Biography
Paul Misraki (28 January 1908 – 29 October 1998) was a French composer of popular music and film scores. Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films, scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel and Roger Vadim.
For his work, he was made a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.
Born Paul Misrachi in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) into a French Jewish family of Italian descent, Misraki showed an early aptitude for music. He went to Paris to study classical composition, and by the 1930s had become an established jazz pianist, arranger, and writer of popular songs; around this time he began composing film scores, with his first known work being for Jean Renoir's first sound film, On purge bébé (Baby's Laxative, 1931), for which he was not credited.
Like Renoir, Misraki fled France during the World War II German occupation. After a brief stay in Argentina, Misraki ended up in Hollywood, where he composed the music to all of Renoir's American films. After the war, Misraki returned to France, working busily throughout the 1950s, a period when he was routinely scoring half a dozen or more films a year. These included numerous films by Yves Allégret and Jean Boyer, as well as two films by Jacques Becker, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs, 1954) and Montparnasse 19 (1958) and Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (1955). The 1960s saw Misraki slow down slightly, writing only 2–3 scores a year. During this period, he worked with many of the leading French directors of the period, including Jean-Luc Godard on Alphaville (1965), Jean-Pierre Melville on Le Doulos (1963) and Claude Chabrol, for whom he scored several films.
Misraki composed intermittently throughout the last two decades of his life. He composed his last score at age 85; by this point he had been working almost exclusively in television for several years. He died of natural causes at age 90 in Paris.
Misraki first found acclaim as a composer and lyricist of popular songs. His first hit was 1935's "Tout va très bien madame la marquise," and during his careers in France, America and Argentina he wrote successful songs in French, English and Spanish. In 1998, at the age of 90 years, Misraki collaborates with Singer Raquel Bitton on her American tribute to his songs in a CD entitled In a Jazzy mood. ...
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Filmography
all 130
Movies 127
TV Shows 3
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Stress (1984)
La Chance aux chansons (1984)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Such a Lovely Town... (1979)
Fire's Share (1978)
Le Maestro (1977)
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's (1976)
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside (1976)
Système 2 (1975)
The Arrest (1975)
Bloody Murder (1974)
Juliette et Juliette (1974)
Closed Shutters (1973)
A Murder Is a Murder (1972)
Le dernier homme (1969)
The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968)
Attack of the Robots (1966)
Alphaville (1965)
Le Majordome (1965)
Hard Boiled Ones (1964)
The Gallant Musketeer (1964)
Jack and Jenny (1963)
L'assassin connaît la musique (1963)
Your Turn, Darling (1963)
We Will Go to Deauville (1962)
Le Doulos (1962)
Clash of Steel (1962)
Ladies' Man (1962)
Rendezvous (1961)
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers (1961)
The Fighting Musketeers (1961)
Towards Ecstasy (1960)
Women Are Like That (1960)
Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
The Boss (1960)
The Good Girls (1960)
Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959)
À double tour (1959)
Way of Youth (1959)
The Gendarme of Champignol (1959)
The Cousins (1959)
Women Are Weak (1959)
Dangerous Games (1958)
Sunday Encounter (1958)
The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
Sans famille (1958)
Les fanatiques (1957)
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels (1957)
Young Girls Beware (1957)
Sénéchal the Magnificent (1957)
The Irony of Money (1957)
The Virtuous Bigamist (1956)
...And God Created Woman (1956)
Death in the Garden (1956)
The Lebanese Mission (1956)
Plucking the Daisy (1956)
My Priest Among the Poor (1956)
Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)
Thunderstorm (1956)
The Best Part (1955)
The Little Rebels (1955)
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Oasis (1955)
Fortune carrée (1955)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
Le Fil à la patte (1954)
Obsession (1954)
Dames Don't Care (1954)
Tourments (1954)
Une vie de garçon (1954)
The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
Napoleon Road (1953)
Other Side of Paradise (1953)
Femmes de Paris (1953)
Les Dents longues (1953)
She and Me (1952)
Crazy for Love (1952)
The Moment of Truth (1952)
Desperate Decision (1952)
French Touch (1952)
The Man in My Life (1952)
Monte Carlo Baby (1951)
Young Love (1951)
Utopia (1951)
Savage Triangle (1951)
Dirty Hands (1951)
Paris Vice Squad (1951)
Dr. Knock (1951)
The Gamblers (1950)
Ils ont vingt ans (1950)
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1950)
The Prize (1950)
No Pity for Women (1950)
Thirst of Men (1950)
The Chocolate Girl (1950)
We Will All Go to Paris (1950)
All Roads Lead to Rome (1949)
Manon (1949)
Passport to Rio (1948)
Mademoiselle Has Fun (1948)
Navidad de los pobres (1947)
Are You Quite Sure? (1947)
Devil and the Angel (1946)
Loves, Delights and Organs (1946)
Heartbeat (1946)
El fin de la noche (1944)
La importancia de ser ladrón (1944)
Siete mujeres (1944)
Stella (1943)
Eclipse de sol (1943)
The Duraton Family (1940)
Beating Heart (1940)
Whirlwind of Paris (1939)
Feux de joie (1939)
Le Prince Bouboule (1939)
Place de la Concorde (1939)
I Was an Adventuress (1938)
Beautiful Star (1938)
Return at Dawn (1938)
Chéri-Bibi (1938)
Le chanteur de minuit (1937)
Claudine at School (1937)
The House Across the Street (1937)
Les Gaietés du palace (1936)
Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise (1936)
Moutonnet (1936)
Midnight, Place Pigalle (1934)
Coralie and Company (1934)
Baby's Laxative (1931)
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GenderMale
Birthday1908-01-28
Deathday1998-10-29 (90 years old)
Birth NamePaul Marie Misrachi
Birth PlaceIstanbul, Turkey
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsPaul Marie Misrachi
AwardsKnight of the Legion of Honour, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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