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Jacques Feyder: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Jacques Frédérix
Born July 21, 1888 • Ixelles • Belgium
Died May 24, 1948 (aged 59) • Switzerland

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Jacques Feyder
Greta Garbo in a velvet dress reclines on a sofa, gazing thoughtfully upward, in a scene from the 1929 silent film The Kiss.
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Albert Lewin
American producer, screenwriter, and director
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard
French Swiss film director
Alejandro Jodorowsky, with white hair and beard, wearing a dark sweater, smiles in front of a blue and red background at an event in 2017.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
French filmmaker
Germaine Dulac
Germaine Dulac
French filmmaker
French director Francois Truffaut stands at right speaking with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve during filming of La Sirene du Mississippi on a city street.
François Truffaut
French director
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
French director
lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
Jacques Tourneur
French-American director
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais
French film director
Roman Polanski in a close-up portrait, wearing a white collared shirt and dark jacket, smiling slightly at the Cannes Film Festival.
Roman Polanski
Polish film director
Jean Cocteau, 1939.
Jean Cocteau
French poet and artist
René Clair
René Clair
French director
Lanzmann, Claude: Shoah
Claude Lanzmann
French writer and film director
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt
French-born American photographer and filmmaker
Rohmer, Eric
Éric Rohmer
French director
Jacques Audiard
Jacques Audiard
French director and screenwriter
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Musidora
French actress and director
Robert Bresson, 1951.
Robert Bresson
French director
Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Guy-Blaché
French film director
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Marcel Carné
French director
Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras
French director