Marcel Duhamel
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Marcel Duhamel (16 July 1900 in Paris – 6 March 1977 in Saint-Laurent-du-Var) was a French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint.
He played The Foreman in Jean Renoir's 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange.
In 1953 he was credited as screenplay writer for This Man Is Dangerous, a French film adaptation of Peter Cheyney's novel of the same name.
He translated[1] and published Jim Thompson's 1964 pulp novel Pop. 1280 as 1275 Âmes ("souls") in French in 1966.[2] Thereafter, the book was transposed to French colonial Africa in Bertrand Tavernier's film Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) in 1981.
Selected filmography[]
- Ciboulette (1933)
- Moutonnet (1936)
- Crossroads (1938)
- The Emigrant (1940)
- Tobias Is an Angel (1940)
- Remorques (1941)
- Strange Inheritance (1943)
- This Man Is Dangerous (1953)
- Interpol Against X (1960)
References[]
- ^ Amazon page, Gallimard ed. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
- ^ "Black series", Retrieved 2011-02-14.[better source needed]
External links[]
Categories:
- 1900 births
- 1977 deaths
- Male actors from Paris
- French male film actors
- 20th-century French male actors
- 20th-century screenwriters
- French film actor stubs
- Screenwriter stubs