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Marcel Achard (b. 5 July 1899, in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône; d. 4 September 1974, Paris) was a French playwright and screenwriter whose popular sentimental comedies maintained his position as a highly-recognizable name in his country’s theatrical and literary circles for five decades. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1959.
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Marcel Achard Biography / Wiki
| Name | Marcel Achard |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Writing |
| Place of Birth | Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France |
| Date of Birth | 1899-07-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 75 |
| Deathday | 1974-09-04 |
Marcel Achard Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Venom and Eternity | Self | 1951-04-20 | In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of mov… |
| Les trésors de Marcel Pagnol | Self (archive footage) | 2019-06-05 | … |
| Entr’acte | A man following the hearse (uncredited) | 1924-12-04 | Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair’s first and most ‘dada’ film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We… |
| Love, Madame | Self (uncredited) | 1952-01-23 | Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans…. |
| Cherchez l’idole | Self, guest at Sylvie Vartan’s show (uncredited) | 1964-02-26 | After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious i… |
Marcel Achard Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Folies Bergère | Director | 1935-05-09 | Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)…. |
| Paris Waltz | Director | 1950-05-04 | A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider…. |
| Jean de la Lune | Director | 1949-01-26 | Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and he… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Lady in Question | Story | 1940-08-07 | When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn’t convict, she has a bad influence on his son…. |
| Mademoiselle Nitouche | Writer | 1954-04-21 | Celestin works as an organist at a girl’s school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls’ incessant practical jokes. By night, howe… |
| The Deserter | Screenplay | 1939-03-18 | During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents…. |
| Gribouille | Screenplay | 1937-09-10 | Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn’t want to believe she… |
| Pétrus | Screenplay | 1946-10-02 | Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless lo… |
| Twilight | Writer | 1944-12-20 | At the beginning of the 20th century, the destiny of Félicie Nanteuil, a young girl from the provinces who became a big star on the stage thanks to a… |
| Friends of the family | Screenplay | 1964-10-20 | Leon Rollo whose nickname is “Patate” is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed… |
| Storm | Writer | 1954-04-16 | … |
| The Earrings of Madame de… | Screenplay | 1953-09-16 | In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day t… |
| The Earrings of Madame de… | Dialogue | 1953-09-16 | In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day t… |
| La Garçonne | Writer | 1957-04-04 | La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When sh… |
| L’Alibi | Writer | 1937-12-22 | Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another… |
| The Little Ones of the Flower Platform | Screenplay | 1944-05-26 | A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories. R… |
| Domino | Writer | 1943-07-28 | Domino has only a wooden statuette, a typical piece of African art, to show for his trip. Arriving in Paris, Domino phones the famous Heller galleries… |
| A bolond lány | Writer | 1980-01-01 | … |
| Folies Bergère | Writer | 1935-05-09 | Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)…. |
| Mayerling | Screenplay | 1936-01-31 | Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stif… |
| A Woman Like Satan | Writer | 1959-02-13 | Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him…. |
| A Shot in the Dark | Theatre Play | 1964-06-23 | Inspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon’s driver at a country estate…. |
| Jean de la lune | Author | 1982-12-31 | … |
| Pétrus | Writer | 1974-08-13 | … |
| La bagatelle | Author | 1977-01-01 | … |
| Noix de coco | Author | 1972-12-11 | … |
| Strange M. Victor | Writer | 1938-05-04 | Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and consider… |
| The Beautiful Sailor | Writer | 1932-12-02 | A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Mar… |
| The Messenger | Writer | 1937-09-02 | Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels wit… |
| Under Secret Orders | Adaptation | 1937-12-06 | During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for Ge… |
| Lunegarde | Screenplay | 1946-01-16 | A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that … |
| Girl on the Third Floor | Dialogue | 1955-08-02 | … |
| The Idiot | Theatre Play | 1991-12-10 | A free-spirited, guileless and amoral young woman, who works as a maid in the home of one of the most prominent and influential families in France was… |
| Naples Under the Kiss of Fire | Writer | 1937-12-07 | Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment wi… |
| Zeit des Glücks | Writer | 1961-05-31 | … |
| Domino | Theatre Play | 1967-04-27 | … |
| Domino | Theatre Play | 1976-07-10 | … |
| Famous Love Affairs | Dialogue | 1961-11-03 | Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis…. |
| The Country I Come From | Writer | 1956-10-19 | One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Jul… |
| Immortal France | Writer | 1943-04-07 | The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussia… |
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