Claude Autant-Lara

Claude Autant-Lara

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1901-08-05
Deathday: 2000-02-05 (98 years old)

Biography

Claude Autant-Lara was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP).


Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best-known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film.


As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless". In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes.


On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly. In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "concerns about the American cultural threat", provoking a walkout by the majority of the deputies.


In an interview granted to the monthly magazine Globe in September 1989, he accused ex-President of the European Parliament and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil of playing "ethnic politics" to try and "infiltrate and dominate", saying that "If they try to speak to me about genocide, I say they missed mother Veil!" He also described Nazi gas chambers as a "string of lies". The resulting scandal led to his resignation as European deputy. Moreover, the members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, of which he was a vice-president for life, voted to prohibit him from taking his seat thenceforth.


His memoir, The Rage in the Heart, appeared in 1984. He died at Antibes in Alpes-Maritimes in 2000.


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Filmography

all 57

Movies 53

Director 42

self 7

TV Shows 4

Creator 1

Assistant Director
The Crazy Ray

The Crazy Ray (1925)

Movie
Costume Design / Art Direction
L'Inhumaine

L'Inhumaine (1924)

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ProductionDesigner
Villa Destin

Villa Destin (1921)

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Un des copains (uncredited) / Art Direction / Production Design
The Man of the Sea

The Man of the Sea (1920)

Movie

Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1901-08-05

Deathday
2000-02-05 (98 years old)

Birth Name
Claude Autant

Birth Place
Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France

Height

Father
Édouard Autant

Mother
Louise Lara

Citizenships
France

Also Known As
Claude Moore, Клод Отан-Лара

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