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Jacques Poitrenaud

Jacques Poitrenaud

Jacques Poitrenaud

1922-05-22

Lille, France

DIRECTING

Biography

Jacques Poitrenaud (22 May 1922, Lille – died 2 April 2005, Paris) was a French film director and actor. He was a director and assistant director, known for Stranger from Hong-Kong (1963), Le canard en fer blanc (1967) and Mendiants et Orgueilleux (1972). He died on April 2, 2005 in Poissy, Yvelines, France.

Best known for:

Three Men and a Cradle

'Round Midnight

Blood and Roses

A Mouse with the Men

La Parisienne

Paris Is Always Paris

Life Together

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

Sweet Skin

Tales of Paris

Under Your Hat

Trouble Among Widows

The Marriage Came Tumbling Down

Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!

Le canard en fer blanc

Clara and the Villains

L'inconnue de Hong Kong

Four Queens for an Ace

Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?

Je suis Pierre Rivière

The Door Slams

Paris Loves

Arrabal

Beggars and Proud Ones

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Filmography:

Paris Is Always Paris (1951)
WORK AS:
Editor
La Parisienne (1957)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Life Together (1958)
WORK AS:
First Assistant Director
Clara and the Villains (1958)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
The Door Slams (1960)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Blood and Roses (1960)
WORK AS:
Assistant Director
Paris Loves (1961)
WORK AS:
Director
Tales of Paris (1962)
WORK AS:
Director

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Sweet Skin (1963)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
L'inconnue de Hong Kong (1963)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
A Mouse with the Men (1964)
WORK AS:
Director
Trouble Among Widows (1964)
WORK AS:
Director
Under Your Hat (1965)
WORK AS:
Director
Four Queens for an Ace (1966)
WORK AS:
Director, Adaptation
Le canard en fer blanc (1967)
WORK AS:
Director
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down (1968)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer

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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ? (1971)
WORK AS:
Director
Beggars and Proud Ones (1972)
WORK AS:
Director
Je suis Pierre Rivière (1976)
WORK AS:
Production Director
Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! (1982)
APPEREAD AS:
Production manager
Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
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APPEREAD AS:
First cop

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