René Clément

Directing·Mar 18, 1913·Bordeaux, Gironde, France

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René Clément (March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya. Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, La Bataille du rail (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits). Clément had international success with several films but his star-studded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning?, written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz was a costly box office failure. Clément continued to make a few films until his retirement in 1975, including an international success with Rider On The Rain that starred Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert. In 1984 the French motion picture industry honored his lifetime contribution to film with a special César Award. René Clément died in 1996 and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement. Description above from the Wikipedia article René Clément, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Film	Credit
The Babysitter1975 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
And Hope to Die1972 · Director	Director
The Deadly Trap1971 · Director	Director
Rider on the Rain1970 · Director	Director
Is Paris Burning?1966 · Director	Director
Joy House1964 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Day and the Hour1963 · Director	Director
The Joy of Living1961 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Purple Noon1960 · Clumsy Waiter (uncredited), Director, Screenplay	Clumsy Waiter (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
This Angry Age1957 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Gervaise1956 · Director	Director
Monsieur Ripois1954 · Director	Director
Forbidden Games1952 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Glass Castle1950 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
The Walls of Malapaga1949 · Director	Director
The Damned1947 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Mr. Orchid1946 · Director	Director
The Battle of the Rails1946 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
CCeux du rail1943 · Director	Director
Aude, belle inconnue1937 · Director	Director
L'Arabie interdite1937 · Director	Director
Watch Your Left1936 · Director	Director
ÉÉvasion1935 · Director	Director
Caesar among the Gauls1931 · Director	Director