Richard Pottier

Directing·Jun 6, 1906·Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

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Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch. Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as "David Et Goliath" (starring Orson Welles) and "L'Enlèvement Des Sabines" (starring Roger Moore). He retired in the mid-sixties. He was to live thirty more years.(d.1994)

Film	Credit
Dernier tiercé1965 · Director	Director
Romulus and the Sabines1961 · Director	Director
David and Goliath1960 · Director	Director
Serenade of Texas1958 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Tabarin1958 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
The Singer from Mexico1957 · Director	Director
The Lebanese Mission1956 · Director	Director
The Beautiful Otero1954 · Director	Director
The Rebels of Lomanach1954 · Director	Director
Imperial Violets1952 · Director	Director
The Case Against X1952 · Director	Director
Rendezvous in Grenada1951 · Director	Director
Dear Caroline1951 · Director	Director
Three Sinners1950 · Director	Director
Three Feet in a Bed1950 · Director	Director
Barry1949 · Director	Director
Two Loves1949 · Director	Director
La Nuit blanche1948 · Director	Director
Adventure Starts Tomorrow1948 · Director	Director
Vertiges1947 · Director	Director
Destiny1946 · Director	Director
The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic1946 · Director	Director
Majestic Hotel Cellars1945 · Director	Director
The Wolf Farm1943 · Director	Director
My Love is Near You1943 · Director	Director
Picpus1943 · Director	Director
Eight Men in a Castle1942 · Director	Director
Forbidden to Love1942 · Director	Director
Mademoiselle Swing1942 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The World Will Shake1939 · Director	Director
Lights of Paris1938 · Director	Director
The Secrets of the Red Sea1937 · Director	Director
27, rue de la Paix1936 · Director	Director
Disk 4131936 · Director	Director
GGuilty Melody1936 · Director	Director
Fanfare of Love1935 · Director	Director
A Rare Bird1935 · Director	Director
Si j'étais le patron1934 · Director	Director