Paul Gégauff (10 August 1922 – 24 December 1983) was a French screenwriter. He collaborated with director
Claude Chabrol
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on 14 films. His screenplays include ''
Plein Soleil'', for which he and director
René Clement received an
Edgar Award
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from the
Mystery Writers of America
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It presents the E ...
, ''
Les Biches'', ''
This Man Must Die'', and the autobiographical ''
Une partie de plaisir''.
His first marriage to actress
Danièle Gégauff ended in divorce. They had a daughter, actress and singer Clémence Gégauff. Paul Gégauff died after being stabbed by his second wife, Coco Ducados, on Christmas Eve 1983.
Chabrol once said of Gégauff: "When I want cruelty, I go off and look for Gégauff. Paul is very good at gingering things up...He can make a character look absolutely ridiculous and hateful in two seconds flat."
Filmography
* Journal d'un scélérat (1950)
*
Le Signe du lion (1959)
*
Les Cousins (1959)
*
À double tour
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(1959) (writer)
*
Plein soleil (1960)
*
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
*
Les Godelureaux (1961)
*
L'oeil du malin (1962)
*
Ophélia (1963)
* Les grands chemins (1963)
* Le gros coup (1964)
*
Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964)
* L'autre femme (1964)
* Le Reflux (1965) (also directed)
*
Le Scandale (1967)
*
Diaboliquement vôtre (1967)
*
Les Biches (1968)
* Delphine (1969)
*
La femme écarlate (1969)
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More (1969)
*
This Man Must Die (1969)
*
Qui? (1970)
*
Les Novices (1970)
*
Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
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La Vallée (1972)
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Dr. Popaul (1972)
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La Rivale (1974)
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Une partie de plaisir (1975)
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Les Magiciens (1976)
* Brigade mondaine: La secte de Marrakech (1979)
* Historien om en moder (1979)
* Pigen fra havet (1980)
* Neon (1981)
* Le système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume (1981)
* Les folies d'Élodie (1981)
*
Frankenstein 90 (1984)
*
Ave Maria
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(1984)
*
Oriana (1985)
References
External links
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1922 births
1983 deaths
Writers from Haut-Rhin
French male screenwriters
20th-century French screenwriters
Edgar Award winners
French people murdered abroad
People murdered in Norway
Deaths by stabbing in Norway
20th-century French male writers
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