Jacques Becker

Infobox actor
name = Jacques Becker
birthdate = September 15, 1906
birthplace = Paris, France
deathdate = February 21, 1960
deathplace = Paris, France
othername =
occupation = Screenwriter
Film director
yearsactive = 1935 - 1960
imdb_id = 0065442

Jacques Becker (September 15, 1906 - February 21, 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.

Becker was born in Paris. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir. Part of the Comité de libération du cinéma français, during the German occupation of France in World War II, the Nazis held him in prison for a year.

He married actress Françoise Fabian. Their son Jean Becker also became a film director.

Jacques Becker died at the age of fifty-three in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

Filmography

Director

*Le Trou (1960)
*Les Amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19) (1958)
*The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
*Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
*Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954)
*Rue de l'Estrapade (1953)
*Casque d'or (1952)
*Édouard et Caroline (1951)
*Rendez-vous in July (1949)
*Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
*Paris Frills (1945)
*It Happened at the Inn (1943)
*Dernier atout (1942)
*Cristobal's Gold (1940) (some scenes)
*Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié (1935 short) (co-director)
*Tête de turc (1935)

Assistant Director

*The Mondesir Heir (1940)
*La Marseillaise (1938)
*La Grande illusion (1937)
*Les bas-fonds (1936)
*La vie est à nous (1936)
*Partie de campagne (1936 short)
*Madame Bovary (1933) (uncredited)
*Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
*Night at the Crossroads (1932)
*Allô... Allô... (1931 short)
*Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique (1931)

External links

* [http://www.theyshootpictures.com/beckerjacques.htm They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?]
*imdb name|id=0065442|name=Jacques Becker

Persondata
NAME= Becker, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Screenwriter, Film director
DATE OF BIRTH= September 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH= Paris FRA
DATE OF DEATH= February 21, 1960
PLACE OF DEATH= Paris FRA