Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969). Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2022Belmondo: The Incorrigible
• 2021Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville — Original Film Writer
• 2020Melville, le dernier samouraï — (archives)
• 2018Thlípsi — Thanks
• 2004Their First Films — Director
• 2003The Good Thief — Original Film Writer
• 1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai — Thanks
• 1972Un Flic — Director, Writer
• 1970Le Cercle Rouge — Director, Editor, Writer
• 1969Army of Shadows — Director, Screenplay
• 1967Le Samouraï — Director, Screenplay
• 1966Le Deuxième Souffle — Writer, Director
• 1963Bluebeard — Clemenceau's Aide
• 1963Magnet of Doom — Director, Dialogue, Screenplay
• 1962Le Combat dans l'île — Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)
• 1962Le Doulos — Director, Screenplay
• 1962Sign of the Lion — Un Consommateur (uncredited)
• 1961Léon Morin, Priest — Director, Writer
• 1960Breathless — Parvulesco the Writer
• 1959Two Men in Manhattan — Moreau, Director, Writer
• 1957A Girl in a Pocket — Commissioner
• 1956Bob le Flambeur — Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• 1953When You Read This Letter — Director, Producer
• 1950Orpheus — Hotel Manager (uncredited)
• 1950The Strange Ones — Director, Writer, Producer, Production Design
• 1949The Silence of the Sea — Director, Adaptation, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Editor
• 194624 Hours in the Life of a Clown — Narrator (uncredited), Director, Producer, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2024Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Les Rois de la comédie — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Lino Ventura, la part intime — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Belmondo, le magnifique — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Melville-Delon: Honor and Night — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Code Name: Melville — Self (archive footage)
• 1977Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante — Self (archive footage)
• Midi trente — Self (archive footage)
• 1971Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses — Himself
• 1966Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle — Self - Interviewee
• Cinépanorama — Self