Jean-Pierre Melville

ActorWriterCrewDirectorEditor Oct 20 (died age 55) Paris, France 1946–2024 (78 year career)

6.9 avg rating

Biography

Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969)…

Known For

Film

Breathless

Parvulesco the Writer

Film

Le Samouraï

Director

Film

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Thanks

Film

Army of Shadows

Director

Film

Le Cercle Rouge

Director

Film

Orpheus

Hotel Manager (uncredited)

Film

Le Doulos

Director

Film

Bob le Flambeur

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (23)

Movies (21)

Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs

2024

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Les Rois de la comédie

2023

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Belmondo: The Incorrigible

2022

8.2

Melville, le dernier samouraï

2020

as (archives)

7.4

Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau

2019

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Lino Ventura, la part intime

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.9

Belmondo, le magnifique

2017

as Self (archive footage)

7.4

Melville-Delon: Honor and Night

2011

as Self (archive footage)

Code Name: Melville

2010

as Self (archive footage)

6.7

Urgent ou à quoi bon exécuter des projets puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante

1977

as Self (archive footage)

5.5

Jean-Pierre Melville: Portrait in 9 Poses

1971

as Himself

7.2

Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle

1966

as Self - Interviewee

Bluebeard

1963

as Clemenceau's Aide

6.4

Sign of the Lion

1962

as Un Consommateur (uncredited)

7.1

Le Combat dans l'île

1962

as Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)

6.7

Breathless

1960

as Parvulesco the Writer

Two Men in Manhattan

as Moreau

A Girl in a Pocket

as Commissioner

Bob le Flambeur

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

7.3

Orpheus

1950

as Hotel Manager (uncredited)

7.6

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

1946

as Narrator (uncredited)

6.2

Television (2)

Midi trente

1972

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Cinépanorama

1956

as Self

8.0

Crew (41)

Movies (41)

Short Cuts : Le Cercle rouge de Jean-Pierre Melville

Original Film Writer

Thlípsi

Thanks

Their First Films

Director

The Good Thief

2003

Original Film Writer

6.1

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Thanks

A Cop

Director

A Cop

Writer

Le Cercle Rouge

Director

Le Cercle Rouge

Editor

Le Cercle Rouge

Writer

Army of Shadows

Director

Army of Shadows

Screenplay

Le Samouraï

Director

Le Samouraï

Screenplay

Le Deuxième Souffle

Director

Le Deuxième Souffle

Writer

Magnet of Doom

Dialogue

Magnet of Doom

Director

Magnet of Doom

Screenplay

Le Doulos

Director

Le Doulos

Screenplay

Léon Morin, Priest

Director

Léon Morin, Priest

Writer

Two Men in Manhattan

Director

Bob le Flambeur

Director

Bob le Flambeur

Producer

Bob le Flambeur

Writer

When You Read This Letter

1953

Director

5.7

When You Read This Letter

Producer

The Strange Ones

Director

The Strange Ones

Producer

The Strange Ones

Production Design

The Strange Ones

Writer

The Silence of the Sea

1949

Adaptation

7.5

The Silence of the Sea

1949

Director

7.5

The Silence of the Sea

1949

Editor

7.5

The Silence of the Sea

1949

Executive Producer

7.5

The Silence of the Sea

1949

Screenplay

7.5

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

1946

Director

6.2

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

1946

Producer

6.2

24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

1946

Screenplay

6.2