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René Clair
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: November 11, 1898 in Paris, France Death: March 15, 1981 in Neuilly, France Biography:In 1920 René-Lucien Chomette began acting in films under the name "René Clair". He performed in "Louis Feuillade"'s 1921 serials "L'Orpheline" and "Parisette", but in 1924 he began writing and directing his own films with the comic fantasy "Paris Qui Dort" ("The Crazy Ray"). Through the '20s "Clair" would make some of the most original and admired works of early French cinema, including the avant-garde short "Entr'acte", the landmark early musicals "Sous Les Toits De Paris" and "Le Million", and the classic satire "A Nous La Liberté". Working in England and the United States during the 1930s and '40s, his films were dominated (sometimes overly so) by fantasy and whimsy, but he managed to inject some healthy venom into the "Agatha Christie" mystery "And Then There Were None". He returned to Europe for his films of the 1950s and '60s, most notably "La Beauté Du Diable" ("Beauty And The Devil") and "Les... Full Biography
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