FILM DIRECTOR

Claude Chabrol

1930 - 2010

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Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (French: [klod ʃabʁɔl]; 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 and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Chabrol has received more than 731,459 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Claude Chabrol is the 63rd most popular film director (up from 64th in 2019), the 544th most popular biography from France (down from 523rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Film Director.

Claude Chabrol is most famous for his films such as "The Wages of Fear" and "Le Beau Serge."

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Claude Chabrol ranks 63 out of 2,041. Before him are Brian De Palma, Aki Kaurismäki, Werner Herzog, Abbas Kiarostami, Stephen Hillenburg, and Jacques Tati. After him are Sergei Parajanov, Robert Zemeckis, Éric Rohmer, David Cronenberg, Chuck Jones, and Theo Angelopoulos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Claude Chabrol ranks 28. Before him are Philippe Noiret, Tu Youyou, Richard Harris, Ion Iliescu, Maximilian Schell, and Carlos Menem. After him are Niki de Saint Phalle, Silvana Mangano, Harold Pinter, Johan Galtung, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Hugh Everett III. Among people deceased in 2010, Claude Chabrol ranks 11. Before him are Gloria Stuart, Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, Benoit Mandelbrot, Bobby Farrell, and Dennis Hopper. After him are Éric Rohmer, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Georges Charpak, Ali Hassan al-Majid, and Maurice Allais.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Chabrol ranks 544 out of 6,770. Before him are Héloïse (1101), Baldwin I, Latin Emperor (1172), Jacques Tati (1907), Jacques Monod (1910), Marius Petipa (1818), and Theuderic I (485). After him are Lothair of France (941), Étienne de La Boétie (1530), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Michel Piccoli (1925), Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814), and Éric Rohmer (1920).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Claude Chabrol ranks 8. Before him are François Truffaut (1932), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Georges Méliès (1861), Roger Vadim (1928), Luc Besson (1959), and Jacques Tati (1907). After him are Éric Rohmer (1920), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Alain Resnais (1922), William Wyler (1902), Robert Bresson (1901), and René Clair (1898).

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Filmography

La Ceremonie
Director
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Aug 30o 19957.274 / 10
Torment
Director
Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.
Feb 16o 19946.8 / 10
The Butcher
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An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Feb 27o 19707.1 / 10