Andre Weinfeld

André Weinfeld is a Réalisateur, Scénariste of Cinéma, Journaliste and Photographe French.

After studies with the Louis-the-Large College, a baccalaureat of mathematics with mention and a license of Modern Letters to the Sorbonne, it is received major of its promotion (at the 19 years age) to the entrance examination of the Institute of the High Cinematographic Studies (IDHEC).

In 1965 and 1966, André Weinfeld collaborates, as a director of the photograph and an operator cameraman, with several films of the New wave, courts and full-length films. Very quickly, one calls upon him like deferring cameraman to take part in the news magazines of the two French chains of Télévision, TF1 and Antenne 2.

One year later, it becomes, at 20 years, youngest producing Réalisateur/ of Télévision in France, initially committed by the producers André Harris and Alain de Sédouy (authors of the documentary film Sorrow and pity ) for their news magazines Zoom , 16 million young people and Red Bouton , first emission of Rock' N Roll on television French in 1967, that it by-product with Michel Taittinger and Jean-Pierre Fraimbois. It covers Woodstock, works with the largest stars of the music of the time, inter alia: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Johnny Hallyday, Beatles, Janis Joplin, The Who, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Eric Burdon, Wilson Pickett, Steve Winwood, Pink Floyd, Donovan, James Brown…

As a realizer and large To defer, André Weinfeld is diverted for a time of the music to devote itself then (during 7 years) to the realization of more than fifty reports of topicality (one duration from 20 to 90 minutes) out of the three television channels for, inter alia, Panorama , the Third Eye , Satellite , 52 , or Plein Framework , covering subjects as various as the fashion, the social subjects and policies both in France and abroad (like the Palestinian refugees , the immigrant workers, the Movement of the American Indians, the conferences in top, Interview S and portraits of Heads of States), and several other great reports of war as a special correspondent in Israel, Syria and Lebanon during the War of Kippour in 1973.

After having been useful under the weapons during one year as a Realizer with the Cinematographic Service of the Armies (ECPAD), and to have carried out several documentary films and of fiction there, André Weinfeld moves away from television to put in scene its first short-measuring of fiction: the Good news (with Mary Marquet, Claude Chabrol, Michel Duchaussoy, Daniel Prévost, Christian Rist and Christine Boisson, preceded by the National center of cinematography, with the International festival of the Cinema of London, distributed in France by Warner-Columbia.

He collaborates thereafter, as a Scénariste and dialogist, with several French directors of which Yves Boisset (for the successful film the Key on the door , with Annie Girardot and Patrick Dewaëre).

In 1977, after having met the American actress of cinema Raquel Welch at the time of the turning of the film the Animal (with Jean-Paul Belmondo), it moves with Los Angeles to join it, and creates its first production company, while continuing to write several other American and French scenarios.

Married to Raquel Welch in 1980, Andre Weinfeld produced, conceives and written From Raquel with coils , a show of varieties for the American television channel ABC which beats all the records of TV rating, as well as the spectacles “live” of Raquel with Las Vegas and Atlantic City, by-product during one year with Broadway the musical comedy with success the woman of the year and continues the realization, the production and the distribution of four programs of exercise and yoga which will make the Signal 10 Platinum of the video sales to the the United States and who will be distributed in the whole world.

As a professional Photographer, he saw his photographs published in the whole world, through the services of the agency Sygma, on the covers and in the pages of Life Magazine , Newsweek , Time , Vogue , Harper' S Bazaar , Cosmopolitain , Playboy Magazine , Paris-Maths , It , Bunte … Its photographs were selected to represent the company of professional cameras Hasselblad at the time of one of their recent international publicity campaign.

Andre Weinfeld, now divorced, division henceforth its time enters the France and the the United States. He was the longest husband of Raquel Welch (grooms during 9 years). He had a son with his second wife of which he is divorced, the son naming Zachary Weinfeld. He lives with him in Paris.

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