Michel Audiard (of his name complet' Pierre Michel Audiard' ), (Paris, May 15th 1920 - Dourdan, July 28th 1985), is a dialogist and a Réalisateur French of Cinéma.

Taking as a starting point the gouaille of the Parisian people, the dialogs of Michel Audiard constitute one of best testimonys (with the slogans of May 68) of irreverence detached specific to the years 1960. Often qualified anarchistic of right-hand side, one of the only regrets that one knows to him is not to have had time to adapt to the screen Voyage at the end of the night of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. He is the father of the dialogist and realizer Jacques Audiard.

Biography

He is born the May 15th 1920, to the 2 of the street Brézin, in the 14 {{E}} district of Paris, popular quarters at the time, where he is raised by his godfather. He continues there without much interest of the studies which carry out it to a certificate of studies and a CAPE of welder to the autogenous one. Impassioned very young person of literature and cinema, it forges a solid culture by reading in particular Rimbaud, Proust and Céline, and discovers the dialogs of Jeanson and Prévert. Also impassioned bicycle, he trails side of the Vélodrome of winter where he meets André Pousse that he will introduce later into the trade of actor. Thinking a time to make career in the bicycle, it gives up it however because it “did not assemble the coasts”. The Second world war, in which it does not take part, is for him one period of deprivations and the release, the spectacle of sad settlings of score.

The shortly after the war, it lives sparely as deliveryman of newspapers what enables him to approach the medium of journalism. It enters thus with the Evening star where it begins a series of articles on Asia written on the counters of the Parisian bars. The discovery of imposture being worth to him to be quickly thanked, it becomes critical then for Cinévie . In 1949, the realizer Andre Hunebelle the fact of entering the cinema world by ordering the scenario of a police film to him Mission to Tangier , followed soon by two other films, three detective novels, and the first successes of adaptation of novels to the cinema (the Pass-wall, the Three Musketeers) . Its notoriety extends and, in 1955, it is the meeting with Jean Gabin to which he proposes the scenario of Gas-oil . Thus begins a seven years collaboration and sixteen films, several of them great success (the Big families, Old men of the old woman, the Baron of the lock, a monkey in winter) , and who only stopped little (Babette is gone-T from there war, a taxi for Tobrouk) .

Michel Audiard is now a popular scenario writer, which attracts to him the lightnings of the young scenario writers of the New wave for which it symbolizes the " cinema of papa". In 1963, after being itself a little annoyed with Jean Gabin, he writes for Jean-Paul Belmondo ( {{formatnum: 100000}} dollars with the sun of Henri Verneuil) and a whole team of talented actors: Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Jean Lefebvre etc ( the Uncles flingueurs and the Secret agents of Georges Lautner). But the fachery with Jean Gabin does not last and they find in 1967 for the Pasha and will collaborate still occasionally ( Under the sign of the bull of Gilles Grangier).

In 1966, it starts a career of realizer and turns of the films whose titles are among longest of the French cinema (She does not drink, she does not smoke, she does not dredge, but… she causes, Faut not to take the children of the good god for wild ducks) . But after eight films and documentary, whose successes remain poor, it returns to its true vocation.

The January 19th 1975, whereas he works with the realizer Philippe de Broca with the scenario of Incorrigible the , he is touched by the news of died hard of his/her Francois, son killed in an car accident. It will preserve of it a deep sadness which will give from now on to its work a darker tonality ( Police custody and Mortelle excursion of Claude Miller), even if it in addition continues to take part in large popular successes (the Great bean-pole, Tendre chicken, Guignolo, the Professional, Canicule) . In 1978, it publishes a partly autobiographical novel the night, the day, and all the other nights , for which it will receive the Prix of the Four jurys. It obtains finally the recognition of its pars by gaining the César better scenario in 1982 for Police custody .

He dies the July 28th 1985 in his house of Dourdan.

Works

Novels

  • Priez for it (Black River, 1950)
  • Méfiez of the blondes (Black River, 1950)
  • Massacre out of laces (Black River, 1952)
  • we do not annoy (Plon, 1966)
  • the Terminus of the pretentious (Plon, 1968)
  • My little book red (Pocket Presses, 1969)
  • Vive France (Julliard, 1973)
  • the Small old lag (Julliard, 1975)
  • Repeats a little what you have just said (Julliard, 1975)
  • the Night, the day and all the other nights (Denoël, 1978)

Dialogs and scenarios

(films whose Michel Audiard signed scenario and/or dialogs)

Years 1940 - 1950

Years 1960

Years 1970

Years 1980

Catalog of films as an actor

Achievements, dialogs and scenarios

(films whose Michel Audiard signed scenario realization and dialogs)

Notes and refer

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