Biography
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
Melville's subject matter and approach to filmmaking was heavily influenced by his service in the French Resistance during World War II, during which he adopted the pseudonym 'Melville' as a tribute to his favorite American author Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over.
His sparse, existentialist but stylish approach to film noir and later neo-noir films, many of them in the crime dramas, have been highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. Roger Ebert appraised him as "one of the greatest directors."
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Filmography
all 39
Movies 37
self 14
Director 11
Writer 2
TV Shows 2
Producer 2
Screenplay 1
Narrator 1
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs (2024)
Les rois de la comédie (2023)
Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville (2021)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau (2019)
Thlípsi (2018)
Their First Films (2004)
The Good Thief (2003)
Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante (1977)
A Cop (1972)
Midi trente (1972)
Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle (1966)
Magnet of Doom (1963)
Bluebeard (1963)
Le Doulos (1962)
Le Combat dans l’île (1962)
Sign of the Lion (1962)
Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
Breathless (1960)
A Girl in a Pocket (1957)
Bob le Flambeur (1956)
When You Read This Letter (1953)
Orpheus (1950)
The Strange Ones (1950)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1917-10-20
Deathday1973-08-02 (55 years old)
Birth NameJean-Pierre Claude Grumbach
Birth Place9th arrondissement of Paris, France
SiblingsJacques Grumbach
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsJean-Pierre Grumbach, 让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔, 장피에르 멜빌, 장-피에르 멜빌, 장 피에르 멜빌
AwardsKnight of the Legion of Honour
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