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François Boyer
Sézanne, Marne, France
François Boyer (1920 - 24 May 2003) was a French screenwriter. He achieved considerable success with his first attempt at screenwriting, Forbidden Games (1952). Initially, he foun…
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François Boyer (1920 - 24 May 2003) was a French screenwriter. He achieved considerable success with his first attempt at screenwriting, Forbidden Games (1952). Initially, he found no studio interested in his work, so he redesigned the screenplay as a novel and published it in 1947 under the title The Secret Game. Although the novel achieved little or no success in its native country, it became a huge commercial success in America. All of a sudden, Boyer's novel was a hot property, so director René Clément, in conjunction with two writers Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, helped turn it into a screenplay. While Boyer receives story credit for the film, little is known of how much of his own screenplay made it to the screen. The film was a huge international success, and won an Honorary Oscar for the best foreign language film of its year. Although Boyer remained prolific throughout the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, little of his subsequent work had as much impact as Forbidden Games. His 1962 film La Guerre des Boutons, however, was remade by producer David Puttnam in 1994 as The War of the Buttons. Source: Article "François Boyer" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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1976
Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel
TV show Dialogue
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1976
Don't Bite, We Love You
Movie Writer
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1974
Gross Paris
Movie Screenplay
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1973
Prêtres interdits
Movie Screenplay
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1973
The Woman in Blue
Movie Writer
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1972
The Bar at the Crossing
Movie Writer
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1970
Le Petit Bougnat
Movie Screenplay
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1969
Under the Sign of the Bull
Movie Writer
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1968
The Most Beautiful Month
Movie Writer
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1967
The 25th Hour
Movie Writer
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1966
The Gardener of Argenteuil
Movie Writer
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1965
The Buddies
Movie Writer
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1964
Weekend at Dunkirk
Movie Adaptation
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1963
Bebert and the Train
Movie Writer
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1962
A Monkey in Winter
Movie Writer
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1962
War of the Buttons
Movie Priest (uncredited)
More credits
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1960
The Magician
Movie Writer
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1959
Green Harvest
Movie Dialogue
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1959
It Only Happens to the Living
Movie Screenplay
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1958
The Gambler
Movie Writer
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1957
A Kiss for a Killer
Movie Dialogue
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1957
Que les hommes sont bêtes
Movie Writer
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1957
Élisa
Movie Writer
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1956
People of No Importance
Movie Dialogue
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1955
The Little Rebels
Movie Adaptation
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1954
The Scheming Women
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Wild Fruit
Movie Writer
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1952
Forbidden Games
Movie Screenplay
