Jacques Ertaud

Jacques Ertaud (born the November 18th 1924 with Paris, dead on November 18th 1995 in Paris) is a scenario writer, an explorer and a sportsman French.

Biography

Having lost his very young father, Jacques (known as Jackie) Ertaud became a little the godson of the speleologist Raymond Gaché. After the Second world war (Ertaud engages at the end of the war), Marcel Ichac, old friend of Raymond Gaché since the Groupe of Bleau, initiates Ertaud with the Cinéma. Ertaud begin with tasks from post-production from the film Tempête on the Alps in 1945. Jacques Ertaud will explain: “Marcel Ichac was my Master. It is with him that I began in the trade in September 1945… soon 50 years. He very learned to me: the catch of sight, the assembly, the sound recording, the writing of a film, the choice of the musics. He was a true craftsman, with large has, able to entirely make a film without the assistance of anybody. It was for me a marvellous school. All the films which I could make since (nearly a hundred), documentary or fictions, take as a starting point what " Matha" taught me during the eight years when I be likely to be its assistant. ” ( Good-bye Matha , Jacques Ertaud, Mountain Magazine , n°171, June? 1994).

Working with Marcel Ichac, Jacques Ertaud devoted initially himself to documentary films of exploration and Alpinisme and integrated the teams of friends of Marcel Ichac in which it flew of his own wings:

• Speleologist: first speleologist to be remained more than ten days consecutive under ground with the Pit of Holy Pierre Martin, participation into 1948,1949 and 1962 with explorations of the Pit of Padirac directed by Guy de Lavaur;
• plunger submarine (on Calypso of the Commander Cousteau with which he worked five years);
• skier (first downhill run of the northern face of Mont Blanc with Lionel Terray);
• mountaineer (rise of Taboche (6.750 m) last virgin top of the massive of the Himalayas, climbing in the Hoggar, etc);

Jacques Ertaud travelled and explored the Belgian Congo, the Ad3elie coast with Paul-Emile Victor, the coast of Arabia with Haroun Tazieff, the Amazonia, the Kampuchea, the Mexico, etc He filmed great moments of the sport: the Tour de France cyclist, the Winter Olympics of 1960 with Squaw Valley (California), the Olympic Games of Grenoble in 1968, the Team of France of Athletics in Europe (1963), the Marathon of New York, etc

Thereafter, it carried out many series for the television of which Maria Vandamme . It however showed a certain predilection for the detective series.

Catalog of films

• First of cord (1999). Film TV (scenario, posthumous work).
• Swedish Matches (1996). Serial TV.
• the billionaire (1994). Film TV.
• One day before the paddle (1994). Film TV.
• Catherine Courage (1993). Film TV.
• Concerto for Guillaume (1993). Episode of the series TV Instit.
• Sun of autumn (1992). Film TV (scenario, dialogs and music).
• High voltage - Return to Malaveil (1989). Film TV.
• Navarro (series TV): episodes Died of a bastard and Bloody nostalgia (1989).
• Maria Vandamme (1989). Serial TV. Rewarded by two gold Seven in 1990.
• the price for silence (1989). Film TV. Rewarded by two gold Seven in 1989. With Claude Brasseur. The history of resistant which spoke under the constraint. “The Price of silence” obtained the price of international Criticism to the International festival of Monte Carlo 1990
• the time of Anaïs , episode of the series TV the Hour Simenon (1987). (scenario and setting in scene).
• the large kid (1985). Film TV.
• Pity for the rats (1985). Film TV.
• Black series (1984). Series TV.
• Earth and the mill (1984). Serial TV.
• Clipperton: island of Loneliness (1981). Documentary of the series the underwater Odyssey of the Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau );
• Without family (1981). Serial TV.
• the stupid age (1980). Film TV.
• does not cry (1978) (adaptation and dialogs).
• promised sea (1977). Film TV.
• death in love (1977). Film TV.
• a walk in forest , episode of the series TV Police chief Mill (1976).
• Died of a guide (1975). Film TV. One of the chiefs of works of Jacques Ertaud.
• the line of demarcation (1973). Series TV adapted of the work of the Colonel Rémy.
• the Tile with wolves (1972). Film TV.
• Strong François or life of the others (1971). Series TV.
• Kaleidoscope or Kaleidoski (1970) (with Rene Vernadet). Film presented to the Cannes festival.
• the Man of Picardy (1968). Serial TV.
• Appointments of the summer (1966), realized with Raymond Zumstein. Film presented to the Cannes festival 1966.
• the link and the chain (1963) realized with Bernard Gorski. Film selected with the Oscars, coproduit by Marcel Ichac.
• Lives the turn (1962). Co-realized with Louis Malle.
• total Ski (1962), corealized with Marcel Ichac.
• Film in the Pit of Padirac intended for the magazine televised Slides of the exploit (1962).
• Stars of midday (1958), corealized with Marcel Ichac, Grand Prix of the French cinema 1959.
• Galère absorbed (1957) realized with Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
• Participation in the World of silence (1956) of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
• One condemned to dead is escaped (1956), realized by Robert Bresson. Jacques Ertaud is actor there.
• the Fountain of Vaucluse (1955), Co-realized with Louis Malle.
• Padirac, river of the night (1948) with Marcel Ichac and the brothers Net.

See too

Related articles

• Marcel Ichac

External bonds

• Jacques Ertaud in Internet Movie Database

• a personal site: