biography
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Melville, Jean
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originally Jean Pierre Grumbach
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pronunciation:
[melveel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1917–73)
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| biography:
| Film-maker, born in Paris, France. After service in the French and British armies, he became inspired by American films and set up his own production company in Paris in 1945. He produced a film adaptation of Le Silence de la Mer by Vercors in 1949, and Cocteau's Enfants Terribles in 1950. Many later films concerned violence and gangsters, such as Le Samourai (1967) and Un Flic (1972). |
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