Pierre Granier-Deferre (27 July 1927 – 16 November 2007) was a French film director and screenwriter
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Pierre Granier-Deferre | |
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Born | 2 July 1927 Paris, France |
Died | 16 November 2007 (aged 80) |
Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
Spouse(s) | Annie Fratellini, Susan Hampshire |
Children | 6, including Denys Granier-Deferre |
His 1971 film Le Chat (The Cat) won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival.[1] His 1964 film The Adventures of Salavin won the Silver Shell for Best Actor at the 12th San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Granier-Deferre married Annie Fratellini, who starred in his film La Métamorphose des cloportes. They had one daughter, Valerie.[citation needed]
He had two children with his second wife, Susan Hampshire, an English actress: a son, Christopher, a producer/director, and a daughter, Victoria, who died shortly after birth. Granier-Deferre is also the father of Denys Granier-Deferre, a director/actor, whose mother is Denise Leve.[citation needed]
He is also the father of Célia (an actress) and Marie (a stuntwoman) by Isabel Garcia de Herreros (a film editor).[citation needed]
[D] = Director; [W] = Writer
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