Julien DuvivierFilmography

Born:: October 8, 1896 in Lille, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Briefly enrolled at the University in his home town of Lille, France, Julien Duvivier dropped out to study acting in Paris. Hired by Andre Antoine's Theatre Libre, Duvivier was retained as Antoine's assistant when the latter began directing films in 1916. After apprenticing under several notables...Read More

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Diaboliquement Votre

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Senta Berger, Alain Delon, Sergio Fantoni, Claude Piéplu, Peter Mosbacher

Synopsis: In his last film effort (he was killed in a car accident shortly after its completion), veteran French filmmaker Julien Duvivier manages to spin gold from dross in Diabolically Yours. Alain Delon stars as an amnesiac, unable to remember he is man of wealth, or where he keeps his wealth. The Read More

12/22/67
Paris When It Sizzles

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Noël Coward, Gregoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières, Christian Duvallex

Synopsis: Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie Read More

1964
Chair de Poule

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Hossein, Catherine Rouvel, Jean Sorel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: In this French crime drama, two safe-crackers are breaking into a safe when they are caught in the act by a guard. One of the crooks kills the guard and flees leaving his partner behind. The abandoned accomplice is captured and convicted. One year passes before the convict is able to escape from Read More

11/13/63
Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More

9/14/62
La Chambre ardente

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Perette Pradier, Nadja Tiller, Claude Rich

Synopsis: Set in an old German castle where an elderly paterfamilias lies on his deathbed, this conventional murder mystery by director Julien Duvivier has a veneer of the supernatural about it. As the heirs to the dying man's estate come together at the castle, a woman among them stands out for her Read More

3/7/62
Boulevard

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Magali Noël, Monique Brienne, Pierre Mondy, Jacques Duby

Synopsis: As in François Truffaut's award-winning first picture, 400 Blows, Jean-Pierre Leaud once again takes up the role of a besieged and troubled teen in Boulevard. But that ends the points of similarity between the dramas, since this is a routine and uneven film, not up to director Julien Duviver's Read More

1961
La Femme et le Pantin

Crew: Director

Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Antonio Vilar, Dario Moreno, Jess Hahn, Michel Roux, Jacques Mauclair

Synopsis: Brigitte Bardot was only twenty-four when she was featured in this typical sexual drama yet she was already a star on the international film scene. In this story she is Eva, a perfect blonde who has all the men in Seville, Spain chasing after her, though she is not interested in any of them. Even Read More

2/13/59
La Grande Vie

Crew: Director

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Agnes Fink, Gustav Knuth, Gert Fröbe

Synopsis: Beginning with the declassé premise of this ostensible, unconvincing slice-of-life comedy -- that the heroine's overriding objective in life is to find THE man for her -- French director Julien Duvivier already has problems. Doris (Giulietta Masina) is a woman not prone to deep thinking, whose Read More

1959
Marie-Octobre

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Serge Reggiani, Danielle Darrieux, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This suspensful drama finds ten members of the underground uniting fifteen years after the end of World War II. Nine men and a woman come together to expose a traitor among them. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1959
Pot-Bouille

Crew: Director

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Jacques Duby, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: The second of director Julien Duvivier's two cinematic contributions of 1957 was Pot-Bouille (Boiling
Pot). Based on a novel by Emile Zola, the film stars Gerard Philipe as Octave, an opportunistic Parisian youth who hops from bed to bed -- and from bedmate to bedmate. Young or old, plain or Read More

10/18/57
L'Homme à l'Imperméable

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernandel, Jean Rigaux, Bernard Blier, Jacques Duby, John McGiver

Synopsis: The raincoated gent of the title is horse-faced French comedian Fernandel, who plays luckless jazz musician Albert Constantin. Thanks to the chicanery of a slick gangster boss, Albert finds himself up to his ears in murder and treachery. The farcical elements of the film are juxtaposed with Read More

2/22/57
Voici le Temps des Assassins

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Robert Arnoux

Synopsis: Jean Gabin stars in Voici le Temps des Assassins as Chatelin, a soft-spoken, middle-aged restauranteur. His life is unexpectedly complicated when Catherine (Daniele Delorme), the daughter of his ex-wife, pays a visit. Catherine tells Chatelin that her mother is dead, and that she's all alone in Read More

1957
L'Affaire Maurizius

Crew: Director

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Charles Vanel, Daniel Gélin, Eleonora Rossi-Drago

6/4/54
Marianne de Ma Jeunesse

Crew: Director

Actors: Marianne Hold, Pierre Vaneck, Gil Vidal

Synopsis: Peter De Mendelssohn's novel Marianne of My Youth was the source for this mystical romantic drama. Marianne (Marianne Hold) is the Bavarian sweetheart of wealthy young Argentinian finishing-school student Vincent (Pierre Vaneck). Hero meets heroine when his schoolmates lock him in a crumbling Read More

1954
Le Retour de Don Camillo

Crew: Director

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Alexandre Rignault, Edouard Delmont

Synopsis: Retour de Don Camillo (The Return of Don Camillo) is the sequel to the internationally popular French comedy The Little World of Don Camillo. Fernandel returns as the title character, a resourceful, pugnacious Italian village priest. Because of his previous run-ins with communist mayor Peppone (Gino Cervi Read More

6/5/53
Il Ritorno di Don Camillo

Crew: Director

1953
On Trial

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this crime a district attorney's son investigates a suspicious conviction and learns a valuable lesson about the difference between justice and truth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1953
Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Franco Interlenghi, Vera Talqui, Sylvie

Synopsis: Orson Welles provides the voice of God in this farce starring Fernandel as Don Camillo, a vicar who causes trouble for the town's communist-leaning mayor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

3/15/52
La Fête à Henriette

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Auclair, Dany Robin, Hildegarde Neff, Michel Roux

Synopsis: Holiday for Henrietta (originally released in 1952 as La Fete a Henriette) is a Pirandellian comedy about the art of moviemaking. Louis Seigner and Henri Cremieux play a team of screenwriters whose latest project is stuck in a mire of indecision. Should fictional heroine Henriette (Dany Robin) be Read More

1952
Sous Le Ciel De Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Brigitte Auber, Jean Brochard, Christiane Lenier, René Blancard

Synopsis: Sous le Ciel de Paris was the second of director Julien Duvivier's brace of 1950 French films. In episodic fashion, the story follows the grim and bloody path trod by an unknown psycho killer. Duvivier cannily plays the film's melodrama against the glamorous backdrops of fin de siecle Paris Read More

1950
Jack, el Negro

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A French-American cooperative film about drug smuggling on the French Riviera. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1950
Blackjack

Crew: Director

Actors: George Sanders, Patricia Roc, Herbert Marshall, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Alternately titled Captain Black Jack, this Franco-American coproduction stars George Sanders as a sophisticated scoundrel living by his wits on the Riviera. Sanders lets those around him believe that he's a secret agent; actually he's a notorious drug smuggler known as Captain Black Jack. Herbert Marshall Read More

1949
Au Royaume des Cieux

Crew: Director

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Suzanne Cloutier, Suzy Prim, Jean Davy

Synopsis: French filmmaker Julien Duvivier had trouble regaining his popularity after the war; thus, he tried all sorts of subject matter, hoping to land the one plotline that would reap box-office success. In Au Royaume des Cieux, Duvivier aims his sights at a girl's reformatory. Falsely imprisoned after Read More

1949
Anna Karenina

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge

Synopsis: This 1948 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was produced in England by Alexander Korda, and released in the US by 20th Century-Fox. Vivien Leigh plays the title role, a 19th-century Russian gentlewoman married to Czarist official Ralph Richardson. Though her marriage is not intolerable Read More

1948
Panique

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Simon, Viviane Romance, Paul Bernard

Synopsis: For his first French film in nearly a decade (he'd spent the war years in Hollywood), filmmaker Julien Duvivier chose to adapt Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire, a novel by Georges Simenon. Panique, as Duvivier's version was titled, is a twisted tale of murder, subterfuge and revenge from "Beyond." Read More

1946
Strange Confession

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney plays an idealistic writer who allows himself to be used by a politically ambitious publishing mogul (J. Carroll Naish). Not only does the publisher distort the Read More

1944
The Impostor

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: The Impostor is one of French film favorite Jean Gabin's two wartime Hollywood vehicles. Adapted by Stephen Longstreet and Marc Connelly from a screenplay by director Julien Duvivier, the story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the Read More

1944
Destiny

Crew: Director

Actors: Gloria Jean, Alan Curtis, Frank Craven, Grace McDonald, Vivian Austin

Synopsis: When director Julien Duvivier's episodic, all-star drama Flesh and Fantasy proved a bit too long in previews, Universal decided to remove the film's opening segment, which dealt with the foredoomed romance between an escaped criminal and a blind girl. Because this segment was too good to waste Read More

1944
Flesh and Fantasy

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Carnival in Flanders and Tales of Manhattan, director Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy is a "pormanteau" film, consisting of several short stories. Linking the three tales unfolded herein are clubmen Doakes (Robert Benchley) and Davis (David Hoffman), who carry Read More

1943
The Heart of a Nation

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Suzy Prim, Raimu, Lucien Nat, Louis Jouvet, Renee Devillers

Synopsis: Heart of a Nation was filmed in 1940, just after the Nazi occupation of Paris. The film traces the fortunes of the Froment family of Montmartre, from the Franco-Prussian war of 1871 to World War II. Comedy and tragedy are deftly blended throughout; Raimu's visit to the Moulin Rouge is as hilarious Read More

1943
Tales of Manhattan

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton

Synopsis: Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage actor Charles Boyer, who wears it during a rendezvous with his lady friend (Rita Hayworth). The lady's husband (Thomas Mitchell) shoots Boyer, thus the tailcoat is damaged Read More

1942
Lydia

Crew: Director

Actors: Merle Oberon, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal, Joseph Cotten, Hans Yaray

Synopsis: Adapted from a French movie entitled Un Carnet de Bal, this is a story of love unrequited. In one of her best performances, Merle Oberon portrays an elderly woman who has spent her life waiting for a man whom she had a brief liaison with but who never returned for her as he had promised. Casting Read More

1941
La Charrette fantôme

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Le Vigan, Pierre Fresnay, Louis Jouvet, Micheline Francey

Synopsis: Previously filmed in Sweden by Victor Sjostrom in 1921, Selma Lagerloff's haunting fable The Death Cart was remade in 1940 by Julien Duvivier as La Charette Fantome. According to Scandinavian legend, whosoever dies on the stroke of Midnight on the last day of the year (St. Sylvester's Night) must Read More

1939
La Fin du Jour

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Simon, Madeleine Ozeray, Louis Jouvet, Gabrielle Dorziat, Victor Francen

Synopsis: This poignant drama peeks in at the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors' retirement home. The home is almost bankrupt and so the actors must support themselves. The residents include a faded sex symbol, an intellectual actor who kept a great distance between Read More

1939
The Great Waltz

Crew: Director

Actors: Luise Rainer, Fernand Gravey, Milza Korjus, Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill, Curt Bois

Synopsis: The Great Waltz was the first of two films bearing the same title which told the life story of Austrian "Waltz King" Johann Strauss. European singing sensation Fernard Gravet stars as Strauss, while MGM's two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer is top-billed as Poldi Vogelhuber. Poldi is the wife of Read More

1938
Un Carnet De Bal

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Françoise Rosay, Fernandel, Louis Jouvet, Pierre Blanchar, Pierre Richard-Willm

Synopsis: In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all of her former partners. Her search becomes the framework for the episodes. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1937
Pépé le Moko

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Line Noro, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio

Synopsis: Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows he is safe in this labyrinthine netherworld, where he is surrounded by his fellow thieves and cutthroats. Police inspector Slimane (Lucas Gridoux), who Read More

1937
Le Golem

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Germaine Aussey, Jany Holt, Ferdinand Hart, Harry Baur, Charles Dorat, Roger Karl, Roger Duchesne, Gaston Jacquet

Synopsis: Filmed in Czechoslovakia, this French-language adaptation of the oft-filmed Jewish folk tale The Golem was one of the most expensive productions ever made in that country. The story, which some have cited as a precursor to Frankenstein, is set in Prague's Jewish Ghetto. Fearing an anti-Semitic Read More

1936
La Belle Équipe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Viviane Romance, Charles Vanel, Jean Gabin, Charles Granval, Raymond Aimos

Synopsis: La Belle Equipe (The Good Crew) was the fourth of six smash hits in a row for director Julien Duvivier. The fortunes of five unemployed laborers take a radical turn for the better when they jointly win a 100,000-franc lottery prize. Jean Gabin, the self-appointed leader of the bunch, suggests that Read More

1936
Homme du Jour

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Elvire Popesco, Renee Devillers, Maurice Chevalier, Josette Day, Marcelle Geniat

Synopsis: Filmed in 1936 but not released in the US until 1940, Julien Duvivier's Man of the Hour (L'Homme du Jour) was, believe it or not, Maurice Chevalier's first French starring feature (all of his previous vehicles had been made in Hollywood or London). Chevalier plays a dual role: "Himself", the well Read More

1936
La Bandera

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean Gabin, Margo Lion, Annabella, Pierre Renoir, Robert Le Vigan

Synopsis: Less ambitious than his previous Golgotha, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera is nonetheless more entertaining. A Foreign Legion yarn, La Bandera downplays spectacular battle scenes in favor of a romantic triangle. Accused of murder, Pierre (Jean Gabin) joins the Legion, with detective Lucas (Robert Le Vigan Read More

1935
Golgotha

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Baur, Robert Le Vigan, Edwige Feuillère, Jean Gabin, Charles Granval, Juliette Verneuil, André Bacque

Synopsis: Julien Duvivier's most controversial production to date, 1935's Golgotha is an ambitious and expensive retelling of the Last Days of Jesus. Robert le Vigan plays the Son of God, but as often happens in films of this nature he is upstaged by the villains, Herod (Harry Baur), Pontius Pilate (Jean Gabin Read More

1935
Le Paquebot Tenacity

Crew: Director

Actors: Marie Glory, Albert Prejean

1934
Maria Chapdelaine

Crew: Director

Actors: Madeleine Renaud, Suzanne Desprès, Jean Gabin, Jean-Pierre Aumont, André Bacque

Synopsis: Also known as The Naked Heart, Maria Chapdelaine beautifully supports and sustains French filmmaker Julien Duvivier's gift for "poetic realism." At base, this is a simple 19th century romantic triangle. Canadian lass Madeline Renaud is adored with equal fervor by aristocratic Jean-Pierre Aumont Read More

1934
Les Cinq Gentlemen Maudits

Crew: Director

Actors: Rene Lefebvre, Rosine Derean, Mady Berry, Harry Baur, Robert Le Vigan, Georges Péclet

Synopsis: Les Cinq Gentlemen Maudits (The Five Accursed Gentlemen), Julien Duvivier's second talkie, was also the second in a series of five box-office hits for the prolific director. The scene is Morocco, where a local soothsayer predicts the death of five men. After three of the "cursed" quintet die under Read More

1933
Le Petit Roi

Crew: Director

Actors: Arlette Marchal, Robert Lynen, Jean Toulout

1933
Poil de Carotte

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Lynen, Catherine Fontenay, Louis Gauthier, Christiane Dor, Simone Aubry, Harry Baur

Synopsis: Adapted from various stories by Jules Renard, Poil de Carotte (The Red Head) is the poetically related tale of a delicate domestic situation. Robert Lynen plays the young son of Catherine Fourtenay. Fourtenay's husband Harry Baur knows that Lynen is not his son, but remains married for Read More

12/7/32
La Tete D'Un Homme

Crew: Director

Actors: Gina Manès, Harry Baur, Valery Inkijinoff

1932
David Golder

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Monnier, Paule Andral, Harry Baur, Jean Coquelin

Synopsis: Director Julien Duvivier's first talking picture, David Golder was based on a novel by Irene Nemirowsky. Harry Baur plays the title character, a poor but enterprising Polish Jew who re-invents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. Now a millionaire, Golder relocates to Paris, while his Read More

1932
Allo Berlin? Ici Paris!

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Josette Day, Karel Stepanek, Germaine Aussey

Synopsis: The second of director Julien Duvivier's sound pictures, Hier Spricht Berlin was also released as Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! Two male telephone operators from Berlin fall in love with two female receptionists in Paris, even though they've never met. After carrying on a "courtship by wire" for several Read More

1931
Maman Colibri

Crew: Director

Actors: Maria Jacobini, Jean Dax

1929
Au Bonheur des Dames

Crew: Director

Actors: Dita Parlo, Pierre de Guingand

Synopsis: Made at the dawn of the sound era, this long-forgotten feature from legendary director Julien Duvivier marked the filmmaker's last silent work. An adaptation of Emile Zola's 1883 novel of the same name, it stars French screen siren Dita Parlo as Denise, an orphaned woman who relocates to the City Read More

1929
La Vie Miraculeuse de Therese Martin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simone Bourday

1929
Le Tourbillon De Paris

Crew: Director

Actors: Lil Dagover, Gina Barbieri, Leon Bary, Gaston Jacquet

1928
La Divine Croisiere

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Suzanne Christy, Jean Murat, Thomy Bourdelle

Synopsis: The first of Julien Duvivier's four directorial efforts of 1929 was the mystical drama The Divine Cruise (La Divine Croisiere). Although the dilapidated sailing vessel Cordiliere is hardly seaworthy, it is ordered back in commission by its greedy owner. Fearing for their lives, the crew members Read More

1928
Le Mariage De Mademoiselle Beulemans

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzanne Christy

1927
Le Mystère De La Tour Eiffel

Crew: Director

Actors: Felicien Tramel, Gaston Jacquet

1927
L'Homme à L'Hispano

Crew: Director

Actors: Huguette Duflos, Madeleine Rodrigue, Acho Chakatouny

1926
L'Agonie De Jerusalem

Crew: Director

Actors: Edmond van Daele, Maurice Schutz

1926
Poil De Carotte

Crew: Director

1925
L'Abbe Constantin

Crew: Director

Actors: Claude France, Jean Coquelin

1925
Coeurs Farouches

Crew: Director

Actors: Gaston Jacquet, Rolla Norman

1923
Credo Ou La Tragedie De Lourdes

Crew: Director

Actors: Henry Krauss, Gaston Jacquet

1923
Le Reflet De Claude Mercoeur

Crew: Director

Actors: Maud Richard, Gaston Jacquet

1923
Les Roquevillard

Crew: Director

Actors: Maxime des Jardins, Edmond van Daele

1922
L'Ouragan Sur La Montagne

Crew: Director

Actors: Gaston Jacquet

1922
Haceldama

Crew: Director

Actors: Camille Bert, Severin-Mars

1919

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