FILM DIRECTOR

Jacques Deray

1929 - 2003

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Jacques Deray (born Jacques Desrayaud, February 19, 1929 – August 9, 2003) was a French film director and screenwriter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Deray has received more than 118,984 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jacques Deray is the 456th most popular film director (up from 468th in 2019), the 2,576th most popular biography from France (down from 2,536th in 2019) and the 69th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jacques Deray ranks 456 out of 2,041. Before him are Nick Castle, Philippe Garrel, Yves Allégret, Gérard Oury, Maya Deren, and Umberto Lenzi. After him are Delbert Mann, Glauber Rocha, Lung Chien, John Lasseter, Yoshiyuki Tomino, and Hiroshi Teshigahara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Jacques Deray ranks 164. Before him are Shakuntala Devi, Amitai Etzioni, Peter Sculthorpe, René Laloux, Vic Morrow, and Camilo Torres Restrepo. After him are Richard F. Gordon Jr., Claude Rich, Zeca Afonso, Charles Tilly, Anne Meara, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Among people deceased in 2003, Jacques Deray ranks 99. Before him are Maurice Pialat, Massimo Girotti, John Ritter, Johanna Budwig, Robert Brown, and William Steig. After him are Marie Trintignant, Anita Mui, Martha Scott, Khieu Ponnary, Jaba Ioseliani, and Neil Postman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Deray ranks 2,576 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Loup Chrétien (1938), Abraham Bosse (1604), Léon Boëllmann (1862), Charles Plumier (1646), Honoré III, Prince of Monaco (1720), and Leodegar (616). After him are Pascal Quignard (1948), Étienne de Silhouette (1709), Eugène-Henri Gravelotte (1876), Marie Trintignant (1962), Claudine Guérin de Tencin (1682), and Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (1760).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jacques Deray ranks 69. Before him are Louis Feuillade (1873), Bertrand Blier (1939), René Laloux (1929), Philippe Garrel (1948), Yves Allégret (1907), and Gérard Oury (1919). After him are Nadine Trintignant (1934), André Cayatte (1909), André Hunebelle (1896), Louis Delluc (1890), Pierre Woodman (1963), and Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944).

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Filmography

The Swimming Pool
Director
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.
Jan 31o 19697.024 / 10
Borsalino
Director
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
May 19o 19706.879 / 10
The Outsider
Director
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
Oct 26o 19836.9 / 10