Edmond T. Gréville

Directing·Jun 20, 1906·Nice, France

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director. The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence), and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time. He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In Le Port du désir (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man. In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was L'Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel. In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of complications following a car accident. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edmond T. Gréville, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
The Accident1963 · Director	Director
HHouse of Sin1961 · Director	Director
The Hands of Orlac1960 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Beat Girl1960 · Director	Director
Temptation1959 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
When Will It Strike Noon1958 · Director	Director
Guilty?1956 · Director	Director
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes1955 · Director	Director
House on the Waterfront1955 · Director	Director
Other Side of Paradise1953 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Romantic Age1949 · Director	Director
But Not in Vain1948 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Noose1948 · Director	Director
Woman of Evil1947 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Passionnelle1947 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Dorothy Looks for Love1945 · Director	Director
A Woman in the Night1943 · Director	Director
Threats1940 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
WWhat a Man!1939 · Director	Director
Forty Years1938 · Director	Director
Under Secret Orders1937 · Director	Director
Brief Ecstasy1937 · Director	Director
Secret Lives1937 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Gypsy Melody1936 · Director	Director
Princess Tam Tam1935 · Director	Director
Whirlpool1935 · Director	Director
Marchand d'amour1935 · Director	Director
PPleasures of Paris1934 · Director	Director
The Fire Triangle1932 · Director	Director
The Train of Suicides1931 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer