FILM DIRECTOR

Yves Allégret

1907 - 1987

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Yves Allégret (13 October 1905 – 31 January 1987) was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yves Allégret has received more than 134,539 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Yves Allégret is the 452nd most popular film director (up from 482nd in 2019), the 2,544th most popular biography from France (up from 2,619th in 2019) and the 67th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Yves Allégret ranks 452 out of 2,041. Before him are Václav Vorlíček, Paweł Pawlikowski, Anton Corbijn, Ken Russell, Nick Castle, and Philippe Garrel. After him are Gérard Oury, Maya Deren, Umberto Lenzi, Jacques Deray, Delbert Mann, and Glauber Rocha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Yves Allégret ranks 125. Before him are Sabahattin Ali, Roger Peyrefitte, Marcel Bezençon, Dixie Dean, Heinz Brandt, and Bruno Munari. After him are William Steig, August Eigruber, Enrique Líster, Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Theodor Wisch, and Anthony Blunt. Among people deceased in 1987, Yves Allégret ranks 90. Before him are Anatoli Papanov, Lorne Greene, J. P. Guilford, Konstantinos Tsatsos, Alfred Bester, and Alejandro Scopelli. After him are Morton Feldman, Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Renato Guttuso, Zeca Afonso, Mary Astor, and R. Budd Dwyer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Yves Allégret ranks 2,544 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Louis (1723), Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722), Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire (1802), Philippe Garrel (1948), and Jacques Laffitte (1767). After him are Georges Cadoudal (1771), Mathieu Amalric (1965), Charles Rogier (1800), Eustache Le Sueur (1616), Guillaume Dubois (1656), and Pierre Fournier (1906).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Yves Allégret ranks 67. Before him are Ariane Mnouchkine (1939), Jacques Tourneur (1904), Louis Feuillade (1873), Bertrand Blier (1939), René Laloux (1929), and Philippe Garrel (1948). After him are Gérard Oury (1919), Jacques Deray (1929), Nadine Trintignant (1934), André Cayatte (1909), André Hunebelle (1896), and Louis Delluc (1890).

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Filmography

A Day in the Country
Director
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
May 21o 19467.312 / 10
Such a Pretty Little Beach
Director
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
Jan 19o 19496.7 / 10
The Proud and the Beautiful
Director
Nelly arrives with her sick husband in a remote town in Mexico. But the hot weather does not help the sick husband and he ends up dying of meningitis. In this sudden and painful way, Nelly, who realizes that she has lost her tickets and money, ends up alone and lost in this foreign country. The only help she gets comes from an alcoholic named Georges, who she will end up discovering is a French expatriate who has not managed to recover from the tragic death of his wife.
Nov 25o 19536.6 / 10