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DIED
August 02, 1973

RECENT CREDITS
Leon Morin, Prêtre (FILM)  Apr. 17, 2009
Le Silence de la Mer (FILM)  Apr. 25, 2008
Army of Shadows (FILM)  Apr. 28, 2006
Le Cercle Rouge (FILM)  Jan. 10, 2003
Breathless (FILM)  Apr. 7, 2000

BIOGRAPHY
Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) was an amateur filmmaker as a teenager who, after the start of World War II, began making his own independent short and feature films. He hit his stride in the '50s with....
Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) was an amateur filmmaker as a teenager who, after the start of World War II, began making his own independent short and feature films. He hit his stride in the '50s with his memorable adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novel, Les Enfants Terribles, and, over the next 20 years, specialized in intelligent and exciting crime films, most notably Bob le Flambeur, Le Doulos (aka The Finger Man), Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge, and Un Flic. Melville also acted in his own Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan, as well as Cocteau's Orphee, Jean-Luc Godard's À Bout de Souffle (aka Breathless), and Claude Chabrol's Landru (aka Bluebeard). He died in 1973.

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