- Known For
- Writing
- Born
- June 22, 1923
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- April 24, 2004
José Giovanni
José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques, overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. In his films as well as his novels, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world, he often championed the underworld but was always careful to hide his own links with the Nazi occupiers of France during World War II. Of Corsican descent, Joseph Damiani received a good education, studying at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the Lycée…
Filmography
movieLino Ventura, la part intime
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieTwo Men in Town
2014 · Screenplay
movieThe Second Wind
2007 · Dialogue, Novel
movieClaude Sautet or the Invisible Magic
2003 · Self
movieAprès le trou
2002 · Original Story, Dialogue
movieMichel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002 · Self
movieThe Repentant
2002
movieMy Father Saved My Life
2001 · Director, Writer
tvVivement dimanche
1998 · Self
movieCrime à l'altimètre
1996 · Director, Writer
movieL'Irlandaise
1991 · Director
movieMy Friend the Traitor
1988 · Director
movieAmong Wolves
1985 · Director, Writer
movieThe Ruffian
1983 · Director, Writer, Novel
tvChamps-Elysées
1982 · Self
movieUne robe noire pour un tueur
1981 · Writer, Director
movieThe Sewers of Paradise
1979 · Director, Writer
tvThe Old Fox
1977 · Director, Writer
movieBoomerang
1976 · Director, Writer
tv30 millions d'amis
1976 · Self
movieThe Gypsy
1975 · Director, Novel, Screenplay
tvLes Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 · Self
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieTwo Men in Town
1973 · Director, Screenplay, Dialogue
movieThe Pariah
1972 · Director, Writer, Novel, Author
movieWhere Did Tom Go?
1971 · Writer, Director
movieOne Way Ticket
1971 · Director, Screenplay
movieLast Known Address
1970 · Director, Writer
movieThe Sicilian Clan
1969 · Screenplay, Dialogue
movieHo !
1968 · Novel
movieBirds of Prey
1968 · Director, Writer
movieLaw of Survival
1967 · Director, Writer, Novel
movieThe Last Adventure
1967 · Screenplay, Novel
movieLe Deuxième Souffle
1966 · Writer, Novel
movieTo Skin a Spy
1966 · Writer
movieThe Man from Marrakech
1966 · Writer
movieThe Wise Guys
1965 · Dialogue, Novel
movieSymphony for a Massacre
1963 · Moreau, Writer, Dialogue
movieRififi in Tokyo
1963 · Adaptation, Dialogue
movieA Man Named Rocca
1961 · Dialogue, Novel
movieThe Big Risk
1960 · Novel, Adaptation, Dialogue
movieLe Trou
1960 · Novel, Screenplay, Dialogue