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Jacques Becker (September 15, 1906 – February 21, 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.

Becker was born in Paris, in an upper class background. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir. Part of the Comité de libération du cinéma français, during the German occupation of France in World War II, the Nazis held him in prison for a year.

He married actress Françoise Fabian. Their son Jean Becker also became a film director.

Jacques Becker died at the age of fifty-three in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.

Filmography

Director

• Tête de turc (1935)
• Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié (1935 short) (co-director)
• Cristobal's Gold (1940) (some scenes)
• Dernier atout (1942)
• It Happened at the Inn (1943)
• Paris Frills (1945)
• Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
• Rendez-vous in July (1949)
• Édouard et Caroline (1951)
• Casque d'or (1952)
• Rue de l'Estrapade (1953)
• Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954)
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
• The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
• Les Amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19) (1958)
• Le Trou (1960)

Assistant Director

• Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique (1931)
• Allô... Allô... (1931 short)
• Night at the Crossroads (1932)
• Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
• Madame Bovary (1933) (uncredited)
• Partie de campagne (1936 short)
• La vie est à nous (1936)
• Les bas-fonds (1936)
• La Grande illusion (1937)
• La Marseillaise (1938)
• The Mondesir Heir (1940)

External links

• Jacques Becker at the Internet Movie Database
• They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?

Persondata
NAME	Becker, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Screenwriter, Film director
DATE OF BIRTH	September 15, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris  France
DATE OF DEATH	February 21, 1960
PLACE OF DEATH	Paris  France