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Jacques Becker
Paris, France
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 J…
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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.
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1978
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1967
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1960
Le Trou
Movie Director
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1958
The Lovers of Montparnasse
Movie Director
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1957
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Movie The crown prince
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1956
Cinépanorama
TV show Self
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1954
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Movie Director
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1954
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Movie Director
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1953
Rue de l'estrapade
Movie Director
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1952
Casque d'Or
Movie Adaptation
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1951
Edward and Caroline
Movie Director
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1951
On the Set of 'Casque D'Or'
Movie Self (Archive Footage)
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1949
Rendezvous in July
Movie Writer
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1947
Antoine & Antoinette
Movie Director
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1946
A Day in the Country
Movie Seminarian (uncredited)
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1945
Paris Frills
Movie Director
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1943
It Happened at the Inn
Movie Director
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1942
The Trump Card
Movie Director
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1940
Cristobal's Gold
Movie Director
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1937
The Great Hope
Movie Director
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1937
Grand Illusion
Movie British Officer (uncredited)
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1936
Life Is Ours
Movie Le jeune chômeur
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1935
Pitiless Gendarme
Movie Un Saint-Cyrien
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1933
Chotard and Co.
Movie Un invité au bal costumé (uncredited)
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1932
Boudu Saved from Drowning
Movie Le Poète (uncredited)
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1932
Night at the Crossroads
Movie Assistant Director
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1931
Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique
Movie Assistant Director
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1929
Le Bled
Movie Un ouvrier agricole
