FILM DIRECTOR

Michel Deville

1931 - 2023

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Michel Deville (13 April 1931 – 16 February 2023) was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Deville has received more than 60,858 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Deville is the 635th most popular film director (up from 752nd in 2019), the 3,319th most popular biography from France (up from 3,523rd in 2019) and the 90th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Michel Deville ranks 635 out of 2,041. Before him are Robert Mulligan, Roger Spottiswoode, Giovanni Pastrone, Les Kurbas, James Mangold, and Larry Clark. After him are Segundo de Chomón, Im Kwon-taek, Gianfranco Parolini, Renato Castellani, John Cromwell, and Juraj Herz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Michel Deville ranks 234. Before him are León Febres Cordero, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Janosch, Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, Tab Hunter, and Ryuzo Hiraki. After him are Georgy Grechko, David Cooper, Duško Gojković, Allen Klein, Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi III, and Adrianus Johannes Simonis. Among people deceased in 2023, Michel Deville ranks 272. Before him are Mariya Pisareva, The Iron Sheik, Edgar Schein, Jerónimo Saavedra, Heinrich Messner, and Gennady Zhidko. After him are George Pell, Francisco J. Ayala, Duško Gojković, Paul Johnson, Raoul Servais, and Terry Dischinger.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Deville ranks 3,319 out of 6,770. Before him are Prince Dimitri Romanov (1926), Louis Majorelle (1859), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Michel Barnier (1951), André Gobert (1890), and José Giovanni (1923). After him are Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825), Roger de La Fresnaye (1885), Sébastien Faure (1858), Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755), Bernard Picart (1673), and Claude Abbes (1927).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Michel Deville ranks 90. Before him are Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Albert Lamorisse (1922), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Robert Enrico (1931), Jean Rollin (1938), and Georges Franju (1912). After him are Jean-Pierre Mocky (1933), Bruno Nuytten (1945), Gérard Krawczyk (1953), Claude Pinoteau (1925), Pierre Granier-Deferre (1927), and Jacques Rozier (1926).

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Filmography

Death in a French Garden
Director
A wealthy wife's affair with her daughter's guitar tutor is threatened when the tutor is attacked and rescued by a hired killer, leading him to suspect their secret is out.
Feb 13o 19856.13 / 10
Dossier 51
Director
A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
Aug 30o 19786.5 / 10
Love at the Top
Director
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent.
Mar 13o 19746.2 / 10