Jean Rabier (16 March 1927 – 15 February 2016) was a French

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who frequently worked with director

Claude Chabrol Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues an ...

. He had almost 70 film credits spanning a career from 1961–1991. He died on 15 February 2016 at the age of 88.Jean Rabier obituary
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Selected filmography

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Madame Bovary ''Madame Bovary'' (; ), originally published as ''Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners'' ( ), is a novel by France, French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities ...

'' (1991) * '' Dr. M'' (1990) * '' Jours tranquilles à Clichy'' (''Quiet Days in Clichy'') (1990) * ''

Une affaire de femmes ''Story of Women'' (french: Une affaire de femmes) is a 1988 French drama film directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the true story of Marie-Louise Giraud, guillotined on 30 July 1943 for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area, and t ...

'' (''Story of Women'') (1988) * '' Le Cri du hibou'' (''The Cry of the Owl'') (1987) * ''

Masques The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant). A masque ...

'' (''Masks'') (1987) * ''

Inspecteur Lavardin ''Inspecteur Lavardin'' is a 1986 crime film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol. It is the sequel to his 1984 film ''Chicken with Vinegar, Cop au vin''. Synopsis The Eponym, titular inspector travels to a small coastal town to investigate t ...

'' (1986) * ''

Poulet au vinaigre ''Cop au Vin'' (french: Poulet au vinaigre) is a 1985 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. The original French title is a pun: it literally means "vinegar chicken," but "poulet" is als ...

'' (''Chicken with Vinegar'') (1985) * ''

Les Fantômes du chapelier ''The Hatter's Ghost'' (french: "Les fantômes du chapelier") is a 1982 film directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the 1947 story ''Le Petit Tailleur et le Chapelier'' by Georges Simenon. It takes place in Brittany and was shot in the towns of ...

'' (''The Hatters's Ghost'') (1982) * '' Le Cheval d'orgueil'' (''The Proud Ones'' / ''The Horse of Pride'') (1980) * ''

Violette Nozière ''Violette Nozière'' is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encou ...

'' (''Violette'') (1978) * '' Les Liens de sang'' (''Blood Relatives'') (1978) * '' Alice ou la dernière fugue'' (''Alice'' / ''Alice or The Last Escapade'') (1977) * '' Folies bourgeoises'' (''The Twist'') (1976) * '' Les Magiciens'' (''Death Rite'') (1976) * '' Les Innocents aux mains sales'' (''Dirty Hands'' / ''Innocents with Dirty Hands'') (1975) * ''

Une partie de plaisir Une partie de plaisir (A Piece of Pleasure) is a 1975 French film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring its screenwriter and longtime Chabrol collaborator Paul Gégauff. In the film, Gégauff plays a writer with a troubled marriage that ends i ...

'' (''A Piece of Pleasure'' / ''Pleasure Party'') (1975) * ''

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'' (''The Nada Gang'') (1974) * '' Les Noces rouges'' (''Wedding in Blood'') (1973) * '' Docteur Popaul'' (''Scroundel in White'' / ''High Heels'' / ''Play Now, Play Later'') (1972) * '' La Décade prodigieuse'' (''Ten Days Wonder'') (1971) * '' Juste avant la nuit'' (''Just Before Nightfall'') (1971) * ''

Cold Sweat "Cold Sweat" is a song performed by James Brown and written with his bandleader Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis. Brown recorded it in May 1967. An edited version of "Cold Sweat" released as a two-part single on King Records was a No. 1 R&B hit, and reac ...

'' (1970) * '' La Rupture'' (''The Breach'' / ''Hallucination'' / ''The Breakup'') (1970) * ''

Le Boucher ''Le Boucher'' ( en, The Butcher) is a 1970 French psychological thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Set in the village of Trémolat on the river Dordogne, it tells the story of a deeply troubled butcher (Jean Yanne) who falls ...

'' (''The Butcher'') (1970) * '' Que la bête meure'' (''This Man Must Die'') (1969) * '' La Femme infidèle'' (''The Unfaithful Wife'') (1969) * ''

Les Biches ''Les biches'' () ("The Hinds" or "The Does", or "The Darlings") is a one-act ballet to music by Francis Poulenc, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska and premiered by the Ballets Russes on 6 January 1924 at the Salle Garnier in Monte Carlo. Nij ...

'' (''The Does'' / ''Bad Girls'' / ''Girlfriends'') (1968) * '' La Route de Corinthe'' (''The Road to Corinth'') (1967) * '' Le Scandale'' (''The Champagne Murders'') (1967) * '' La Ligne de démarcation'' (''Line of Demarcation'') (1966) * ''

Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite ''Le tigre se parfume à la dynamite'' (''Our Agent Tiger'') is a 1965 secret agent spy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring and written by Roger Hanin as the Tiger. It is a sequel to the 1964 film ''Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche''.Blake, ...

'' (''An Orchid for the Tiger'' / ''Our Agent Tiger'') (1965) * ''

Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha ''Marie-Chantal contre le docteur Kha'', also known as ''Blue Panther'', is a 1965 spy film directed by Claude Chabrol. based on the character in a series of novels by Jacques Chazot. Plot The French It girl Marie-Chantal gets accidentally enta ...

'' (''Marie-Chantal vs. Doctor Kha'') (1965) * '' Paris vu par...'' (''Six in Paris'') (segment ''La Muette'') (1965) * '' Le Tigre aime la chair fraîche'' (''Code Name: Tiger'' / ''The Tiger Likes Fresh Meat'') (1964) * ''

Les parapluies de Cherbourg ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (french: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) is a 1964 musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music and lyrics by Michel Legrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young lov ...

'' (''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'') (1964) * ''

Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du monde ''The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers'' (French: ''Les plus belles escroqueries du monde'') is a 1964 film composed of five segments, each of which was created with a different set of writers, directors, and actors. Cast *Mie Hama as Bar Hostess ...

'' (''The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers'') (segment ''L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel'') (1964) * '' Ophélia'' (1963) * ''

La Baie des Anges ''Bay of Angels'' (french: La baie des anges) is a 1963 French film directed by Jacques Demy. Starring Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann, it is Demy's second film and deals with the subject of gambling. Costumes by Pierre Cardin. Plot Jean is a q ...

(Bay of Angels)'' (1963) * '' Landru'' (''Bluebeard'') (1963) * '' L'Œil du Malin'' (''The Eye of Evil'') (1962) * '' Cléo de 5 à 7'' (''Cléo from 5 to 7'') (1962) * ''

Les Sept Péchés capitaux ''Les Sept péchés capitaux'' is a 1962 French film composed of seven different segments, one for each of the seven deadly sins, each being by different directors and featuring different casts. At the time it served as a showcase for rising dire ...

'' (''The Seven Deadly Sins'') (segment ''L'Avarice'') (1962) * '' Les Godelureaux'' (''Wise Guys'') (1961) * ''

Le Beau Serge ''Le Beau Serge'' (, literal English translation: "Handsome Serge") is a 1958 French film directed by Claude Chabrol. It has been cited as the first product of the Nouvelle Vague, or French New Wave, film movement. The film is often compared with ...

'' (''Handsome Serge'' / ''Bitter Reunion'') (1958) — also with

Henri Decaë Henri Decaë (31 July 1915 – 7 March 1987) gained fame as a cinematographer entering the film industry as a sound engineer and sound editor. He was a photojournalist in the French army during World War II. After the war he began making document ...

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