards — Self
• 1975Auf dem Trümmerfeld der Träume — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• Midi trente — Self
• Samedi soir — Self
• 1967Josef von Sternberg - From Silence Comes Another — Self
• Des chiffres et des lettres — Self - Guest
• 1964La Nouvelle Vague par elle-même — Self
• New Reports from France — Self
• Discorama — Self
• Cinépanorama — Self
• Reflets de Cannes — Self