Francis Veber

Francis Veber

Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writer or director or both, have been remade as English-language Hollywood films: Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (as The Man with One Red Shoe), L'emmerdeur (as Buddy Buddy), La Cage aux Folles (as The Birdcage), Le Jouet (as The Toy), Les Compères (as Fathers' Day), La chèvre (as Pure Luck), Les Fugitifs (as Three Fugitives), Le dîner de cons (as Dinner for Schmucks) and La Doublure (as The Valet). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Veber has received more than 211,165 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Francis Veber is the 322nd most popular film director (up from 350th in 2019), the 1,851st most popular biography from France (up from 2,011th in 2019) and the 41st most popular French Film Director.