Screenwriters Famous Screenwriters from France

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Sophie Marceau age 51 Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum and La Boum 2, receiving a ...more

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Roman Polanski age 84 Roman Polanski is a Polish and, since 1976, naturalized-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. Having made films in Poland, the United Kingdom, France and the United States, he is ...more

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Julie Delpy age 48 Julie Delpy is a French-American actress, film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, ...more

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Christopher Reeve Died at 52 (1952-2004) Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, author, and activist. He achieved stardom for his acting achievements, in particular his motion picture ...more

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Alain Delon age 82 Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor and businessman, with French-Swiss dual citizenship since 1999. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared ...more

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Vincent Cassel age 51 Vincent Cassel is a Cesar Award-winning French actor best known to English-speaking audiences through his film performances in Ocean's Twelve and Ocean's Thirteen, as well as Black Swan. Cassel ...more

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Jules Verne Died at 77 (1828-1905) Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to ...more

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Mélanie Laurent age 35 Mélanie Laurent is a film actress, film director, singer and screenwriter.

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Jane Birkin age 71 Jane Birkin is an actor.

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Anna Karina age 77 Anna Karina is a Danish-French citizen, film actress, director, and screenwriter who has spent most of her working life in France. She is known as a muse of the director Jean-Luc Godard, one of ...more

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Victor Hugo Died at 83 (1802-1885) Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes ...more

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Jean-Luc Godard age 87 Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement La Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave". Like his New ...more

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Marguerite Duras Died at 82 (1914-1996) Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French writer and film director.

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Jean Genet Died at 76 (1910-1986) Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing. His major works include ...more

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Jean Cocteau Died at 74 (1889-1963) Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants Terribles, and the films Blood ...more

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Alejandro Jodorowsky age 89 Alejandro Jodorowsky is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, musician, comics writer and spiritual guru. Best known for his avant-garde films, he has been "venerated by cult ...more

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Jean Dujardin age 45 Jean Dujardin is a French actor, director, producer and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before starting his acting career guest-starring in comedic television ...more

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Serge Gainsbourg Died at 63 (1928-1991) Serge Gainsbourg was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French popular ...more

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Jeanne Moreau age 90 Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director. She is the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film ...more

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Georges Méliès Died at 77 (1861-1938) Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the ...more

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Guillaume Canet age 44 Guillaume Canet is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love ...more

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Jean-Daniel Cadinot Died at 64 (1944-2008) Jean Daniel Cadinot was a French photographer, director and producer of gay pornographic films.

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Luc Besson age 59 Luc Besson is a French film director, writer, and producer. He is known for directing and producing thrillers and action films that are visually rich. Critics cite Besson as a pivotal figure in ...more

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Denis Diderot Died at 71 (1713-1784) Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor and contributor to the ...more

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Jean-Claude Brialy Died at 74 (1933-2007) Jean-Claude Brialy was a French actor, director and socialite.

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Jean Renoir Died at 85 (1894-1979) Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His ...more

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Laurent Ruquier age 55 Laurent Ruquier is a French television and radio host, producer, and satirical comedian. He is also a lyricist, writer, playwright and producer of shows, and owns his own theatre.

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Maria de Medeiros age 52 Maria Esteves de Medeiros Vitorino de Almeida,DamSE, known as Maria de Medeiros, is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film

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Roger Vadim Died at 72 (1928-2000) Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, film director/and producer, as well as an author and occasional actor.

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Michel Legrand age 86 Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist. Legrand is a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores in addition to many ...more

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François Mauriac Died at 85 (1885-1970) François Charles Mauriac was a French author, member of the Académie française, and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the

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Éric Rohmer Died at 90 (1920-2010) Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer, was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. ...more

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Jean-Pierre Aumont Died at 90 (1911-2001) Jean-Pierre Aumont was a French actor, and holder of the Legion d'Honneur and the Croix de Guerre for his World War II military service.

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Mireille Darc age 79 Mireille Darc is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End. Darc is a Chevalier ...more

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Maurice Tourneur Died at 85 (1876-1961) Maurice Tourneur was a French film director and screenwriter.

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François Truffaut Died at 52 (1932-1984) François Roland Truffaut was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a ...more

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Chris Marker Died at 91 (1921-2012) Chris Marker was a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. His best known films are La Jetée, A Grin Without a Cat, Sans Soleil and ...more

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Albert Uderzo age 90 Albert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. He is best known for his work on the Astérix series, but also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, also in collaboration ...more

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Robert Florey Died at 79 (1900-1979) Robert Florey was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and occasional actor. Born in Paris, and at first a film journalist, Florey moved to the United States in September ...more

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William Wyler Died at 79 (1902-1981) William Wyler was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Notable works included Ben-Hur, The Best Years of Our Lives, and Mrs. Miniver, all of which won Wyler Academy Awards for ...more

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Omar Sy age 40 Omar Sy is a French actor and comedian. He is best known for his duo with Fred Testot, Omar et Fred, and for his role in The Intouchables. He received a César Award for Best Actor on 24 ...more

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Roman Coppola age 52 Roman Ford Coppola is an American film director, screenwriter, and music video director. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for 2012's Moonrise Kingdom.

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Alice Guy-Blaché Died at 95 (1873-1968) Alice Guy-Blaché was an early French filmmaker. She was the first woman director in the motion-picture industry and is one of the first directors of fiction films.

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Charles Perrault Died at 75 (1628-1703) Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from ...more

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Gérard de Villiers Died at 84 (1929-2013) Gérard de Villiers was a French writer, journalist and publisher whose SAS series of spy novels have been major bestsellers. According to the New York Times, "His works have been ...more

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Fernando Arrabal age 85 Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955; he describes himself as ...more

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Samuel Benchetrit age 44 Samuel Benchétrit is a French writer, actor, scenarist and director of Moroccan descent. He had a son with Marie Trintignant. He lives with Anna Mouglalis; they have a daughter, Saul. She

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Jean Rollin Died at 72 (1938-2010) Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire and the first ...more

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Romane Bohringer age 44 Romane Bohringer is a French actress, film director, screenwriter and costume designer. She is the daughter of Richard Bohringer and sister of Lou Bohringer. Her parents named her after Roman ...more

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Mathieu Kassovitz age 50 Mathieu Kassovitz is an actor, director and producer.