Jean Delannoy(1908-2008)
- Director
- Writer
- Editor
Jean Delannoy began his film career in the 1920s as an actor. By the
1930s he had switched careers and become an editor, then a
short-subjects director. By the mid-'30s he was a full-fledged
director, and soon garnered a reputation as a sensitive, understated
craftsman with a thorough command of the medium. By the 1950s, however,
he was doing overheated melodramas and overblown epics, including a
particularly undistinguished version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Notre-Dame de Paris (1956)),
and he was soon reduced to churning out such drivel as
Le Soleil des voyous (1967)
(US title: "Action Man") and
Le Lit à 2 places (1965)
(US title: "The Double Bed").
