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Jean-Pierre Melville

Jean-Pierre Melville

Birthday: 1917-10-20 | Place of Birth: Paris, France

Jean-Pierre Melville, born Jean-Pierre Grumbach (October 20, 1917 – August 2, 1973), was a French filmmaker. While with the French Resistance during World War II, he adopted the pseudonym Melville as a tribute to his favorite American author, Herman Melville. He kept it as his stage name once the war was over. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre Melville, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Delon Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs

as    Self (archive footage)

2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï

as    (archives)

2017
Belmondo, le magnifique

as    Self (archive footage)

2011
Melville-Delon: Honor and Night

as    Self (archive footage)

2010
Breathless

as    Parvulesco the Writer

1962
Fire and Ice

as    Un membre de l'organisation (uncredited)

1959
Two Men in Manhattan

as    Moreau

1946
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown

as    Narrator (uncredited)