Jacques Becker

Known for DirectingBorn 1906-09-15Died 1960-02-21Paris, France

Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as Partie de campagne (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937). In the early part of World War II, Becker was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp for a year. During the Nazi occupation of France, he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'or held in high esteem among film critics. Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Becker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Cristobal's Gold

Cinépanorama

Le Trou

Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker

Grand Illusion

Casque d'Or

A Day in the Country

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

The Lovers of Montparnasse

Pitiless Gendarme

Boudu Saved from Drowning

It Happened at the Inn

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

Edward and Caroline

Paris Frills

Night at the Crossroads

Life Is Ours

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Antoine & Antoinette

Chotard and Co.

Rendezvous in July

Le Bled

Rue de l'estrapade

The Trump Card

On the Set of 'Casque D'Or'

The Great Hope