Marcel Duhamel (16 July 1900 in
Paris
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– 6 March 1977 in
Saint-Laurent-du-Var
Saint-Laurent-du-Var (; Occitan: ''Sant Laurenç de Var'', Italian: ''San Lorenzo del Varo'') is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera.
History
The town was founded in the ...
) was a French
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
and
screenwriter, founder of the
Série noire
''Série noire'' is a French publishing imprint, founded in 1945 by Marcel Duhamel. It has released a collection of crime fiction of the hardboiled detective thrillers variety published by Gallimard.
Anglo-American literature forms the bulk o ...
publishing imprint.
He played The Foreman in
Jean Renoir's 1936 ''
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
''The Crime of Monsieur Lange'' (; French: ''Le Crime de Monsieur Lange'') is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative. Imbued with the spirit of the communist/socialist Popular Front, which would score a major political v ...
''.
In 1953 he was credited as
screenplay writer
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
for ''
This Man Is Dangerous'', a French
film adaptation of
Peter Cheyney
Reginald Evelyn Peter Southouse-Cheyney (22 February 1896 – 26 June 1951) was a British crime fiction writer who flourished between 1936 and 1951. Cheyney is perhaps best known for his short stories and novels about agent/detective Lemmy C ...
's novel of the same name.
He translated and published
Jim Thompson's 1964 pulp novel ''
Pop. 1280'' as ''1275 Âmes'' ("souls") in French in 1966. Thereafter, the book was transposed to French colonial Africa in
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier (25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
Life and career
Tavernier was born in Lyon, France, the son of Geneviève (née Dumond) and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, s ...
's film ''
Coup de Torchon'' (''Clean Slate'') in 1981. He also translated (with
Maurice-Edgar Coindreau)
John Steinbeck's ''
The Grapes of Wrath
''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award
and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Priz ...
.'' Coindreau in an interview credited Duhamel with the bulk of the translation, noting that he himself had translated only about sixty pages of it.
Selected filmography
* ''
Ciboulette'' (1933)
* ''
Moutonnet
''Moutonnet'' is a 1936 French comedy film directed by René Sti and starring Noël-Noël, Lucien Rozenberg and Michel Simon.Crisp p.408
Cast
* Noël-Noël as Moutonnet et Mérac
* Lucien Rozenberg as Dumonthal
* Michel Simon as Frècheville ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Crossroads'' (1938)
* ''
The Emigrant'' (1940)
* ''
Tobias Is an Angel'' (1940)
* ''
Remorques'' (1941)
* ''
Strange Inheritance'' (1943)
* ''
This Man Is Dangerous'' (1953)
* ''
Interpol Against X'' (1960)
References
External links
*
1900 births
1977 deaths
Male actors from Paris
French male film actors
20th-century French male actors
20th-century French screenwriters
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