René Wheeler

René Wheeler (8 February 1912 - 11 December 2000) was a French screenwriter^[1] and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales (1945) with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus (2004). Wheeler also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1955 heist film Rififi.^[1]

Selected filmography[]

• Moutonnet (1936)
• Night Warning (1946)
• The Winner's Circle (1950)
• The Love of a Woman (1953)
• Rififi (1955)
• The Restless and the Damned (1959)
• A Woman in White (1965)

References[]

External links[]

• René Wheeler at IMDb

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