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Jacques Tourneur
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Director Born: November 12, 1904 in Paris, France Death: December 19, 1977 in Bergerac, France Biography:A resident of the United States from the age of ten, "Jacques Tourneur" became one of America's leading directors of horror and film noir, after a long apprenticeship. The son of the celebrated director "Maurice Tourneur", he went to work at MGM as an office boy and subsequently became a script clerk on his father's movies, and returned to France as his father's editor in 1928. Tourneur made his debut as a director in France in 1931, but found, upon returning to Hollywood four years later, that there was no work for him in this capacity. He worked for "David O. Selznick" as a second-unit director on "A Tale of Two Cities", in partnership with writer "Val Lewton", and eventually moved back into the director's chair in short subjects and very low budget B pictures. In 1942, Lewton put together a low-budget horror production unit at RKO and arranged for Tourneur to direct the first two entries, "Cat... Full Biography
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