- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- May 30, 1908
- Place of Birth
- Calais, France
- Died
- October 2, 1980
Louis Daquin
Louis Daquin is a French director and screenwriter, born May 30, 19081 in Calais and died October 2, 1980 in Paris, in a family of small traders. Law graduate and graduate of HEC, after having been a journalist, advertising editor at the Renault factories, and having tried his hand at theatrical writing, Louis Daquin, Louis Léon Auguste Daquin of his full name, became assistant director in 1932, he worked notably with Fedor Ozep, Pierre Chenal, Julien Duvivier, Abel Gance and especially Jean Grémillon. He produced his first film in 1938 with the French version of Gerhard Lamprecht's film Le Joueur. He made several feature films during the Occupation, while he was engaged in the Resistance with the French Communist Party, on whose behalf he shot a short film after the Liberation. He also wrote in 1941 a detective novel, The Enigma of Pelham, under the pseudonym of Lewis MacDakin. He held…
Filmography
movieLe Parti du cinéma
2021 · Self (voice) (archive footage)
L'Agression
movieL'Agression
1973 · Viel homme
Léa in Winter
movieLéa in Winter
1971
movieThe Blockhead Fair
1963 · Director
movieThe Opportunists
1960 · Director, Writer
movieThe Thistles of The Bărăgan
1959 · Director
movieParis mange son pain
1958 · Self
movieBel Ami
1955 · Director, Writer
movieSkipper Next to God
1951 · Director
movieThe Perfume of the Lady in Black
1949 · Director
movieThe Mark of the Day
1949 · Miner (uncredited), Director, Writer
La Bataille de la vie
movieLa Bataille de la vie
1949 · Director
movieThe Bouquinquant Brothers
1948 · Director, Writer
movieLa Grande lutte des mineurs
1948 · Director
movieHomeland
1946 · Director, Screenplay
Nous continuons la France
movieNous continuons la France
1946 · Director
movieFirst in Line
1944 · Director
movieAutour d'un Film de Montagne
1944 · Self
movieAdieu Léonard
1943 · (uncredited)
movieMadame et le mort
1943 · Director
movieLe Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943 · Director
moviePortrait of Innocence
1941 · Director, Writer
movieStormy Waters
1941 · Assistant Director
movieNightclub Hostess
1939 · Assistant Director
movieLe Joueur
1938 · Director
movieLady Killer
1937 · Assistant Director
movieThe Man from Nowhere
1937 · le concierge de l'hôtel, (non crédité)
movieThe Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937 · Producer