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Birthday: Sep 15, 1906
Place of Birth: Paris, France

Jacques Becker

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
A Day in the Country Seminarian (uncredited) 1946
Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié Un Saint-Cyrien 1935
Boudu Saved from Drowning Le Poète (uncredited) 1932
Le Bled Un ouvrier agricole 1929
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin The crown prince 1957
Chotard and Co. Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited) 1933
Grand Illusion L'officier anglais 1937
Life Is Ours Le jeune chômeur 1936
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker Self (archive footage) 1967
Series Cast Year
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma Self (archive footage) 1978
Cinépanorama Self 1956
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