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Jean-Pierre Melville
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: October 20, 1917 in Paris, France Death: August 2, 1973 in Paris, France Biography:Jean-Pierre Melville (born Jean-Pierre Grumbach) was an amateur filmmaker as a teenager who, after the start of World War II, began making his own independent short and feature films. He hit his stride in the '50s with his memorable adaptation of "Jean Cocteau"'s novel, Les Enfants Terribles, and, over the next 20 years, specialized in intelligent and exciting crime films, most notably Bob le Flambeur, "Le Doulos" (aka "The Finger Man"), Le Samouraï, "Le Cercle Rouge", and "Un Flic". Melville also acted in his own "Deux Hommes Dans Manhattan", as well as Cocteau's "Orphee", "Jean-Luc Godard"'s À Bout de Souffle (aka "Breathless"), and "Claude Chabrol"'s "Landru" (aka "Bluebeard"). He died in 1973. ~ All Movie Guide
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