Jean Becker | |
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 Jean Becker in 2013 | |
| Born | 10 May 1933 |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1954–present |
Jean Becker (born 10 May 1933) is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He is son of the director Jacques Becker. [1]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Screenwriter | Other | |||
| 1954 | Touchez pas au grisbi | Yes | First assistant director | ||
| 1954 | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Yes | Assistant director | ||
| 1958 | Maxime | Yes | Assistant director | ||
| 1958 | The Lovers of Montparnasse | Yes | Second assistant director | ||
| 1959 | Gangster Boss | Yes | Assistant director | ||
| 1960 | The Hole | Yes | Assistant director and actor (uncredited) | ||
| 1961 | A Man Named Rocca | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1964 | Backfire | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1965–70 | Les Saintes chéries | Yes | Yes | TV series | |
| 1965 | Pas de caviar pour tante Olga | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1966 | Tender Scoundrel | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1974 | Say It with Flowers | Yes | Actor | ||
| 1977 | Take Me to the Ritz | Yes | Telefilm; actor | ||
| 1979 | La Fabrique, un conte de Noël | Yes | Telefilm; actor | ||
| 1979 | Heart to Heart | Yes | Actor | ||
| 1983 | One Deadly Summer | Yes | Yes | Nominated—Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or Nominated—César Award for Best Film Nominated—César Award for Best Director | |
| 1991 | Lest We Forget | Yes | Segment: "Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée équatoriale" | ||
| 1994 | Ne m'appelez pas petite | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1995 | Élisa | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1997 | La Femme du cosmonaute | Yes | Actor | ||
| 1999 | The Children of the Marshland | Yes | Sitges Film Festival - Gran Angular Award Nominated—César Award for Best Film Nominated—César Award for Best Director | ||
| 2001 | A Crime in Paradise | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2003 | Strange Gardens | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2007 | Conversations with My Gardener | Yes | Yes | Nominated—Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe | |
| 2008 | Love Me No More | Yes | Yes | Nominated—César Award for Best Adaptation Nominated—Globes de Cristal Award for Best Film | |
| 2008 | My Stars | Yes | Actor | ||
| 2010 | My Afternoons with Margueritte | Yes | Yes | Gold Coast International Film Festival - Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature Newport Beach Film Festival - Audience Award for Foreign Feature | |
| 2012 | Welcome Aboard | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2014 | Get Well Soon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also co-producer (uncredited) |
| 2018 | Le Collier rouge | Yes | Yes | ||
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura was an Italian actor who grew up in France and starred in many French films. Born in Italy, he was raised in Paris by his mother. After a first career as a professional wrestler was ended by injury, he was offered a part as a gang boss in the Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars such as Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Rich, Bernard Blier, Jacques Brel, Michel Serrault, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and working with other leading directors such as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, Claude Miller, and the great script writer Michel Audiard. Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville directed Army of Shadows. After one of his four children, a daughter, was born handicapped, he and his wife founded a charity Perce-Neige (Snowdrop) which aids disabled children and their parents. He was voted 23rd in a poll for the 100 greatest Frenchmen.
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